Araby Guard unit

[Will Vale]

Hi folks,

As a wind-down from finishing the sniper I painted these Warmaster figures - quite a shift from 1/8 to 10mm scale They're really nice castings, full of life, and metal with all the pros and cons that entails. Mostly pros, I think, although it's a long time since I touched any metal minis and I keep missing the tags while cleaning them up. I undercoated them black and followed a scheme fairly close to the pics on GW's website because I liked the red and turquoise against the black, and these guys are supposed to be elite troops so black uniforms seem appropriate. For the rank and file I think I'll use the same turquoise with white uniforms maybe?

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Quite fiddly to paint as you can imagine, and my first go a a freehand banner looks nice until you get too close-up to it. Need to work on the consistency of my brush strokes. One huge plus is that I bought a Tamiya "pro" 00 brush and it has the most fantastic point, it's like painting with a laser or something. Very cool.

Obligatory "look at me, I'm small" size comparison picture

Now to clean up my work area and do some proper modelling. LCAC and Wessex both need work.

Cheers,

Will

[Bengalensis]

As always your painting skills impress me a lot. I almost can't believe they're that small. Well done.