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Post by mottdon on Aug 16, 2020 10:34:13 GMT
Nice! Great work, and I love the model!
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Post by grandmasterwang on Aug 17, 2020 15:50:20 GMT
My Lady of the Lake. Model is from Reaper Minis. Excellent. She's great for the lady of the lake.
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Post by Naitsabes on Aug 17, 2020 15:56:20 GMT
why is the Lady chained up though?
It's a cool model and the paint job screams 'lake'. well done!
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Post by azknight on Aug 17, 2020 18:42:19 GMT
why is the Lady chained up though? It's a cool model and the paint job screams 'lake'. well done! Beats me. She's supposed to be a Banshee, but not sure why that requires chains. I tried to make the chains blend in with her dress, but the discerning eye will realize what they are. From the front she looks like she might be holding the grail behind her back. If I find the right sized chalice I will stick it in her hand. Otherwise she's just a fluff model for the battlefield. If they pray to her I put her in the corner. If they lose her blessing she disappears. It's an extra element of fun.
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Post by azknight on Oct 11, 2020 8:58:12 GMT
Finished this BSB of Bastonne back in August. It was my first attempt to make a banner with plasticard. It was fun. More photos of him at my blog
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Post by mottdon on Oct 11, 2020 10:20:38 GMT
Nice! How'd you like using the plasticard?
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Post by azknight on Oct 11, 2020 23:26:48 GMT
Nice! How'd you like using the plasticard? I think plasticard is a great solution for anyone wanting to make custom banners. Any intermediate level craftsman could do it. The shape warps when you put a heat gun to it, as you probably know. That helps create a flapping in the wind effect. The heat gun also wanted to make my lance go limp at the same time. As as soon as the plastic is ''soft'', gravity will do it's work, because it is semi-liquid. Soft plastic doesn't retain shape like soft putty does. But making corrections wasn't too hard. I eventually held the banner upside down using gravity as a third hand to keep the lance straight. Getting the banner to fold around the lance without melting the lance was a little challenging. To make it worse, I had a lance extension glued in the same area. You can see that the lance near the plasticard is not wonderfully cylindrical anymore. I would let the plastic be ''soft'' for only about 5 seconds and then let it cool off. Then I'd heat it again and make a correction, then cool it off again. It seemed that applying consistent heat to it would likely turn it into a puddle on the floor in a short time. But my heat gun is also hardware store/medium duty grade and not really a light duty/crafters grade. I never saw any bubbles or boils in the plastic. Once I got the shape I wanted, Plasticard took primer like a champ, as you would expect from our paints. I think my results on this first try were decent and encouraging. I hope to get better with it. I'm not sure what else I could do with plasticard besides banners. It would be nice to practice on other items to improve the method.
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Post by mottdon on Oct 11, 2020 23:55:03 GMT
Great explanation! I haven't ever used it, but I've been sorely tempted.
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Post by tileag on Oct 12, 2020 20:15:11 GMT
Loving these Brets, keep up the great work!
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Post by markdienekes on Oct 13, 2020 9:41:08 GMT
Nice work, great banner. Is that all free-hand heraldry?
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Post by grandmasterwang on Oct 13, 2020 14:12:33 GMT
The bsb is lovely. Vibrant red and yellow is eye catching.
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Post by Morvael on Oct 13, 2020 16:10:37 GMT
Cracking blog so far, keep it up! Always great to see brets being done
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Post by azknight on Oct 15, 2020 4:19:01 GMT
Nice work, great banner. Is that all free-hand heraldry? Partly free-hand. The big dragon was scanned into my computer from the Bretonnia book, then touched up in Adobe Illustrator and then printed on decal paper to the size I wanted. It's the same dragon I have on the horse and shield, but those are printed a little smaller. The Fleur de lis is a GW sticker. The rest is free hand. I took my inspiration for this banner from the Bayeux tapestry, which depicts the Battle of Hastings in a storyboard format. I though the banner of Bohemond de Bastonne, the Beastslayer, should have a similar feel. The dragon, the grail, and the fleur de lis reflect a bit of a story.
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Post by azknight on Oct 15, 2020 4:55:15 GMT
Thanks for the comments. Those who do Bretonnia will realize this is just a knight of the realm model, but painted extra baroque. I came to the game too late to get any sets of grail knights or questing knights before they became too pricey on eBay. Fancy painting is my plan for all my grail knights/paladins. By your reactions, it seems like this plan will work. Additionally, I decided to make some minor alterations to my questing knights and knights of the realm in order to distinguish them all from another, given I'm using the same kits for all types of horse-mounted Bretonnian knights. I need to paint 2 more knights of the realm and then I will post photos on what I've done with them. After that, I will post on the questing knights I recently finished and I hope everything will make sense. So stay tuned. I'm working a Dwarf unit now, but when I come back to Bretonnia there will be some epic knight units on display.
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Post by knoffles on Oct 24, 2020 5:11:19 GMT
Fantastic work mate and as ever I really appreciate the guide to how you did it. You have a great way of explaining it to allow people to try it out.
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