Thursday, 27 February 2014

Lonesome Cowboy

So close to my goal of the month which is posting someyhing here every day, despite having some PC troubles. Only one more day to go.
Given that I am playing in a zombie game and that life expectancy in this sort of game is not what it might be, I thought it best to have a backup character. One more suited to surviving the day to day that fighting his way through a hoard of zeds.

I was looking through my unpainted lead pile and found this one which I thought would be perfect so I thought I would do a work in progress post. Because of one mistake early one,  have really struggled to get the colour on the right arm to look right so it is now on about five coats of paint.


I looked at this figure, especially the mustache, and though Sam Elliot in Tombstone. So figured he would do. He strikes me as the ideal zombie hunter but I may be able to use him in a range of other ways.
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6 comments:

  1. Mathyoo27 February 2014 at 13:41

    Great looking figure so far!

    It's interesting to see that bare metal...you don't prime them?

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    1. Fred28 February 2014 at 02:39

      No, I used to, but I gave up priming figures about five years ago. It cuts into the detail on the model. When I started painting, figures to be honeIf you look at GWs way of painting there can be six coats of paint on the model and normally I have three to four, an extra coat of chunky primer does not help.

      I use a couple of coats of spray on varnish at the end of the painting process to keep the paint on the model. I have never had problems with paint peel. It started with my brief flirtation with quickshade. If you ever use that quickshade varnish, you will see that it is actually pretty difficult to chip the paint off.

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  2. Gunrunner27 February 2014 at 13:45

    Ooh, shiny trousers! 5 coats of paint for the flesh?! That's dedicated!

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    1. Fred28 February 2014 at 02:40

      That was only because I screwed it up. I just could get it to look right after. Things have improved a bit now though

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  3. Simon Quinton 27 February 2014 at 15:18

    Looks good to me so far. The Artizan Wild West range has some great figures in it.

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  4. Fred28 February 2014 at 02:42

    I spent ages trying to find what I wanted an Artizan had the best by far. I may have to top up with some other stuff but will see how I go.

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