Well colour me Norman

[paintpig]

Three bases worth of infantry being wip’d into shape

batch 1 just about there

batch2 close

batch3 getting there

Milites showing off cause they can

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[Mike]

ooooh those are a bit tasty.

[kyoteblue]

Wrong size/scale for me, but damn fine painting !!!

[paintpig]

Cheers chaps, it is about time I posted up some of the work that is pestering my painting table.

 

kyoteblue wrote:

Wrong size/scale for me, but damn fine painting !!!

No 15th Guards Motorized dismounted Norman Knights Division in 15mm?

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[Lagartija Mike]

Great work on the shield and helms! Did you ever finish your Great Heathen Army?

[kyoteblue]

LOL.

[paintpig]

Lagartija Mike wrote:

Great work on the shield and helms! Did you ever finish your Great Heathen Army?

Ongoing, I have a shed load of Normans (2nd hand), I’m painting these up to sell so I have some jingle in my pocket (dont do much commission work any more). There are always a handful of Saxons on the edge of the table for a quick daub while waiting for paint to dry on the Norman thuggery.

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[Rod Robertson]

Paintpig:

Those are lovely Norman foot and knights you have painted there. I really like the skin tones and shadowing that you have created on the faces. Beautiful work that, so well done. Also as others have pointed out fine shields and armour/helmets.  Thank you for posting these and please post more. I can learn a lot from studying your work.

Cheers and good gaming.

Rod Robertson.

[paintpig]

Rod Robertson wrote:

Paintpig:

Those are lovely Norman foot and knights you have painted there. I really like the skin tones and shadowing that you have created on the faces. Beautiful work that, so well done. Also as others have pointed out fine shields and armour/helmets. Thank you for posting these and please post more. I can learn a lot from studying your work.

Cheers Rod, not so brilliant but they will do. I didn’t have any contemporaries to learn painting from but I did study what I saw in the magazines (MW and Mil Mod in those days) and although I didn’t know exactly how the painters did it I had the images engraved in my mind, so when I lucked across something that gave the right outcome I knew straight away what was going on, so I heartily recommend your approach. Unfortunately I still experiment every time I sit down to paint which slows me down and is a bit of a pain, but I just cant help myself.

The faces here are a very basic technique which gives a good outcome without tons of layering or jiggery pokery, it really is dead simple. I will take some photos next time and try and write a short tute to accompany them.

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[Rod Robertson]

Paintpig:

I’ve been painting minis for years and am reasonably capable of doing a decent job but for faces. They are the bane of my hobby experience. This was not a difficult problem in 6mm and 15mm minis and 54mm and 70mm models/display miniatures but the evil War Pamda has lured me into the realm of 28mm gaming minis for Saga skirmish games and I am a bit intimidated about how to go about painting many figures’ faces well in a reasonable amount of time. I recently bought some Wargames Foundry fantasy Greeks for a Ray Harryhausen inspired game to run at my club. These figures include Dark-age Greeks, Centuars, Satyrs, Minotaurs, Manticores, Chimera, a Bronze Bull, Harpies, Skeletons (the Teeth of the Hydra),a Hydra, Soldiers of Colchis, Trojans, Amazons, etc. I have been  practicing on these poor, hapless figures in preparation for when the Saga armies arrive and can be prepared for painting. So far I am not pleased with the results of my facial forays, despite the Wargames Foundry and Mirliton figures being excellent castings with fine detail.

So, I really do appreciate it when I can see others’ work and especially when that work is of very good quality. Thus, thanks again for posting and I will look forward to your future posts.

Cheers and keep up the great work.

Rod Robertson.

[paintpig]

Here you go Rod, did it real quick without touch ups to show how basic my Table Top face painting is, the Pig Method

Face Painting: quick and dirty

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