COMING at you like a gaily-coloured breeze/cinder block of pain is this week's primary offering: 'Sir Brut' from the snappily-titled 'Heroic Fighters of the Known World'set (more Goodwin goodness). My initial intention for the colour scheme was that it would be a snazzy blue/orange combo, using VGC Scrofulous Brown as the base colour for the orange. As can be seen from the pictures below it turned out to be more of a golden-yellow. So yeah, now he looks like he's stepping out to the grocers to pick up a tin of surstromming. Nevertheless I am generally happy with how he turned out and readers might also be pleased to note that he has a shield! Indeed it is now my intention to furnish all models with shields at the time of painting, a point on which I have previously been remiss when it comes to vintage models.
For the shield-backs I used a most helpful guide for painting wood grain which Blue in VT posted at the beginning of the week. Of course I modified it according to what paints I had available (VMC Leather Brown/VGC Earth/VMC Cork, as I recall) and am very happy with the results. Cheers Chris! I also went back to the orcs I painted last month and sorted them out with shields, the results of which are shown further down (on two of them, at least). How people like Thantsants can paint designs on those little half-moon shields is beyond me: I just opted for some simple geometric patterns and, again, am pretty happy with how they turned out.
The second portion of this post is terrain-orientated. A fortnight back I mentioned I was making some gaming boards using 2x2' sections of 20mm styrofoam. I've completed four of these and they fit neatly into a bubble wrap-lined TV storage box which can then be shoved under the bed, which is obviously much better than arsing about with unwieldy 2x6' sheets of mdf. Anyway, here're some pictures of the finished article. Not too exciting, I'll grant, but then they'll be covered in terrain most of the time.
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| Edges protected with gaffer tape. |
On the subject of terrain I also recently bought the Mini Monsters''Ancient Temple' set from Zealot Miniatures. I've had my eye on this for several years so was delighted when it promptly arrived. Below are some pictures of the assembled and painted temple, complete with mad wizard! An excellent and versatile scenic item that comes highly recommended.
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| Aygar peers into the reflecting pool. |
Starting next week: Trapdoor tutorials with pictures and everything. What's Trapdoor I hear you ask? Look hither, esteemed reader:
