[Log] Battle Masters Knights - Part 3

September 7, 2015 to September 14, 2015 - This past week I finished painting all 12 knights and their horses. This week, I will  put the final touche to complete them--gluing, basing, and sealing. As I wrapped up on painting these miniatures, I started preparing the next set of miniatures for painting--the adventurers from the the D&D Castle Ravenloft game.  Each separate projects will have their own logs.

Finished painting the knights and horses. Need to glue, base, and seal then I'm done!

Day 9 to 14 Painting 

Finished painting the remaining 10 knights (2 lords and 8 imperials).  Finished 4 by Day 10, and the last 6 by Day 14. The knights were all painted exactly the same. I tried to varied the unit through making the horses different

Day 15 to 16 Painting

The next two days were spent completing the horses.  There are 4 variations to horse skin color (palomino, chestnut, and 2 other brown variants), 3 variations to tail color (black, brown, and yellow), 2 variations to hoof colors (black and white), and a variety of white leg markings. That should slightly make the unit have subtle differences between individual models. One new method I tried to do is apply paint with two brushes--dab some paint onto the horse with one brush and the other brush draws the paint out to blend--on the horse skin. Not sure if I did it correctly, but I kind of like how it look than just trying to paint layers on.  Below, is a representation of the 4 horse skin final paint schemes:

Tau Sept Ochre base / Gryphonne Sepia wash / Tau Sept Ochre layer / Iyanden Darksun highlight

Calthan Brown base / Ogryn Flesh / Vermin Brown layer

Calthan Brown base / Devlan Mud wash / Bestial Brown layer

Khemri Brown base / Devlan Mud wash / Bestial Brown layer

The mouth section of horse were given a Badab Black wash to make it slightly different in color to the other skin portions of the horses.

I found it more fun to paint individual models than a unit of models; however, I have a lot more satisfaction seeing a bunch of models being finished!

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