Having spent too long doom scrolling (is that a phrase?) and watching rubbish in the evenings on my phone I decided I'd like something constructive instead and out came the Wars Of The Roses. Originally I was building a Yorkist army, but now I'm just building a generic army I can split into two when I want a game.
In the last few weeks I've managed to paint a unit of bowmen and one of men at arms, although they are awaiting the final touch of some green flock and perhaps a flower or two on their bases.
Having done the usual brown leather undercoat I gave them a dry brush of matt white to help the brighter colours I was planning to stand out. I've been buying a few speed paints, most of which work quite well, especially over a white base, and used these for the browns and red (note: the 'Holy White' did not work so well - just came out grey).
For the armour I used a coat of leadbelcher, then an Army Painter dark tone wash, before drybrushing in shinning silver. A bit of red brown and sandy colours for the belts and weapon handles was covered in the Army Painter strong tone wash and highlighted, and the skin with a flesh speed paint and wash, and some gold bits to give a bit of variety and colour. Everything was finished off with a gloss varnish on the metals, and a matt varnish on the more natural materials and it was done. The bowmen had a few more colours including a yellow and green, but all done in the same way with paint+wash+highlights.
Overall reasonably pleased with them, now on to the next couple of units.
