Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Dark Ages Fun: painting some Norman foot thugs

Well, with the cavalry waiting for some support I thought I had better get some infantry/dismounted together. They're finished but I couldn't be arsed taking more photo's until I have the shields and spears in place so we will have to make do with the nearly finished photo's.

I started painting the whole swag, 40 figures, in one go, I pretty quickly realised that was not going to work so then broke them down into three more manageable groups although the confusion had set in by then and to be honest I think they have taken me a lot longer to paint than if I had divided them in small batches straight from the off.

anyway here they are...

Ich





Ni




San



Chi (a few more photo's of the mounted thuggery)





as usual thanks for looking






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12 comments:

  1. Michael Awdry10 November 2015 at 06:36

    Tremendous looking troops.

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    1. PaintPig10 November 2015 at 17:00

      Cheers Michael thanks for stopping by and taking a look, not tremendous yet but close

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  2. Millsy10 November 2015 at 07:36

    Nice thugs :-)

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    1. PaintPig10 November 2015 at 17:02

      Thanks Michael I think everyone secretly likes a few thugs in their army, helps shift stubborn opposition

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  3. DeanM10 November 2015 at 09:24

    Lovely work on these tough looking troops, Dave.

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    1. PaintPig10 November 2015 at 17:05

      Maybe you could swing by and give them a few pointers on how to look suave and just a tad debonair in their armour Dean ;-)

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  4. Ray Rousell10 November 2015 at 21:27

    They're coming along very nicely indeed. Keep it up Dave!

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  5. Phil10 November 2015 at 23:45

    They look splendid, excellent job!

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    1. PaintPig11 November 2015 at 02:11

      Thanks for your comments Phil, always appreciated. By the way nice little potted history on 1866.

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    2. Phil19 January 2016 at 23:19

      Thanks Dave!

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  6. PaintPig11 November 2015 at 02:07

    Will do Ray, I'm having some fun painting these....... and then I realise I still have the shields and spears to do!

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  7. Rog19 January 2016 at 21:16

    Quite a bunch of sweet and tender hooligans... :) fantastic artwork, thanks for sharing! :)

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