The banners have been bugging me for a while, but yesterday I decided to try to paint a purple rose on one to see how it looked. So I practiced painting roses on a piece of paper a few times before I took brush to banner. After getting a so-so rose, I added a trailing fine down the length of the banner. I then added a black border to help make the banner pop and to tie it back into the overall miniature.
I then spent the rest of the hour mostly doing some touch up work on this and another bear rider. I think I enjoy focusing in on one model at a time rather than a whole troop since I can invest more TLC and in the course of one sitting see much more progress. This is something I should consider for my next project. I would like to finish the bear knights and the knights of Moor. But, I might hold off on the halberdiers for a while and instead do something fun. Maybe a dragon! Or a Hellpit Abomination!
I also picked up some of the fancy alcohol based metallic paints at the local game store yesterday. I may try my hand at them sometime. I had bought some silver primer to try to use on the high elf army, but its performance on my steam tank was less than ideal. The steam tank was okay with a slightly bumpy finish but that would not do with the higher detailed elves. Also, I found that thinned paint did not actually like to stick to it. So, hopefully the alcohol based paint will give me a nice silver to launch into painting the elves. The gold might be good for the Tomb Kings that I started to collect recently.
So, what army to tackle next? Hmmm….
-Skaven, I would like to make one or two Hellpit Abominations for this army and paint a unit of Storm Vermin. Also, I would like to add newer versions of the clan rats to its hordes and there are several models that are 90% finished that I should just wrap up. But, ugh… so many rats…
-Empire, should I finish enough stuff to make an army? I think I need to walk away for a while. Ugh… so many halberdiers…
-High Elves, they are mostly really nice models and a low model count army! If I do the all cavalry list with a dragon and some other monsters I could have a solid army with just a few dozen models. And as as a reward for painting it I could buy the Cool Mini Or Not Giant Owl to use as the Frost Phoenix (its only sightly more than the GW model and much cooler with no giant snow flakes on it… really giant snow flakes?) Tempting…
https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/elf-sorceress-on-giant-owl.html
-Ogres, I want to do the asian themed force, but the bits I bought are just too small for the most part. If I could find 54mm scale samurai bits I would be a happy camper, but no luck. But again, a very low model count army that I could bang out very fast, especially if I got the air brush running.
-Tomb Kings, I like the look and gold and bone could be painted quickly in theory.
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