Oooohlans

So I picked up my long awaited cavalry for my Khador army. The Iron Fang Uhlans are gorgeous miniatures, that I happily take home, ready to assemble.

And then I move house. That slows down progress a bit. Suddenly packing, cleaning and keeping small children under control become priorites. And then the room I had in mind for painting in the new home turns into the "storage" (read junk) room. My painting table and tools are now on the other side of a ton of boxes each of which needs to be sorted and emptied before I can approach my hobbies with a clear consience.

Thankfully I've got a space at work where I can sneak half an hours painting or assembly of miniatures if I'm lucky. Putting my (almost finished) Widowmakers to one side for now, I pulled out the Uhlan box to discover a lot of pieces:

1. Horse left body
2. Horse right body
3. Horse head
4. Horse tail
5. Rider left leg
6. Rider right leg
7. Rider torso and head
   
8. Rider left arm
   
9. Rider shield
10. Rider right arm
11. Lance
12. Cloak

All that times three adds up to quite a bit of cleaning. The first one took me about an hour all up including most but not all of the drilling holes for pinning. Hopefully this will be a bit quicker on the other two. Still the promise of the assembled figures will keep me pushing on. The assembly will require a certain amount of Green Stuff work, especially on the horses. I'll try to post pictures when I get a chance to take some.

Choices

So I've got a few figures for my new Confrontation army. I've gone with the Lions of Alahan because the sculpts are just amazing. It means there'll be a lot of filigree to paint, and I'm also thinking of trying NMM (Non metallic metal) painting which will no doubt be a stretch, but a challenge I'm looking forward to trying.

The first figure is cleaned up and ready to be primed, which means I have to start thinking about colours. The problem is choosing a colour scheme that will look good on all the figures and that I'll still like after painting a bunch of figures.

From the Rackham forums I've found a post where someone else has been through the same process, doing some very nice Photoshop work, some of which I've included here...



For an army that's as "high" fantasy as this one, I definitely think that strong bold colours is the way to go. I also like the idea of a strong colour contrasted with either off white or black. This gives a "crusading" feel to the miniatures and helps convey the idea that it's an army of faith.

As soon as I've finished my Khador Widowmakers, and moved house, I'll get cracking on a couple of test figures and post some images.