Yes Peter, two blogs !
Will you continue to do both if the body arrives ?
Can't have you sitting about for too long with nothing to paint. Of course there's all ways some thing in the garden I'm sure that Mrs Day would like doing !
Bye.
John.
Hi chaps - Sorry, I didn't see your posts before now. Yep, two blogs on the go at once - whatever next?(not gardening!).
The kit finally arrived:
Sorry about the blurry sprue shot. All nicely sculpted and moulded like the Viking before it. I decided to abandon the kit arms which had areas of wrinkly skin showing and were at the wrong angle anyway, and instead used some from the Verlinden Eastern European Viking kit (the left arm fits over the shield I've used):
Still a little cleaning up to do, but I think it will work. Off to get the train now (Granddad stuff).
There always seems to be a strong Japanese influence in programmes like 'Game of Thrones' (home of the original figure). I don't think this get-up is too dissimilar to some Dark Age armours. I'm going to paint the kilt and leggings as leather, possibly coloured, and the cuirass and shoulder armour as leather studded with bronze plates. It's only meant to be a bit of fun anyway, so it doesn't matter to me how 'accurate' it is.