Tail Feathers - Mousling Foot Soliders

Well it has been a long time coming, but I finally finished another batch of Tail Feather figures.  The delays really had nothing to do with the figures themselves or the paint job, instead it was really about my focus or lack thereof.  I've gotten distracted several times when I was supposed to be working on these but I finally buckled down and knocked these guys out.  Now onto the birds and the riders.  Hopefully I find those a bit more interesting.

Not completely happy with them but I really do not want to spend any more time on them.  This batch of figures really gave me fits along the way.  For the light fur color, my initial color choice was completely off base from what I wanted.  On the green cloaks, I achieved a really nice blending from shadow to highlight with the airbrush but for some reason when I had to correct some issues using a brush I could never get a good color match.  This required me to apply several washes over the entire cloak to tone down the gradients but destroying a lot of the highlight work in the process.  Also for the life of me I just could not get a decent highlight onto the red cloaks or the bows.  I don't know.  Of course, I gave up kind of easily.  lol

Just gotta do the basing.  I have a good backlog of basing to do on some "almost" finished figures, so I think one upcoming weekend I am finally going to sit down and knock them all out.

Anyway, for my reference here are the paints I used.  All paints are Reaper Master Series unless otherwise specified.

Basecoat:

• Fur:
• Vallejo Panzer Aces Light Rubber
• Yellowed Bone
• Cloak:
• Templar Blue
• Olive Green
• Clotted Red
• Amor/Arrow Head:  AP Gunmetal
• Flesh:  Aged Bone + Carnage Red
• Tunic/Shirt:  Terran Khaki
• Leather:  Earth Brown
• Bow/Arrow Shafts:  Rich Leather
• Bow Straps/Feathers:  Aged Bone

Highlights:

• Fur:
• Vallejo Panzer Aces Light Rubber + Polished Bone
• Creamy Ivory
• Cloak:
• Ashen Blue
• Pale Olive
• Carnage REd
• Armor/Arrow Head:  AP Shinning Silver
• Tunic/Shirt:  Khaki Highlight
• Leather:  Leather Brown
• Bow/Arrow Shafts:  Polished Leather
• Bow Straps/Feathers:  Polished Bone

Shading:

• Fur:  1 pass of AP Strong Tone
• Cloak:
• Breonne Blue
• Muddy Olive
• Bloodstain Red
• Rest:  1 pass of AP Strong Tone, 2nd pass over select areas/spots