Not my best work ever but about as good as it gets these days of shaky hands, blurry eyes etc.
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The 16thC is too soon for clan tartans (a largely Victorian 'thing' according to some scholars) or belted plaids/kilts, a 17thC new fashion, and the figures reflect this. Its a pity they have the anatomy and stoutness of fantasy Dwarves but they look just fine for the tabletop once painted.
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| Hmm, the guy with the receding hairline has a distinct family resemblance. Coincidence? |
So, that's 3 down, and about a dozen to go.
(The blog post title translates roughly into 'Let's go 'lift' some cows', an unofficial cry of a certain clan whose name I happen to bear, though I have never rustled any cattle, not even my neighbours Highland cows. Yet)
Very dramatic figures and will look good on the tabletop .
ReplyDeleteBut will they be lucky?
DeleteThese look great, they have painted up splendidly! Looking forward to seeing the battle..
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My 16thC forces don't come out often so I plan on painting another couple of stands before they fight,
DeleteThey look great to me
ReplyDeleteAfter all, they are fighting men, intended for the table top, not HM palace guards in a glass cabinet.
DeleteThey look excellent. My fingers are now very arthritic and at times there's a slight tremor so I sympathise with your problems. I've changed my technique and now paint in eg belts than paint the jacket colour up to the belt. It still feels odd but is helping.
ReplyDeleteI've always 'dressed' them from the skin outwards with belts etc last. its what both of my main 'how to' books recommended. The hard part is holding the figures a bit farther away to get my best focus.
DeleteI don't disagree, it's just that some times I now end up with the belt colour overlapping onto the jacket that there's a lot of touching up to do. So now I'm trying out painting the belt first then painting the jacket up to the belt which I'm finding easier with my shaky hand. I'd just thought it might be of interest.
DeleteHistoricals with the lines reminiscent of fantasy (which are, in turn, derivative of historical medievals)--they look the best of both! Your painting is just fine (holds up under photography: there's a test!). I've read the history vs the myth of tartans and kilts as well. I do think, however, that it is also over-stated and a bit reductive. Napoleonic armies didn't slug it out across two miles of torn up turf and mud in their parade uniforms, but nobody kvetches about that. Bring on the tartans, I say!
ReplyDeleteOne of my main tartan painting guides are the 2 well worn kilts in my cupboard. At arms length in bright light you can pick out the various strips if you look carefully. At even 10 feet away, even in sunshine, its hard to get more than an impression of the pattern. At 20 feet......
DeleteVery nice indeed Ross…
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the history of tartan is closer to fantasy than it is to history.
Highlanders and Islanders would have probably looked very like the Irish but plaids/checkered designs were certainly worn in Scotland and but not really as a kilt.
This article on the Sobieski Stuart’s is worth a read…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobieski_Stuarts
All the best. Aly
Ah yes, nothing like a name like Sobieski to make one think of the Scotland highlands. Mind you, without Sir Walter Scott and Queen Victoria, I doubt that the mania would have spread so far so fast, or lasted so long.
DeleteThey look quite nice, but I do hope you will paint some cows for them to lift (count as a short range, low trajectory catapult when thrown? )
ReplyDeleteThose are looking good. How many are you planning to do?
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