I've been pretty busy here. I decided I needed to finish one of the two orders I have on right now so I focussed on the Normans. I really enjoyed painting these horses, contrary to my usual reticance to paint horses. I focussed on overall look rather than painting 11 specifically different models with lot's of tiny details. I think the result looks really nice and even though it's a simple approach the outcome was great. I'll be moving back to the Romans now for a bit but I've just had a meeting with a potential new client who I'm doing some test models for and he is a diorama builder, so that's something a bit different and cool. 

This last month I've been dealing with bits and bobs around the house, viewing new apartments and working on this Gangs of Rome order. Gangs of Rome is a really interesting game that takes place cleverly on the streets of Rome as opposed to the regiments of it's armies. As such the models are varied and unique. I've painted gangs of rome once before but it was a long time ago. This order is larger and more mixed with more civilian miniatures (where the fun happens). Below are some of the models I've painted so far. Sadly I didn't see my clients emails for a week or two (for some reason they randomly started going into my spam folder, which is funny as I was just beginning to think he was ignoring me too) so there are some corrections to do but I thought I'd share these as they are so far. Consider these W.I.P

For some personal gratification I picked up, when noticing it's release, the new games workshop fantasy weekly mag and thank the lords of vermin, they started with Skaven. It's been a long time (they were my first ever miniatures) and these are wonderful rats. Below is my W.I.P of the warlock engineer. ​

I know I boast a lot about the speed of my painting (when I sit down at the desk - ADHD be damned) but this guy flowed out in about 90 minutes. I cannot tell you why but I really enjoy painting Ratmen but it might be because people expect them to be messy instead of neat and tidy and shiny.

I’ve been working away on these Normans. I think they’re wonderful sculpts and they take paint really well with the individual details guiding the brush nicely. I have experimented on the armour a bit by painting it dark silver first then washing it with a dark blue wash before highlighting up into a brighter silver. This was a bit too bright through so when I got to the blacklining stages I went back through and wash some of the crevices and shadows with a bit of black too and I think it really pops now. ​

I’ve taken a little liberty with the straps and leathers as I thought it looked a bit silly for them to just blend into the leather armour models, so the straps are a slightly lighter hue to destinguish them.

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