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Argh!!!

 

A bit haphazard, but painting IS moving forward after a fashion.

Not the comedic sound of TV or cinematic pirates, but of frustration.  Tried a couple of horses yesterday using the Army Painter speed paints in my collection, and was not pleased with the results.  Blotchy, muddy-looking coats.  Blast!

That wasn't supposed to happen.  

After fooling with two, I decided that normal hobby acrylics would give a better result that I can live with, and chose a couple of Vallejo browns and a third from Army Painter.  The latter must contain less pigment because it required a couple of coats to get even coverage over the gray basecoat.

Should've listened to my inner painter ("Wait, Stokes!  Not so fast!"), saved the time, and frustration by sticking to the usual approach of many years.  And should not have been seduced by the Youtube videos of a professional painter.  Live and learn as the saying goes.

Where the speed paint did perform well was on several of the busbies.  Here, the Army Painter 'Ruddy Fur' settled nicely into the recesses of the castings and gave a reasonably good impression of fur once dried a short time later.

Which brings us to today, a chilly gray morning more like March or April than mid- to late June.

After a visit to the barbershop later this morning (The excitement never ends here in the Grand Duchy!), followed by a stop at the supermarket on the way home, I'll return to the painting table to finish the remaining headwear, the manes and tails of the two bays in the squadron, and do something for the trumpeter's horse.  And then, time permitting, apply flesh wash to faces and hand before a maroon undercoat on just about everything else. Further detailing and highlighting to follow down the road.

Somewhere in there will be a bit of real life too.  You know the drill.

-- Stokes

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