Saturday Afternoon Painting with The Young Master. . .

Still a long way to go, but the are starting to look a little better. Young Paul and I feel that fleshtone and horseflesh should be next.

Finally managed to get a little painting time in with The Young Master late this Saturday afternoon (I cannot compete with TV following the evening meal it seems). We managed to get two coats of grass green on the bases in fairly short order, and I cleaned up a few things for Paul on the 24 figures he takes care of on the right after he spun off into left field and another activity in another area of the house.

I'll be back to the painting bench this evening after his bedtime to work a bit on my own nine Austrian horse grenadiers and regimental staff. Lots of small details now, but some of these go pretty quickly, so I feel like things are in the home stretch at this point.

-- Stokes

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The Good Soldier Svjek said…

His figures are coming on well , will look smart wnen they are finished .

3:56 AM

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