bench update 28 October 2024

This is my country's Labour Day and as is traditional, the weather is poor. Which is great! Because my plan to just focus on this project was put into practice. 

These have now had a varnish/sepia wash layer to lock in most of the color. I may or may not have made a mistake by adding barbarian flesh after, not before. 

bench update 26 October

As long as you don't look closely, the checker effect on these Mongol heavies looks good

My main reference is mounted Steppe Archers from Osprey, but I've done some more art hunting and I think it's paid off. This week I added black or white to saddles and horse armor. It removes that "all brown" impression.

(This post was inadvertently put in the wrong blog twice, these are entries from the past 2 weeks.)