Anyway back to the point. Having basically finished the ACW, even I was getting bored of the same layouts on the photos, I purchased loads of figs over Christmas. These are the 1st I've painted up and they are 8 Mtd Carolingian Warriors by Gripping Beast. They were a bargain in the North Star sale (£9 I think) even with the massive hands.
They are OK and helped me to tweak with the flesh shading, still a little orange but picking out cheek bones and noses works well, lighting on photo still dodgy though, Shields are obviously hand done and I quite like a couple of them. I've also just noticed that the horse above is missing an eye.
Overall they are a little rushed as I like to start and finish a unit in a couple of days (note to self paint smaller units). Moving forward I'm going to slow down my rate to improve further and play with the painting styles. I want to tweak my style to better incorporate the things I've learnt and try to emulate some of the cool things done by others. At the moment I still paint solid blocks of colour and then shade later. Want to play with washes to build up the colour, at moment I only do this on the legs of bay horses.
Nice. Always great to see a Dark Age saga bunch here. Good job on the shield designs. cheers
ReplyDeletethanks, really need to sort out the photography though
DeleteNice figures Martin and great work on the shields :)
ReplyDeletecheers, good to change to something completely different
DeleteThey look very good, Martin! I like the sheilds very much! Probably my favorite bit about our hobby is seeing what others paint and how they do it. But I really love just splashing the color on and seeing where it goes! ;)
ReplyDeleteta. It is good just to play about with paint. Not a great opportunity with the ACW but with dark ages you can almost do what you will
DeleteLovely shields. And I agree with you about Monty Python.
ReplyDeleteTa. Sometimes at work they have a video and curry night and it is a battle to make sure they don't so the Life of Brian.
DeleteFor me Python was always meh! But when I was at school there was no way to admit that without being set apon and ending up in a fight! These really have come out very well indeed. Very nicely done.
ReplyDeletethanks
DeleteLike has been said, like those shields and eight in a week that's great going especially as they look so good
ReplyDeleteIan
Ta, problem was it was 8 in 2 evenings. Need to slow down to get better then get faster
DeleteVery nice painting work!
ReplyDeleteThanks, want to get to a style somewhere between me now and you now. Give me 10 years
DeleteNice brushwork Martin. The swirly shield is a cracker. It reminds me of boiled sweets... :-)
ReplyDeleteMmmm. boiled sweets...
DeleteCheers