July Painting Challenge: Day #28. . .

Perhaps the step I have most dreaded doing, but the whalebone trim atop the mitre caps is finished!  My venerable 000 sable 'spotter' well and truly helped here.  The end results are not perfect, but reasonably convincing en masse.  Most important, it's all done.

Inching along this warm Sunday afternoon, Day #28,  seeing to the white trim on the colored mitre cap bags, which, apparently, was stiffened with whale bones way back when.  The step went pretty quickly, and while I made a number of flubs, as expected given the rather fine lines sculpted onto this part of the figures, the mitres snapped into shape pretty quickly once either dark green, or dark yellow were trimmed in, to straighten up the white lines whereever things went all wiggly or sloppy. 

This particular step took about an hour, less time than anticipated.  Even with the more tedious and small items, sometimes paint goes on easily enough that you just keep going until everything is done.  It happens now and then.  And that was the case today.

Once The Young Master has been tucked in later this evening, I'll return to take care of the officers' sashes, gloves, and swords.

-- Stokes