Here’s six 28mm medium auxiliary cavalry for my EIR Romans. These are, again, from Warlord Games. The difference is that I was very unhappy with these castings. They are, without question, the worst models that I’ve gotten from them and I will not buy any more. The flash was unbelievable. There are large areas that are just formless lumps. The white metal spears are crap. I’ll be investing in a bunch of brass spears for all future uses.
Having said all of that, I’m pleased with how they look. I love playing with cavalry. I hate painting horses. I used this batch as an exercise in painting horses. I still have some things I’m not happy with; definitely room for improvement. The faces need work and I still need to figure out how I’m going to do the highlighting and depths on them, I didn’t get it right on these six.
I have another six of these to finish up and I’ll be done with my Romans, unless I strip the command models and re-prime them. It’s tempting, hmmm…
Lovely work Aaron (though it would have been nice to have a better depth of field to better see all six models). I too find cavalry a bit daunting but I always feel great when they get completed. Good to know about your troubles with Warlord castings. I find one of the unplanned byproducts of the Challenge is that it can be a great resource for getting information, samples and opinions of a wide range of products. Whiles these were real b@stards to clean-up I must say you did a wonderful job on them (I really like the cavalry mask on the standard-bearer) - well done.
This half-dozen cavalrymen will give Aaron 63 points, which includes a wee bit for the nice groundwork and shields.
Nice paint job
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DeleteAbsolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the enthusiasm Michael. Thank you.
DeleteA shame you don't like painting horses. I think you did a good job.
ReplyDeleteThank you. They are better than my last try, so progress in the right direction. If I keep this up I might be able to finish that Rohan army.
Deletegreat stuff horse's look mighty fine to me although you do seem to have missed the eyes on the officers horse. **TIP** if you do not like painting eye balls get a tooth pick dip the tip in you black paint and dab on the eye job done same size dot each time.
ReplyDeletePeace James
Thanks James; for both the tip and the correction. I'll fix the eyeless horse. I have a pile of tooth picks on the desk so I'll try that on the next bunch.
DeleteGreat job on these it reminds me that I have a few to paint myself
ReplyDeleteNothing like the challenge to get things moving off the queue. These lads had been sitting around for most of a year.
DeleteVery nice painting there Sir.
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Thank you Mr. Provost Marshal.
DeleteNice work Aaron :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Tamsin.
DeleteThey look really good.
ReplyDeleteI got a bunch of these in my lead stocks. Not looking forward to the flash of doom.
cheers
Hopefully yours are a better lot of castings. Thank you for the compliment.
DeleteVery nice indeed sir, especially given the issues with the figs...
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteAn excellent job on the Cav Aaron, keep it up!
ReplyDeleteYou've done a splendid job rescuing a mediocre bunch of casts and making them entirely battleworthy. Well done!
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the cavalry as they always look great, but painting them is a pain! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Thank you for the treat, I know you had issues but I can't see them in the finished figures
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ReplyDeleteVery well done! Cavalry most often is a real pain in the ass to paint.
ReplyDeleteReally nice work with these figures, sir. I like a lot the colours. I have also had problems with "Warlord Games" models, and I don´t like them. For Ancient, I´m buying the excellent models from "Aventine Miniatures"; they are FANTASTIC.
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