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| Six riders with javelins. |
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| Same pallet, different day. |
I painted two of the horses a different color at the urging of several commenters. I used to have a link to a fantastic horse color chart that laid out all of the various colour combinations. It is now, sadly, defunct so I started to google horses and got distracted looking at 15mm tanks and ended up just doing whatever I wanted.
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| Big men on little horses. |
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| Not so bad en masse and charging. |
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| Good and not so good. |
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| Ignore the WIP-iness of the horse on the left. |
You couldn't have been too distracted by 15mm tanks - at least none of the horses are sporting German Late War Ambush camo!
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Don't be too hard on yourself, you've done great work in making a rather mediocre set of sculpts look top shelf!
Thanks Evan. The only reason they don't is that Ambush camo scares me more than these horses.
DeleteLike Evan said, the quality of these sculpts are not as good as the horse you previously painted, but your brushwork makes the very best of them.
ReplyDeleteYou did a splendid job on that horse and it's saddle btw.
Thank you Anne. I appreciate that.
DeleteLooking at the pictures blown up and you can see the detail is soft in places but you have done a great job.
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I'm trying to look on the bright side and use it to improve my skills. I sometimes feel like I'm painting by numbers with minis.
DeleteI feel your pain with the sculpts, only average at best, but great job making them work.
ReplyDeleteTea, I agree, though you may be doing them a favor. They will be fine as filler behind better sculpts.
DeleteYou have done a fantastic painting work with those not too good miniatures. I´m very hard too with the miniatures I bought because I´m sure that when the better the quality, the greater the enjoyment (I expect to have written this sentence well...).
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Juan, your thoughts are crystal clear. I find the models I enjoy the most are well detailed but not with too much clutter. These fit the second part at least.
DeleteDespite the tank distraction I do think these have come out well. Anyway back to talking about TANKS.......
ReplyDeleteEhmm. Tanks. There may be more coming down the pike if I can get over my painters block with them.
DeleteMore beautiful Celts for us to drool over Aaron. Please stop (JK) :)
ReplyDeleteTamsin, there is only one more batch in The Plan. I'm so far ahead of my plan though that I may slip some more in, especially since I recently received some as a gift from another blogger.
DeleteGotta love Celts .. Well I do am one of sorts!
ReplyDeleteI have been enjoying telling the boys about their head hunting ancestors as I paint these.
DeleteNice painting on these soft sculpts. Good work. Cheers
ReplyDeleteThank you The.
DeleteThose are pretty average models as you say but you've done a bang up job on them mate.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael. Now to move on to something more satisfying.
DeleteI have really enjoyed all of your Celts so far. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteThank you Adam. I delayed painting them for ages because so many people complain about them. I've really been enjoying them.
DeleteThey look very fine,Aaron! The trousers( or would it be trews?) are excellent, the chang up in the horse coloring really helps separate them from the riders.
ReplyDeleteThanks David. I have to agree about the different colors. I also painted the saddle blankets a different shade. I'll definitely have to go back and hit the other batch because it really does make them very much less samey.
DeleteNice painting! Lovely use of colour.
ReplyDeleteThey look good to me. On the subject of painting horses, if I can find it, I'll send you a picture chart of horse painting I buried on a hard drive around here somewhere.
ReplyDeleteThat would be great Sean. Thank you.
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