I decided to dip back into painting ancients by finishing off my collection of 25mm Hinchliffe Indians. I have been toting these minis around for nigh unto forty years now and have only gotten some infantry painted and based. These chariot models have been doing service in a state of nakedness (based and primed but nary a spot of paint) for simply ages, it was time that they had their status upgraded. I sat myself down and started work, I kept an example of one of the painted figures from the army in hand so that I could make an effort to match the style of the existing troops. After three days of steady work I had my six chariots finished and I am rather pleased with them. The simplistic style of the minis argued for a simple approach to painting, much like my "toy soldier" approach that I used on my 3-D printed Swiss, so I stuck with bold colors applied in a blocky style.
OOUCH!
ReplyDeleteThey look just fine. Chariots are pain to assemble, etc., but they look so impressive on the tabletop!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words, These old soft-lead minis ARE a pain to try to build. Just trying to figure out what some of the twisted lumps were supposed to be is a challenge. The remaining items are in much better state
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