Tally ho!

Only a slight update for now. I still need to find where I left the legs (well, the three individual legs) and get them painted up and glued on, but I was just testing the paint scheme really.

Anyhow, the basic premise was to have the darker colours of the straps and tassles, with the darkness behind the gold as well, countered by the lightness of horse-skin and tails.

The colours for skin are Fortress Grey and Desert Yellow (not combined though). The straps/saddle are Scorched Brown, the hooves are Shadow Grey (although I'm still not 100% sure of it working...), tassles are Liche Pruple, the tail is Kommando Khaki (to match the spear-hafts, arrows and bows), the armour is Chaos Black with Burnsihed Gold on top and the silver armour (name has slipped my mind right now) is Chainmail.

I tried to make them fit the current paint scheme as much as possible, but feel uncertain about the overall effect. Having said that, it could be because I haven't yet added the riders and there may not be enough contrast, annoyingly. I was hoping to avoid having too much dark, since the cloth ont he warriors is all black and purple. May have to reconsider the horseflesh (as well as the hooves, which I'd usually do in Fortress Grey, but that had become a skin colour).

8 is company...

Howdy, y'all! Sorry for the delay, but was entertaining a Dutch friend for two weeks. Just sent him packing back to the Netherlands and during his flight back, managed to complete 10 more Easterlings in an hour (that's about 6 minutes each!).

I went for the simplest method I could, which was just to do a whole spure at once (still on the sprue, which allows me to get to hard to reach areas more easily and hold them still a little better too).

I managed to get four archers, four swordsmen and two spearmen completed, as well as tidying up another eight Easterlings and painting the bases of all 18! So, I managed to swell my completed (but still largely unbased) model-count by quite a lot.

All that's left (out of the ones that I own) are another company of eight spearmen, four more archers and three more swordsmen, as well as five katapharkts, although one of those needs to be stripped first.

P.S. As you may have noticed, one of the spearmen has some Chainmail missing on his shield on the diamond part), but I rectified that after taking the pictures! Here's a shot of the lot of the ones completed last night (including the ones with the slight tidy up and bases painted).