Just when you thought that you were safe...along comes yet another base of mounted knights/MAA! As my hand has been improving by resting from painting over the festive period I've since been trying very short sessions of 10-15 minutes once or twice a day. I was helped by the fact that I had started these three figures before Christmas struck, so its mainly been wielding the Brush of Doom on highlighting base colours. The figures are from Perry Miniatures, the Heraldic Banner from Freezywater Publications, and the base from Warbases! See what you make of these ~
I'm just left now with three mounted figures from Aly's kind recent gift: Richard III, his Standard Bearer Sir Percival Thirwall, and a Herald. These six pieces will take longer I fear as I'm starting them from scratch. As an added complication there is the matter of adequately suggesting the Royal Coat of Arms worn by the Herald! These may be a while then...
In the meantime I've been glancing through the Lead Pimplette as I must label it now, only to discover, well, not a great deal in truth. I guess I must have been rather fixated on the Wars of the Roses project! There is a unit of 12 Foundry Roosian Cossacks for the Crimean War project, assorted Eureka Miniatures for the FRW collection, some Aventine skirmishing Light Infantry for the Punic Wars, together with some Heavy Cavalry and a General. Nothing though is cleaned up and spray undercoated and I doubt the hand can handle the former at present, nor the winter weather the latter! Worse still, I don't really feel up to tackling any of those, but nor as I said do I have even a vague aspiration for anything else right now...
Looking good, another nifty addition to WotR project.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil! Going much slower now though on next 3.
DeleteNice painting once again, David.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ray!
DeleteAnother lovely base David and looking forward to Richard III. As to the future I can send you some of my mountain to paint if you want, How do Spanish Napoleonic Dragoons take your fancy ? If in doubt make some terrain is my motto 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, though I'll give your mountain a pass I think.
DeleteA fine addition David…
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot to be said for printed flags… I wouldn’t want to paint that one freehand 😁
All the best. Aly
Thank you Aly! I doubt I could manage to freehand paint any flags at present!
DeleteThe whole base is nice, but Rivers turning in his saddle, to consult / give orders, sets it off.
ReplyDeleteThank you Norm!
DeleteLovely work once again David!
ReplyDeleteAnd once more, thank you Christopher!
DeleteBeautiful work 👏
ReplyDeleteVery kind Michal, thank you!
DeleteLovely command base and very nicely posed as Norm says the Rivers figure turning around is a cracker!
ReplyDeleteThank you Donnie, though I take no credit for the figure design!
DeleteGreat work and composition as always David:)! Nice to know that with the Xmas break and short spells at the painting desk, you are able to do a bit each day, which must be nice.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks SteveJ! I was doing well in short sessions, then I cleaned up three figures! Big mistake, hand was not impressed!
DeleteI do hope your hand improves. Keeping the inspiration up can be a struggle, but we all seem to beat the malaise in the end. Another excellent vignette. Yours, Old Shakey Hands 😉
ReplyDeleteThank you George, much appreciated. Hand is less painful this morning but have a game with Phil soon, so no painting today will help I'm sure.
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