Here's how I do some of my bigger figures.
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This is a tutorial for a less experienced friend. Hope someone else will find it useful.
http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/a-troopers-tale.html
Nice model!
:-bd =D> :-bd
Interesting tutorial, thanks :)
Very interesting tutorial. :-bd
Arrgghh! Sorry about the quality of the photos.
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This is what I did over the Easter weekend. Some later Normans for the Stephen/Matilda war. I used your technique and found it very useful. I'm still learning but I'm quite pleased with the results. Still need some trimming and base marking.
I'm doing this on a small scale. I've divided the figures into 6. These six "lots" I have organised as four forces - yellow, blue, black and red - with black and red being twice as big as yellow and blue. This means I can vary the forces easily enough: 1:1 (yellow&black vs red&blue) 2:1 (red vs the rest) or 5:1 (blue vs the rest).
Anyway, thanks Mr UK.
Those look really good, Nobby !
Especially like the photo of the bridges. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Good try but you really need to use a shorter static grass or a hair clipper.
I have my 1:150 lawn mower! :P
And pennants. I need pennants.
They look pretty good, trim the bits hanging over the base edges. The bridge looks really really good..
You wouldn t think they were done by the same guy who used cut up cereal boxes for bases a couple of years ago ;) Excellent progress
Golly fsn, being new here I thought you only did modern armor - nice!
And Jim - thanks for the painting tip - am adding to my ever increase list of stuff to do.
Quote from: d_Guy on 28 March 2016, 11:59:10 PM
Golly fsn, being new here I thought you only did modern armor - nice!
Like an over-thinned wash I cover a lot, just not very well.
Really like the bridge, Nobby! :-bd
Top work Nobby!
White over black is a very cool trick. I used it intuitively on the first miniatures I ever bought (Vespero's Vendetta for Warhammer). It gave them instant shading and made their bright red cloaks stand out a lot better.