I worked a bit with the Baron and here he’s almost done.
It wasn’t entirely straightforward assembling him and the pegasus.
Here’s a pic of the entire army.
I either had to glue the baron in the saddle or keep the backrest off while painting, and I choose the latter.
The reins wasn’t easy to get right, and I’m not sure I did, but this will do.
Time for some decals. I’m doing a bit at the time. Those lines under the belly was a bit of a pain in the …
I still have a lot of stencils to do on the underside. Just letting these dry first.
Somehow I seem to have forgotten to take pics of the assembled archers.
I had done almost everything except their heads.
Instead I started with the men at arms.
One of the reasons was to figure what available heads I had to both them and the archers.
After sorting the heads, the archers got finished too.
Except for a few details like bags and stuff, the only thing left to build is the boss on the large pegasus.
This “little” beauty just arrived to my DHL sevice point.
My intention is to build it for LSP’s 25 anniversary.
So far I’ve mostly built WH40k stuff, but when TOW arrived, it intrigued me a bit, and I just had to get a box and try it out. I thought the Bretonnians looked more fun and since Ivanhoe and other films like that I’ve always liked that genre.
I started with the knights. All horses was made with two halves and a head. I figured out that by combining the halves I could get four different poses.
I had to check with a friend i the other two poses was valid, which they was, so I continued.
There was a few things I needed to sort when working with the knights as they could be built as either knights of the realm or knight errants. Both are showed in the instructions but the army list only speaks of knights of the realm. So I decided to go with that.
Each unit consists of one champion, one standard bearer, one musician and three knights.
I had a hard time trying to figure which head should go on which one. The only simple one was the musicians as I think it would be hard to blow the horn with a helmet on.
I also built the three pegasus knights.
As can be seen I’ve also started on the archers.
After doing a little bit more to the weathering, I’ll consider this build done!
I’m quite happy with how it turned out! Only one problem left, fitting it in one of my cabinets.
It’s quite large, but after moving around a few kits, I managed to get it in place.
Time for some weathering. First I used Flory’s grime wash on the entire plane.
Then a good part of it was viped off.
Next step was to use oils, in this case black, to create some streaks.
I’m no specialist at weathering, and I’m still learning, by looking at pick and other builds.
I’ll do some wear on the propeller and a few other places. Other than that I’m not sure what more to do. Other colours perhaps?
After assembling the landing gears, I left the plane to rest.
The day after, I assembled more or less everything else. The closed canopy was removed, and parts of the paint was touched up. The front glass was glued and the pilot put in place.
Lastly the glass on the bottom of the wing was glued and also the drop tank.
Except for some weathering, there’s only one thing left to do. The glass pieces on the wing tips needs to be glued in place, but first I need to sort their colours.
After checking the net it seems like the left is red and the right green.
This is just a quick update on the decals.
Where is it easiest to hide something black? On something black!
I thought the black area on the nose looked a bit strange, and on closer examination, I realized that it was the missing part of the skull decal.
After using Microset on the decal, letting it soak, I could move the missing piece in place.
There was just a little bit missing that I sorted with a little black paint later.
Happy for having that problem solved.
I collected two parcels today. One with neccessary colours and a Corvette ’62.
The other one contained a truck kit.
I just might start building any of the vehicles anyday soon.
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