Old Skool Goodies, Baddies and Whatever

Finally after another extended life break I have gotten back to painting again. The spur to this was courtesy of a couple of Facebook pages hosting 30 in 30 painting challenges. For the uninitiated that is 30 minutes of painting for every day of the month of November.  I decided this was just the sort of thing I needed to do to get my painting mojo back, however the Facebook challenges were for Oathmark armies and Frostgrave warbands,  so as I hadn’t got anything set up for those I decided to go my own way!

Despite the lack of painting over the summer I had managed to get a large number of old 1980’s Citadel Historicals into  Dettol baths so as the start of November approached it was time to get to work on them.

I give you Citadel Miniatures 25mm Dark Age Byzantines!

The first completed batch are 10 Cataphract Cavalry, 12 staff slingers and 12 javelin skirmishers (Later Mark 2 style). As survivors of a Dettol bath and many years of gaming abuse I have had to replace spears and make other repairs so they are not quite 100% authentic 1980’s! As they are only the tip of the iceberg for this army I decided to give them a simple no fuss paint scheme, base colours, dip and highlights otherwise I would never get them done! However I think this simple paint scheme suits these classic lead men.

Going with the 80’s theme these are based up for good old WRG 6th Ed, but will still work for many more recent games systems.

Impressive as this might seem for 30 minutes of painting for a month its not actually everything I have done! Still to be based are another 12 Javelin skirmishers, of Mark 1 style and 12 bow skirmishers have yet to be given a post dip highlight as can be seen below.

So overall a very productive month, all I have to do now is follow it through to next month!

Till next time ….