Tuesday, 18 February 2025

ByronM - Two Foxy Fellows [14 points]

After last weeks big submission I am down to a two model submission this week, made up of 2 foxy brothers for Burrows & Badgers.  These two should make a nice addition to my outlaw (rogue) faction once I have enough games in with the faction to earn enough pennies to hire them.

These two brothers will be called Todd and Robin, some pretty obvious childhood references, but hey you can't always be cryptic with references.  I painted them up to match each other, so they are in mainly the same colours, and in dark forest green cloaks and jackets to help hide in the woods as they lay in wait for the Royalists to come by so they can rob their carriages.

Nothing fancy about the paint jobs on these two, I just tried to keep nice clean colours to match the brighter than normal cartoony style I am going for with my Burrows & Badgers figures to make sure they pop from table top viewing distance.  To that end, I am not doing any blending or subtle work on any of these figures, they get a base coat of the normal colour, a wash to add shadows, then a highlight with the base colour again and an extra highlight when needed.  That's it, plain and simple, but I think it really works with these figures as while they have detail, they tend to be a bit simplistic with fine details (I think to keep a cartoony overall look, but I could be wrong).


These guys are pretty chunky for 28mm scale, at almost 50mm tall and on 50mm bases! So they size well with the Badger I painted from a few weeks ago.

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Wonderful additions to this delightful project Byron. Your subtle colours and shading really suits them beautifully - they look like illustrations right out of Beatrix Potter!

Given their chunky yet sly disposition, I've scored them as 40mm figs

- Paul

17 comments:

  1. These look great Byron. They have a kids' storybook feel to them - even with the pistols! Well done.

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  2. Excellent work, Byron! Perfect colour composition

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  3. Fantastic painting ! I really like the realistic shading you achieved on the trench coats especially.

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  4. Wonderful painting on these.

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  5. I do like these! Fantastic Mr Foxes.

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  6. Splendid looking pair of foxy fellows!
    Best Iain

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  7. Lovely painting on such characterful sculpts

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  8. Lovely indeed Byron. Great project villainous adds.

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  9. Terrific work Byron. Love the green and tan tones.

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  10. Excellent painted foxes. Always nice to see such figures!

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  11. Nicem I like the faces. Very real.

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