wip praetorian slingers

[carvel2]

Having finished all my 'projects' and waiting for gladiators.... ...had a look in the bits box and came up with these for an Easter project

[grant]

More great toys!

[Stuart]

Ooo nice idea, looks good. You should put them in a line, it'll look like they're doing some sort of ancient "Full Monty" tribute by the way they're swinging their jock straps about

[grant]

Ooo nice idea, looks good. You should put them in a line, it'll look like they're doing some sort of ancient "Full Monty" tribute by the way they're swinging their jock straps about

[Invisible officer]

An easter project Oooooh yes, the stuff in the slings. Chocolate eggs.

Nice idea.

[mikeland]

They arnt just ordinary slingers... They are m&s slingers... I mean praetorian slingers. Very nice! Looking forward to this developing! Do you always base before painting?

[carvel2]

Cheers guys...just about to settle down to paint.
@Mikeland....sometimes yes sometimes no. Not sure what my logic is!

[carvel2]

here we go...some progress. Decided to go for the bog standard flurry of red on everything

and

Struggling to get an even coat of red on the shields.
Have used gore red followed by bleeod red finishing off with vallejo carmine red. The Vallejo always seems to dry shiny (tried shaking the bottle)
Always end up perplexed by the last segment of shoulder armour Sometimes painted as cloth sometimes as metal!
Have eyeballs to do, highlights to red and armour and a decision about the shields. I have no transfers so its going to be a wobbly hand job. Not sure on designs.

[Stuart]

They're shaping up nicely Carvel, have you given them stubble?

[carvel2]

@Stuart..yes ..or tried to. a bit of blue for the lads