Rob Dean
Myzantine Dragon Guards |
Metal cleaning day |
Old Hinchliffes have a rough-and-ready sculpting style, which responds reasonable well to mass painting. I’m not too fond of the crossbowman casting, but I painted them anyway, but the peasants came out reasonable well for as little time as I put into them.
Five Myzantine crossbow skirmishers |
With eighteen peasants (including one stray Byzantine staff slinger), I decided that I would base two groups of six, and the rest as individuals. Most of the fantasy rules I’m using now are based around twelve figure units.
Hinchliffe Peasants |
Unfortunately for my budget, just as I was cleaning and priming the figures, somebody on the Old School Miniatures discussion on FaceBook posted a picture asking for identification of a Hinchliffe Robin Hood peasant woman.
I ended up deciding to thicken up the individually based peasants with a bunch of Robin Hood figures, since the castings are available from Hinds Figures. Mr. Hinds was very prompt with my order, so I now have a couple of dozen Robin Hood and Sheriff figures in hand, which will probably form a pair of matched war bands for Dragon Rampant, as well as serve as bandits for D&D.
Newly arrived Robin Hood range figures |
I have a dozen of those, including the principal characters, primed as of this morning, and hope to get started on them shortly.
As a bit of a digression, I had some time to paint at lunch this week, and finished a unit of Ral Partha/Iron Wind Metals orcs, from the recent Chaos Wars Kickstarter. They’d been sitting in my cupboard for a good while, so I was glad to clear them out. I’ve also primed another dozen goblins to follow up.
Chaos Wars orc warriors |
So it’s been a good week or two for painting…
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