As had hoped, I have now been able to complete a historical group of figures, although there are plenty of Fantasy figures still in the pipeline and about to be finished!
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| A bag of Gallowglas found hiding at the bottom of a drawer |
I have returned with a small group of 10 x 28mm Irish Gallowglas miniatures, I missed these a couple of weeks back when I did a similar batch - the downside of having a metal pile kept in a drawer - you never find everything all at once...
I believe that these figures are from Reiver Miniatures and there are three poses, two in chain mail shirts and one in a padded coat.
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| The completed group of figures |
I was going to do some head swaps to add a little variety, but I forgot and undercoated them before I remembered what I had planned, instead I moved one two handed swords from an archer figure and added to one of the figures running with a lochinbar axe..
So as usual I undercoated these figures in white before using a generic 'Linen' colour to block in all the padded shirts - and under shirts for those in mail. 'Oily Steel' was used for the chainmail, helmets and sword blades before applying flesh colour to hands and legs and faces.
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| Three archers, I swapped out the big double handed sword on the middle figure |
Various shades of hair were added and then leather straps, scabbards and quivers before going round all over again to correct any smudges and 'over painting'.
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| ... and added it to the back of one of the charging figures, for dramatic effect! |
Again I used coloured inks from Army Painter to add definition - flesh tone on skin, Strong Tone on all other areas apart form the metal work, which had Dark Tone applied. All washes were watered done by about 50% to avoid staining the underlying paint.
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| Possibly my favourite pose of the three, a mailed warrior with a double handed sword, ready to strike. |
Matt varnish was applied when the inks were dry and then basing was done using fine sand and electrostatic grass.
