Friday's Progress

Here's what I was able to get done Friday night. I got a much later start than I had hoped, but still had a good time. I finished up the gloves, back of the shield and it's strapping, the bow, the quiver and the arrows.

I really like the Americana DA62 Terra Cotta for strapping. But it seems a little too close in color tone to the figure itself. I decided the hair was too different from the mane, so I ink-washed both of those areas. I may yet go back and highlight them a little more. I also finished the touch ups on the saddle cloth.

Do Centaurs call it a saddle blanket? Or is it an armour cloth? Hmm . . .

I used Stone Mountain's Rebel Butternut for the bow, which is what I also used for the AElves' halbred staves. It's an okay color for wood. But I'm not sure I'll use it again. I just don't feel like I have gotten enough contrast between it and the figures.

This view of the other side shows were I am going to have to go back and touch up a couple of blue slips on his body. I generally have a couple of toothpicks ready, with wet tips, for taking care of paint slips. Sometimes you can get it all off without damaging the main paint job. But not this time . . .

It looks like I may finally be getting my photos uploaded correctly so that they can be clicked on for larger views! Yeah !!!

Oh, great ~ the first one is working correctly and this last one isn't! ARGH. They are almost exactly the same size, the second one is a very slightly larger file, and all of the upload parameters were identical.

I'm baffled . . .