Medieval figures completed (pics)

As always Mike .... fantastic work on these figures !!!!

Wow....amazing work, Mike!

Regards, Dan

Excellent painting ! Thanks for sharing.

No way you are getting any criticisms from me MIke. Those are absolutley fantastic. If they are like your previous knights, I am postive that the pics are not even doing them justice.

Mike those figures look awesome! The hand painting on the sheilds is beautiful. Makes me want to try my hand at a figure but then again I better not.

Thanks guys, THey were fun. The nice thing is it cleared the way for two Napoleonic figures I've been waiting to sink my teeth into. Both nounted and 120mm so I get to do some horses next time.

You should give it a shot Woody, Not as hard as it looks.

QUOTE: Originally posted by renarts You should give it a shot Woody, Not as hard as it looks.

Something about figures has alway intimadated me. I never liked to paint the pilot figures because the effect didn't look real to me. I guess I've trained myself to think I can't or at least shouldn't do them.

WOW!!! Awesome!!!!

I always like to look at beautyful figures, and these are very beautyful.

QUOTE: Originally posted by monrad WOW!!! Awesome!!!!

I dont know what else to say, except perhaps: WOW!!! Awesome!!!!

mike criticism you want criticism you get. not enough pics. fantastic job my friend.

joe

Glad to see them again, Mike!
Beautiful work!

Magnificent, Mike. You never fail to deliver an explosive blow.

Once again I must to the Master.

Great work Mike your fiqures are impressive. Can't waoit to see your Napoleonic Fiqures.

Thanks for sharing

Masterfully done, thanks for the pics.

Man you do great stuff. I been looking at some Verlinden figures maybe I will try one soon. You should make a website, be what Swanny is to us plane builder, as to figure builders.

Wow....
Really, what else needs to be said about this. Amazing!

Mike you are the true master of the medievil , as always stellar work , the sheild painting is just incredible ! Great job man ! Ps the ground work is pretty kool too !

Another medieval masterpiece, Mike. Great work, as usual. Can't wait to see the Napoleonics!

great work.............as usual!!!!!!

Wow, that is sweet!! Awesome! Magnificent! I'm jealous.

Wow - absolutely fantastic!

great,beautiful,fantastic words are not enough if you put your ear against the pc screen you can hear them clashing , yelling ,screaming ect. thats one piece of fine work

Wow, again Mike! I can't say enough good stuff about your figures. I love them, wish I had the skills for them that you do bro!

Eric

Nice looking figures. I have three I keep meaning to do but my nerves get into the way. Never done figures before so I cleaned up the flash and primed them but have not begun painting them yet. They are now a year old. Alittle bird keeps saying just try it and then the nerves kick in saying it is too difficult just keep watching for more tips on how.

C'mon Snoopy, you can do it.
You've already taken the first steps. The next is to start laying in the basic colors. Put a base of flesh on the skin areas, the shirt, belt, pants and shoes are next. Once you have a good base color on those than it will be time to move on to the next step. Baby steps first. Don't expect Bill Horan style figure painting the first shot out of the box. I think if you start 1 figure at a time and get through one, you'll get hooked and then not be able to get enough.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If you do an absolutely horrible job, they make this stuff called thinner.... start over and do it again. I have a figure that I did almost 28 years ago. I look at it and wonder what I was thinking of. But you know....I'm still very proud of that very first figure.

If your at a loss, Kalmbach has an excellent book available. How To Paint Realistic Military Figures. There are others but this is a very good reference. And I'm sure that with the number of magpies on this forum, they'd love to impart all the adivice you'll ever need.

Nice work, especially on the heraldry.

RENARTS or anyone else,
I think I will start one this weekend. Just a question real quick though, if I have one with primer and it has been sitting around collecting dust, will it still okay after rinsing it with spoay water wash?

There's the spirit!

If it hasn't been handled, I would go ahead, wipe it down (a paint brush would be sufficient) with some soapy water, rinse it and let it dry. If it's been handled alot since priming, I'd wash it and maybe give it a thin coat of primer.

What kind of primer do you use. I primed these with Testor's Model Master Enamel Primer. At the time I did not want to order Andrea's primier straight from andrea so I used Testors. Any preference when working with figures or is primer just that primer?