#empireofman

I was feeling like I was in a bit of a funk with my painting for a while, and so I thought what better way to break the cycle of endless brown-and-green uniforms than by breaking out the broader colour palette and slapping a bit of motley on some renaissance mercenaries! Here we have a trio of cheeky Landsknechts, playing a game of dice while their mounted commander looks on (perhaps he's ready to give them a good telling-off for shirking their responsibilities). I particularly love the expression on the chap who's clearly just lost a packet on the game. Being able to paint up some minis in an absolute riot of colour (I'm getting alcopop-vomit vibes from these) has really helped to remind me why I love this hobby so much, and I'm so chuffed with the finished product. Now I just have to fight the urge to start a whole army of these eccentric chaps.

Oh man. I didn't even get to see him. On the way there we nearly wrecked twice, ended up in Hustler's [my friend's face turned beat red when she saw the window displays], got stuck in traffic for almost an hour, almost fought a 40 year old man while in previous traffic... after all that we had to turn around and come back. We saw Super 8 after all was said and done... it sucked and didn't make me feel any better.