First Four Female Peasants Finished

The four females.

 I've been working well above my regime of an hour a day over the last week. but have  only managed to finish the four females from the batch of twenty-six. I concentrated on the females mainly to have something 'finished' for this week's blog. The chaps have all had their flesh base colour added and their weapons have all been started too. A lot of time this week was spent cutting flash from the figures, but during painting there was still bits that I'd missed - such is life.

I'm pleased with the 'conversions' making every model an individual, though the women had their right hand inevitably break off when drilling for a new weapon.

All the new weapons' shafts were filed down from very thin cane, with bits attached !

Frying pan from the lid of a soft drink

Broom head from the original figure

Adze head from scrap MDF

Original figure, with apron 'removed'

The chaps in their current state

Alongside painting I've also been drawing ot the first large adobe building I'm working on, an arched building with a footprint of approximately 18" x 12" in foamboard. So far I've used three sheets of A2 and will need another one at least for the base and the roof !

Building 'plans', details can just about be made out.

And that's all I've got this week, sadly not a lot to show for a lot of time spent. Next week, if I manage to finish the hair, hats, shading etc. on the male peasants I'll be posting photos of those.

Photography this week has been of the usual abysmal varied quality, despite my best efforts with photoshop so many apologies for that [Usual excuses apply - Ed.]  

That's all for this week, thanks for taking the time to visit and as always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.