Friday, March 14, 2014

Look at me, another entry for the challenge.

I'm increasing my output, finally, but it's too little too late to reach my goal. Any how here's what I wrote to Curt.

I present to you Lord De La Warre of Treyine and his men. To create some interest in my red and white theme I broke it up into solid red, half red and white and quartered red and white. I figured that this would represent each of the knights and their retinues. As with the previous entry these are a mixture of Zvezda English Infantry of the 100 Years War, Miniart German Knights, Airfix Robin Hood and Strelets Military Order Warriors. They are all 1/72 (20mm) scale plastics.


All the same painting techniques, but this time only Vallejo matte varnish at the end. I feel like it dulled the metal a tad too much and it almost looks like NMM. Still flailing around, but why change how I work now. I'm just glad to get another batch done. It only took me the whole competition to do it.



There is nothing particularly special about the two footmen, I just hid them on the work bench and found them after I'd photographed the main group.


You can see the entry and a few more pictures on Curt's blog here.

I've painted myself into a corner, in as much as I have a lot of figures left to do for the final themed round plus my entry figure. Better get started.

12 comments:

  1. Very nice. I do like that you've used a somewhat muted red, rather than a brilliant scarlet. In my view that's much more appropriate for a medieval technology - no modern bright chemical pigments!

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    1. Thanks Hugh, I like the red too. It is called Red Iron Oxide and is made by Delta Ceramcoat. The washes and matte varnish also help mute things a lot.

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    2. Hah, I thought that I recognised it. I use that colour a lot myself :-) .

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    3. Great minds and all that :).

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  2. Excellent work, beautiful units, love the shields, so realistic!

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    1. Thanks Phil, I think the fact that I have trouble painting straight lines adds to the realism. I feel like medieval shield painters weren't super precise.

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  3. Great work Sean! I like these guys!

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    1. Thank you Rodger, I'm happy to return the favor as I always enjoy looking at what you post.

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  4. Good stuff, Sean. They're a cruel looking lot. I wouldn't want to run into those guys on a battlefield!

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    1. Thanks Prufrock, I need to get them on the battlefield today.

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