I've been working on these since May. Perhaps setting up 4 dozen plus mounted to paint all at once was a bit ambitious. Although 8 months for 54 mounted figures isn't so bad.
They were actually done a few days ago, but vomiting does impede the blogging, somewhat.
These are for a customer who has a large and ambitious 15mm Sudan project in the works. I've blogged about in previous instalments
here and
here.
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| Emirs with banners and drummers |
The figures are all Blue Moon and the banners are from
the Virtual Armchair General. The nifty oval bases were custom made for the customer by Litko.
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| Shades of camels |
Part of the delay was trying to figure out how to get different shades on the camels and horses, so they weren't so monotonous. I like my technique of using ink washes and dip to get a deep, shiny coat, but it doesn't give a lot of variation.
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| Massed camelry |
I also had my tin of Army Painter dip gel up beyond what I could save with mineral spirits. So I've switched to Minwax for the same effect. It's also considerably cheaper, so you can play with different shades.
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| Massed cavalry |
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An interesting and unusual subject, well represented!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful minis, massed camelry are my favourites!
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done and great little sculpts.
ReplyDeleteYes Blue Moon/Old Glory do do irregulars well.
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