This week involved with working on my 54mm knight with most of the work being on the white surcoat. I started with a base coat of 50% VGC Ghost grey / 50% flat white. Thus was shaded down adding mid grey to the base coat colour. My first shading was a bit rough so I had to reglaze back with the base coat a number of times to try and return some of the smoothness to the transitions. After that I tried to remember that after every new layers of shading I needed to do a glaze in the base coat again. On the lower parts of the surcoat I also did some very light glazes of VGC Earth and VGC Khaki to represent dirt/mud.
The cloak was base coat painted in VMC Sky Blue which is a lovely light blue. Just what I was after.
Work and home life conspired and painting days were in short supply so that was pretty much all that got done. I did get a new (old) 54mm figure off eBay. I picked up the “Samurai with Naginata” / MAA84 from the Osprey Men at Arms series. The lure of the multiple bright colours and wooden lacquer effects of samurai armour was too much and the price was very good. The figure itself is well cast and minimal flash. I do think that the body of the figure is a bit on the flat side. I bit like figures from the early 1980s.
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