Vikings preparing for the raiding season
Batch 2: Monks
Next we have some monks. Some are clearly running for their lives, while others are involved in their daily chores. Quick and easy paint jobs with only about 3 or 4 colours on each model.
There’s also a cow in the collection, which I decided to paint like one of the “Chillingham Herd“.
These are ancient, wild cattle that have been kept in a walled park for hundreds of years so they may well be the kind of cows these Anglo Saxon monks farmed.
I’d always fancied visiting them, until I found out that the minor nobility that owns them is related to Dominic Cummings in some way.
Finally in this batch there’s a young woman with a basket of mushrooms. I resisted the urge to paint the mushrooms with red, spotted caps, but I was intimidated by her dress for a day or two. After a while I decided to take inspiration from the film ‘Midsommar’ and keep the dress white with one colour for the accents.
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