Flags and shields for 54mm knight

Slow progress this week on the painting front.  Too many other things needed to be done so I’ve only clocked up a few hours this week.  Not enough time to improve my skill level and I really noticed that my colour blending was really out compared to a few weeks ago.  Practice it or lose it..

Start of a banner

For the shield and banner I went for a chevron pattern with the blue on the outside and the white in the middle.  To get a good line I used my airbrush and some masking tape to get a nice clean line.  However I’m just using normal old masking tape.  Not good.  You need to rip it on and off the desk a few times to remove some of the stickiness.  I didn’t and pulled off all the paint and undercoat back to bare metal.  Sigh.  Undercoat again and try again.

I’m happy with the shape of the chevron on the banner so now need to clean up the blending as it’s way too dramatic and you can see the lines between colours.  I did much better on the helmet front previously which is annoying.

Nope - start again time

For the shield after seeing the pictures I’m going to start again.  The chevron is too wide and there is some lumpy undercoat going on there.  So I will sand some areas back, respray the blue and make the white chevron narrower.  I’m finding shading a bit flat area much harder than the small areas.  I found this doing blue man with his long straight legs.  That took me a number of times (each time pretty much starting from scratch) before I got into the blend groove.  Rounded and folded shapes I find easier to shade.  Plus the shape itself helps out.






On the side I have started underpainting the two hills I purchased at Cancon this year.  I do a grass green base coat and then flock over the top.  However with the hills from Fernvale Scenics they suck up paint like a black hole.  These hills have had four coats of paint.  Not sure if it's the flexible resin or all the pores in the resin but paint just disappears on them.  These are now green enough for a layering of scatter material and static grass.

Roving over the hills we go