More Salute Stuff Finished

 One Figure Done and One to be Repainted

This unicorn model put me in mind of the two unicorns in Foxglove Summer (from the excellent Rivers of London book series by B.Aaronovitch). Not a friendly, docile pony but a wild and very dangerous beast. With a bloody big spike on the top of its head. The Reaper figure might be plastic, but it means they made it into a big model and very happily fills out the 50mm base. And nicely fits into the Fae army and fills out another large monster slot. 

The Fae queen (shown for scale) which I painted last year, has now been dropped in the paint stripper and rebased.  Like the banshee from the zombie unit, I was never really happy with the final look as she is supposed to the Fae army commander and uber-powerful sorceress. And never really looked the part. So, she will get the zenithal treatment. 

In case you are not familiar with the Rivers of London series, the main protagonist, Constable (& wizard) Peter Grant is on the hunt for some missing children when he meets a pair of unicorns causing a breach of the peace and looking to add GBH to their list of crimes.

‘Then the werelight* popped out and suddenly it was there, huge and real and sweaty and pale in the moonlight, its horn bobbing left and right as it swung its head and sniffed the air.’

‘I smelt it, horse sweat and rough hair, and I felt the weight and power of the muscles underneath its invisible skin. And then as if the moon had come out from behind a cloud I saw it, outlined in silver, as big as a carthorse, as shaggy as a pony and as pissed off as a bull in the household goods section of Marks and Spencer. Its mad black eye was fixed on me as it twisted and pulled, trying to get its narwhale horn free of the tree.’ 

* A spell to create a magical light and the first spell every Newtonian wizard learns. 

The dryad will also get the zenithal treatment

Two Pound Well Spent

First of the minotaurs painted, this one pretty much untouched from the original model. I did remove the short section between the top of the hand and the bottom of the club because it was very bendy. Zenithal highlighting (with airbrush) works really well with this model.  I am pleased with the result on this model and feel I am making progress with the zenithal technique. 

The mark one paintjob from October last year, 

Rob