I needed a Nemean Lion for my Greek mythological army so I picked up a toy lion at the Skirmish Toy Soldier show for 50p. I sprayed it with Halford's car cellulose undercoat and painted it tawny brown. This was followed by Citadel brown wash, a coast of Army Painter brown tone gloss varnish to seal it all in and thin layer of Winsor & Newton matt varnish to take off the shine.
Killing the monstrous man-eating Nemean Lion was the first labour of Hercules.
This is a big model: the 25mm cavalry base gives the scale. In metal it would have cost £15. Okay, this is not so good a sculpt as a metal model but it ain't bad for fifty copper coins of the realm.
Sunday, 29 March 2015
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Come out lovely, that!
ReplyDeleteNot bad for 50p, Peter.
DeleteThat's a rampant lion...
ReplyDeleteSomewhere between a god and a mortal. :)
DeleteBravo, John!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Monty.
DeleteLooks great. Better sculpt than the horrible Disneyfied Foundry ones!
ReplyDeleteLOL, must check them out. All puppified, are they?
DeleteBargain.
ReplyDeleteI feel epic.
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