Spring Cleaning Military Orders

So if there were 3 things that have kept me from just finishing these it’s been these two. They have multiple freehand sections all over them.  logos, lines and white.

But I was on a high, so decided to roll with the punches.

The unmounted Knight of Montesa was first. it has 5 freehand sections on it. I got this done but need to do so much more. The logo’s were difficult but at this scale they look good until you are within 12″ I was not up for bringing in any magnification and I used a size 3 brush for them as this felt most comfortable.

I think I got better at painting a circle down. added in the design elements and painted a better Pano logo than before. I realise now I mixed up the shoulder pads and put the logo on the wrong side. I am not re-doing this but may think about it later. I copied this mistake onto the second logo.

The mounted Knight of Montesa gave me the fear. I like painting bikes but I do find them tiresome this was like painting 3 models. Not only that but the bike had about 14 pieces of freehand on it. I cut this down as I honestly didn’t think it added much to the model.  Sergio was either bored, practicing, overpaid or showing off when he painted the studio models.

I settled with 9 freehand for this  one barley counted as it was a line to hint to a freehand.

I like the end result though, so this is an oddity. This is painted with the rule of cool firmly in mind and the MNN on the bike is completely made up and not based on reality.

This project has been an experience much more than I had imagined. It started with terrain I was comfortable with. Painting that pushed me and then things that scare me. I cant wait to get back into a comfort zone but as I put everything painted so far away today I felt good about it as a whole.

Freehand is becoming normal, I am accepting “not painting at my best” for comfort and making constructive choices better here, less effort there and learning to be happy with what I have done.

This is still a process but at least I am getting a great looking force out of it. Though I see another 8 models have planned releases and one other that I want. But I will need to play these before committing further.

Now I have the rest of this week to defeat the last Foe. I call him FINAL BOSS.

One past post to come. For now.