Wednesday, September 24, 2025

I'm Feeling Quite Cross Right Now, Updated!

 

twenty crosses on the knights, at least twenty crosses on the horses
what was I thinking?

       I have realized that trying to paint thirty-six cavalry at the same time is beyond me, thus I have chickened-out and I am concentrating my energies on getting the Hospitallers finished first, Things were going just fine until I discovered that the decals that I had planned on using had gotten damp (sometime between when I bought them twenty-plus years ago and the present) and were spoiled. Too stubborn to change my mind, too impatient to wait a couple of days for new decals and too stupid to realize the work I was getting myself into I asked myself "They're just crosses, how hard can it be?"

        It turns out that they are a LOT harder than I figured.

         Well, the shields were easier than the minis, mostly because they were large, mostly flat surfaces. I think that they turned out pretty well. Decals would have been FAR easier but probably too uniform to my tastes.

I removed the minis from the painting trees in an attempt to make it easier to paint the crosses

they turned out OK, I will hide the less attractive ones in the middle of the formation


 
based up and ready for ground effects

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