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Saturday, 26 January 2013

28mm Norman Skirmishers

They've been up on Curt's blog for a couple of days now, so time to show them here - the 28mm Norman skirmishers from Conquest Games.


Ray and Fran have been submitting big loads, which means I'm lagging behind them a bit. I doubt I'll catch Ray, but I might be able to overhaul Fran on the table!

I didn't finish the 30YW horse or get any painting done yesterday - not long after I got to work I started feeling cold to the bone, achey and could feel a cough building. Not a cold for once, but my first "cough" for several years. I've managed to do the tufting & flocking on the 30YW horse today and a little bit of painting on some Swiss- just the undercoat and dry-brush of the metalwork and the flesh. Hopefully I'll be in a better state physically tomorrow and will be able to crack on with them.



28mm Normans from Conquest Games

These were great to paint up. I tried a couple of things different to the Vikings and Saxons:
1) Basing was a mix of ballast and modeling paste. This proved much easier to deal with than PVA/ballast.
2) I primed them black then gave a heavy dry-brush of Iraqi Sand and a light dry-brush of Pale Sand to provide some pre-highlighting.

The pre-highlighting seems to have worked quite well, much better than pre-shading (dark wash over white primer) that I've tried before.














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12 comments:

  1. Rodger26 January 2013 at 20:29

    Lovely looking Normans Tamsin!

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  2. David26 January 2013 at 20:33

    Excellent looking figures

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  3. Ian26 January 2013 at 20:41

    Yes I still like the work you did on these. Hope you get back in order so you can chase Fran down. Ray is right behind me, I know he will pass me at some point, it's just timing that's all

    Ian

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  4. Phyllion26 January 2013 at 21:10

    These came out really well, interesting technique.

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  5. Sean27 January 2013 at 14:32

    Really nice, I like the way you tied the units together with a little color on the quivers.

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  6. legatus hedlius27 January 2013 at 16:21

    These look great. I haven't seen the foot figures painted before. It looks like they have sorted out the issue with the boss-less kite shields on the mounted figures.

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  7. Phil27 January 2013 at 16:42

    Great looking figures...
    Phil.

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  8. Michael Awdry27 January 2013 at 18:55

    Nicely done Tamsin, love the uniformity of the quivers to help link the unit.

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  9. PanzerKaput27 January 2013 at 20:33

    Great looking figures there Tamsin

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  10. TamsinP27 January 2013 at 21:35

    Cheers guys!

    @ Sean and Michael - the quivers were done like that to make it easier to split them into two units of 6 for games.

    @ Legatus - these are the metal figures. I've checked my sprues of the plastic knights and they still have boss-less shields, but it seems to have been sorted out of the plastic infantry.

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  11. Anonymous28 January 2013 at 05:34

    Nice work!

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  12. el frances28 January 2013 at 10:59

    Nice painting ! I have played normans with and without archers and my opponents prefered without... 12 archers with 8 crossbowmen...

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