This week sees a return to my outstanding mounted knights. The good news, for me at least, is I am on the downward slope and in a few weeks time they will all be done and work will begin on the final phase of this diorama. Until then though it’s one knight at a time.
To be honest I can’t think of much to say about this one and will probably have even less to say as I paint and subsequently post details of the others. Essentially it’s now just a case of picking a colour scheme, preferably something I haven’t done before, and then getting the job done. On this occasion I went for two shades of blue.
Photo’s of my latest offering below.
TIM
The Imperfect Modeller 
Nicely done, Dave! 🙂 I like the blue, I like the horse colour and it all goes together well!
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Thanks John. 🙂
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Great work on the knight Dave, the chestnut horse works well against the blue
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Thanks Dave. I’m trying to make each one a little different where I can. 🙂
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Looking good there. Really nice work
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Chees mate, glad you like him. 🙂
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“One knight at a time, sweet David, that’s all I’m asking of you!”…..Bugger I’m going to have Lena Martel in my head for the rest of the day now! 🙄
Lovely work as always mate.
Cheers Roger.
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Cheers Roger and sorry for the song in your head. I know how irritating that can be! 😂
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Tidy mate. Can’t wait to see the finished diorama
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Thanks IRO. It’s really getting there now but still a few more weeks of knights to go first.
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Brilliant
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Looks like you used a darker skin tone? Hard to tell if that’s lighting or not. Looks good though! I like the horse, you do horses so well. I also really like the ‘simple’ shield design. Choosing color schemes you haven’t used before can be such a chore, so I hear ya. Hey, once you finish this, I hear there is some guy with a few Zulu warriors that need painting! ;D
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I think it is most likely caused by the photo lighting as I didn’t deviate from my normal methods. Playing around with the various colours and coming up with something different is a challenge but bit by bit I’m getting there. As for Zulus I think we might all need to lend a hand!
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Is this going to end up being one of your biggest dioramas to date? It feels like you’ve been teasing us for ages!
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The teasing isn’t intentional I promise. To many other things stealing my time this summer which has slowed me down unfortunately. As to the diorama itself this will be the biggest I’ve ever done. It measures 3 feet wide by 1 foot deep and 1 foot high. The good news is I have space for this one but the bad news is I don’t have space for much else!
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Wow that is big. Definitely moist to see this!
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Did you really mean that!!BTH!
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Just reread that and see how it could sound bad. I was thinking more of salivating at the mouth. Like Homer, from the Simpsons, with donuts 😂
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Nice work TIM sounds like the home stretch is in sight. I really like the 2 blues on this model.
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Thanks mate, glad you like it. Yes, very much on the home straight now. A few more weeks of work still to go but that feels like nothing given how much time I’ve spent on it already!
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You’ll have to think about what is next soon then 😀
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Great shading work on the rider and the horse. And I hope your golf game is going well!
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Glad you like it Mark. As for the golf, had a good round by my standards today which made for a change!
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Excellent! Keeps you coming back for more doesn’t it Dave!
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Another good ‘um mate! I think it’s just the angle that the photo has been taken but the horse looks wryly amused by something in the second to last photo.
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Haha, yes he does! I think he’s just happy that he got painted at last as he’s been hanging around undercoated for slong!
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Another cracker mate – how many more to go now?
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By the look of it I’ve got three more mounted knights to go and then I can get to work on the basing again and bring this project to an end for my benefit and everyone else’s!
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It’ll be worth it mate, it’s gonna look ace 😎
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There’s no doubt that the knight himself doesn’t stick out in a crowd but it was a great chance to show off your horse painting skills at the same time. He should look great in the procession that all of us are dying to see 🙂 Keep at it and you’ll be on to a new project soon, I reckon!
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Cheers mate. A few weeks to go on this one but I’m already starting to wonder what to do next. Half the problem is space so I reckon it might be single figures for a while.
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The good thing about single figures is that you’ll get plenty of variety in your projects, if nothing else.
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I’m not normally a blues man but you have pulled this one of mate, wow thats a big one Dave and I know what you mean about space Fi wants me to sell some at an Xmas stall but I’m not sure at the moment!
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Space, the biggest problem with the hobby. Maybe Fi is right but you’ll only end up filling it all up again! 😂😂
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😅😅😅👍🏻
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