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Nice addition Ian have a good weekend

Brilliantly painted skin tones, i enjoyed the movie aswell

not my era at all...............................but i love it, will definately be part of my grey army (y)

Cheers Andrew, yes it was a great call from Steve, funnily enough I looked at my wife's old quilted jacket and its the same

your right, always imagine the deepest part being darker, whod have thought (y)

Good call Helm I think it looks better, i had to deepen the shades on the bottom edge of the padded parts and the crease is off white, white was a bit stark

ill perhaps give it a go and see how it looks (y)

Cheers Helm havnt seen that before, I'm just wondering how that will look on scale painting though, heres one of Pegaso figures that show dark to black creases perhaps its worth a try to see how it looks

Hi all bit more time at the bench seeing as we are flooded in, started on the bottom part of the leather jerkin, finished the left sleeve apart from the pattern and the left inside of the bearskin, more to follow thanks for looking in

the diplomat is spectacularily well painted, some brilliant free hand there (y)

They could possibly have

Hi all had a great reply from Dr Jody Joy at the museum, there is no evidence either way as to if Vikings had tartan, none has been found in any graves but that doesn't mean that they didn't as many areas of Britain had tartan and Vikings were great traders as well as raiders. Surprisingly...

Your probabaly right but i was going from the fact that they invaded everywhere and chances are they would have taken up some of the local cloth, i did send an email to a friend of mine thats the curator for ancient history at the british museum to check it, but no reply yet

Hi all. a bit of progress with this, i have changed the sleeve, didnt like the tartan, and gone for a grey blue with a bit of decoration around the cuff, the left arm is base coated ready for shading, the belt needs a bit more work but its getting there

Well the formation parade wasn't any better :(

Carl i can only imagine that you proved the fact, in my day armoured farmers were the bottom of the food chain ;)

heres a few more update pics for your perusal, i lightened the leather sleeve up and tartaned the other bit, just need to make it look a bit worn and grubby now

hey us Engineers are everywhere, i was 73 Ind Fld Sqn, later 23 Engineer Regt, then 39 at Waterbeach

great bust, well painted and, as an ex Royal Engineer, a hero of mine. A good likeness to Stanley baker to

Hi all, quick update, did a bit more work on the helmet, added a touch of blue/green, sort of sea salt damage to the iron, just in pinpricks to different parts, and started the chainmail and the leather sleeve. More to do on the sleeve im not happy with the finish yet oh yes and...