From TeemuL: Won every battle, lost the war [The Inconstant] (49 points)

I have passed 6 circles in Abyss and now I'm ready to enter the Paradise. I guess we are supposed to start from the first circle, so here's my offer for the Inconstant. I present Robb Stark, the King in the North, the Young Wolf from The Song of Ice and Fire saga. He rebelled against the king, won every battle, but lost the war. He betrothed to a woman, married another woman and got killed (with pretty much every one else in his company). Kind of tried his best, but fell a bit short.

I had several Lannister characters in my Abyss entries, now couple of Starks in Paradise. These are from the Stark Heroes 3 box, which is now completely painted. I'm not planning to play any games with these, so I could have used more effort to paint them "shelf standard", but the models are a combination of being quite large and lack in details, so the paint job is "artistic" I'd say. Basically a basecoat, wash and strong highlights, from a certain point of view they have somekind of athmosphere on them. I hope. :)

The Inconstant himself

Robb is accompanied here by two of the Stark bannermen, Maege Mormont and Brynden Tully on horse. I used rather limited palette on all of these to tie them together, browns, blacks, and greys. Similar colours I used the other models. They are not an uniformed army, they are all characters, but they are all from the harsh north and wear practical clothes.

Maege

Brynden

There is one difference between these and the earlier ones, these new guys have self-made tufts on their bases! Yes. I have been using ready made tufts for couple of years, they look good and I'd like to use them more, but they are rather expensive. Especially, when it looks better when there are more of them. At some point I heard that you can made them by yourself and then I got inspired by minionee (is that a word, I hope you understand?) DaveD and asked him about the DIY tufts. Couple of emails later I placed an order on WWScenics and ordered a started kit. It arrived earlier this week and I started experimenting with it. So far so good, not all tufts are perfect, but the percentage is quite good. And this will get cheap in the long run, I can create different sizes, colours, shapes, heights etc, so I'm quite interested in this. Plus I don't need to create just tufts, I can create dioramas and/or glue static grass directly on the bases, too.

Stark Heroes 3, previously painted and tufted on the right

These fellows are in 40mm scale and one is mounted, so the point total should be 2*7+15=29 and then 20 bonus points for the Inconstant location. Until next time!

Welcome to the Paradise

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Hi Teemu

Welcome to Paradise!

Great interpretation of Inconstant, Robb Stark definitely fits the bill! Nice paint job on the Stark Heros, they do look practical and dressed appropriately (no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices)

Super work on your home made tufts! 

49 points to your scoreboard

- Sarah