Finally done on the lads with shields. Sad to see it's taken me a couple of weeks, although that's as much down to real life as the shields themselves. These didn't work out quite as I'd planned - the concept is that they take shields from their fallen enemies, daub them with the crossed arrows sign, and off they go. At least three things let me down though - insufficient preparation on the shields making them messy and hard to paint, some poor choice of colours (too dark in tone) and not really having the hang of how to shade a big flat shape. More practice needed!
They've not come out too badly though - with just the underlying colours on it was all looking like it'd go horribly wrong, but actually the arrows ties them together quite well and gives a good impression of an irregular unit.
Anyway, just the newly painted shielded chaps -
The whole unit together. Well, sort of - another 9 or so to add another day, but not just yet. Three of these I painted in my teens, with the champion just having his skin re-done this time around, and him and 45-degree-chap having their shields updated to the new look -
Right, November's challenge is to do the basis, plus some terrain for the next OGG get-together...!
Paul / Grumdril