Everyone remembers their first Conquest!

Bit of backstory on this one. There I was happily trucking along on the Path of Conquest, riding high from a battle report and getting the core of the army painted when lockdown v3 kicked in. I was really looking forward to expanding the force and doing another battle report as this had really helped give me a push to keep going. With that out the window my motivation took a hit and i struggled to muster up the energy to paint more units.

In an attempt to break the funk i thought it might help if i just painted up a character to get me going again so i dusted off my mounted lord and had a think.

Now the the knights i had painted so far were quite plain and i wanted my lord to stand out  a bit from the ranks so i decided to go with golden armour with resplendant yellow and blue livery.

Firstly i primed the horse and rider in gold as it had worked nicely on the unmounted version and then the problems started!

Yellow, always f++king yellow! Now once again no matter what i did i couldnt get it to work and after multiple attempts i threw the whole thing to one side and decided leave it alone for a bit and find some other options for yellow.

This involved buying inks, new paints and defacing a bunch of old models!

after getting some satisfactory results with yellow with some Crisis Protocol X-Men i finally found a decent soloution. It still took another few weeks to build up the energy to tackle him again but finally last week i reprimed the skirts with white and got back to work.

Annoyingly this meant i would now have to pepaint the gold armour by hand and on a model that was already annoying me this really turned into a slog and i can honestly say i hated every minute of painting this one and i hate how it turned out but its DONE and i can move on!!

And there he is. All i feel is relief now he’s finished. Honestly every step with this one was a chore and everything seemed to go wrong. Even resorted to trying pigment powders on the skirts to try and hide some of the paint and wash issues but even that didnt seem to work!

One thing i can guarentee is this guy is going to be initating a lot of suicidal chrages in his future!!!

Have to say as annoying as this model was to finish, now its done i do now have a renewed vigour for getting on with my Conquest stuff. Time to grab a Wizard…