Sunday 27 January 2019

King's Lifeguard Of Foot

With a couple more ECW games planned for February I was inspired to paint up another regiment. This time I went with the King's Lifeguard as I had already done up an Ensign.
The Ensign and 3 of the figures are from Warlord Games plastic Pike and Shotte kit, flag from Wargames Designs. Although the flag lacks the intensity of the Flags of War products someone on a forum said that it was a actually more realistic as flags are made of slightly translucent fabric (silk?) so their colours are generally not opaque.
The majority of the figures are Warlord's Armoured Pikemen set, which is one of my favourite sets of theirs. Great sculpting and well cast; I found them very easy to paint up. I did sneak a Perry figure into the mix though.

All that is needed now is a scenic base and some musketeers.




8 comments:

  1. Wonderful looking unit, excellent job!

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  2. Thank you Phil- they were a pleasure to paint.

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  3. That is very fine work! The King would be quite proud.

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  4. It looks like it will be a sharp looking game.

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  5. Lovely work, and I particularly like the shade of red you have used.

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  6. Thank you Lawerence. The red is a bit tedious but quite simple. I base coat with GW's orange; second coat with Army Painter red (which is pretty weak on it's own); wash with red ink; then just a bit more AP red on the tops of the folds. On the one hand the red doesn't have a lot of depth but it does end up being smooth and solid.

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    1. Thanks for that. I am still searching for a red I'm happy with and the closest I have come is the Foundry scarlet triad, but that is too scarlet for some purposes. I'll have to give your method a go.

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    2. If you don't have a solid orange to base coat with you can also use a rich pink such as GW's Ratskin Flesh.

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