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Iron Age Ancestors
At the risk of sounding mildly political, recent events have caused me to move away from my English identity and something much more broadly British, particularly with relation to my (often side-lined) Welsh heritage. I’ve had this mini lying around for a while now and I was never really sure what to do with her so she sat unprimed and unpainted. I think she is a Warlord Games mini that I got as a freebee at some point (as I have no other Celts that I would have gotten her to join). Now, she’s not exactly a ‘Welsh’ mini, because she’s got an Imperial Roman Helmet and that and the Welsh as a nation aren’t contemporaneous, but she’s a Briton and that was close enough.
Went with fairly drab, earthy colours to represent an average woman who may be scouring a battlefield in search of her husband or just a local Briton working around a Roman fort.Were it not for the helmet I probs would have gone for a Romano-British look as the area we now call Wales was fairly Romanised. I double checked with my brother who’s put a fair amount of academic time into Welsh history… 😛 Originally I did plan to go a bit mad with designs and patterns all over the model, but I decided quite early on with the palette that less is more for the overall look and feel of what I wanted to go for; an average person. I might actually possibly do a series of minis from Welsh history, but that is not likely to happen any time soon…maybe a Napoleonic Welsh soldier might appear at some point; you never know. That being said, if I did have a knight figure I’d probs try some Welsh Heraldry on him; I have a thing for heraldry at the moment.
Most of the back and sides of the mini is covered by the cloak, so it is a little boring, but I tried to go into the highlights a little more than usual.
The original plan was to go for darker hair, but when I realised that the mini was looking a little dark I decided to make the hair ginger to add in a splash of colour. The helmet was also made a little brighter than I normally do for metal to help with some bright spots.
And the Lloyd shot. A bit more modest than some of the recent stuff...I did try to give the child a slightly rosier tone to his skin by not highlighting up to the higher colours that I used on the lady, but it is a subtle difference. I can see it in the mini, but I don’t know if it comes through on the pictures.
So a bit of an oddball mini, but I like doing that sometimes. Not sure what I’ll work on next, but school will be starting up again soon so the work may slow a bit again, we’ll have to see.
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