bench update 17 November 2024

After a short vacation I'm back and the Mongol mounted are nearly done painting. I had an idea about highlights on the leather armor while adding a white-yellow highlight yesterday. But it will involve dry brushing and sometimes that backfires.

bench update 03 November 2024

Good progress yesterday! I have that "these are pretty close to finished" excitement. I have some more color decisions to make though. 

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.)

bench update 22 September 2024

Today I squeezed in just enough time to one-highlight the mounts, and used the same color for lances. It's a mix of ochre, beasty brown, and light tan.

bench update 15 September 2024

As I mentioned I've been distracted by a different project, which is near complete. For the first time in 40 years I have a full size wargame table.

bench update 08 September 2024

Managed to get dark grey and black (not eyes) down. Doesn't look as though the plan to paint around the harness will work.

(The yoghurt container is where the cleaned up Scots are waiting)