These are the light infantry figures from the set 8020 Carthaginian African infantry. I'n not happy with the way these turned out so I'll be repainting them soon. This is actually the very first Hat Industrie set I bought.
I've been nursing a bum foot since Sunday and worked on these during the afternoons. While casually surfing for horse references, I discovered a new, exciting and tremendously complex thing -- Equine Color! Ever since I was given a book written by Sheperd Paine with a chapter on horses, I was intrigued. Only when I attempted to do research on the Numidian horsemen & their mounts did I realize how complex horse color is. Presented here are a few work-in-progress pictures. I still have a lot of touchups to do as well as texturing the bases and flocking until I can call this done. But for idly playing with them while making moronic hoofbeat sounds, they pretty much suffice. I'm pretty happy about the way the greys and the bays turned out but I'm still at a loss how to do really red chestnuts. Among the pictures, you'll find a sample of a really badly-done attempt at a chestnut with a really red coat & mane. I may post an article here soon about the information I
You seem to be very productive! I like HäT, but the Zvezda Carthaginian Infantry is much better I think.
ReplyDeleteThanks! These have been finished some tome ago but I just dug up the pics. I'm actually a slow painter.
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