A few more Dark Age figures

While enthusiasm for blogging remains low, progress at the painting table continues apace.  Most of my efforts have been on completing all of the miniatures that arrived from the Battletech Kickstarter back in December.  

The biggest change for me has been playing with my new airbrush.  I splurged and picked up the mid-size Army Painter Air paint set which includes several sets of "triads" with base, mid and high tone paints.  I have found they are perfectly thinned for my airbrush straight from the bottle.  In addition, they work well for brush work as well.  Thus, I have been experimenting with them on my 28mm projects as well. 

On this update are three models from Brother Vinni's 28mm collection.  This includes a resin Viking Standard Bearer (above( to add to my Dark Age warbands.  It is a cleanly sculpted model with a pattern cast into the standard itself.  My only critique is that the pattern is only cast on one side of the flag, leaving the other side conspicuously blank. 

I also picked up "St Brendon of Clonfert" to play the part of a fervent Christian missionary (Top).  I opted for the pointing hand rather than wooden cross sculpt.  The cloak is a separate piece which allows for a very dynamic pose.

Lastly I picked up "Black Sorcerous" which is pretty much a "not Gennifer" sculpt to go along with the "totally not the Witcher" collection from Brother Vinni.  I need to get a better picture here as I tried to play around with the triad flesh tone AP provided as well as a very faint rose wash to get better facial details. 

Overall a brief update, but I am still figuring how I want to organize these infrequent updates for the future.  I am behind on doing a roll-up for 2021 and even goal setting for 2022.  Mostly my efforts are on painting lots of little projects to pair down the overall size of the lead pile.