Friday, 2 December 2011

Sundry Ruperts and Tars



I've finished the last 18 fiigures for my Naval legion; the offices (or "Ruperts" in naval parlance) are above.  Models are a mix of Black Tree, Foundry, Crusader and Companion.  You might be able to make out an Aventine dolphin standard, kindly donated by Keith. Not my best photo... they look better in the "flesh".

I

The photo of my optios and the last few legionaries ("Tars") came out rather better (above, all Black Tree). The faces have bags of character.  Next I have to paint 80 shields...
at

10 comments:

  1. John Lambshead2 December 2011 at 15:38

    I thought officers=ruperts came from the SAS. It was the Navy?

    ReplyDelete
  2. BigRedBat2 December 2011 at 15:59

    Hi John, I think also army in general and possibly navy (is on the Royal Navy service slang page, at least...)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Caliban2 December 2011 at 17:15

    Great stuff, Simon, can't wait to see a whole legion shot. Or two...

    ReplyDelete
  4. Paul´s Bods2 December 2011 at 18:37

    Do the ruperts become Rodneys (what we called them in the B.A.O.R) when they go on land??
    Nice looking bunch...80 shields to paint? I feel for you :-D
    Cheers
    paul

    ReplyDelete
  5. Rodger2 December 2011 at 18:42

    Very very nice indeed!

    ReplyDelete
  6. BigRedBat2 December 2011 at 19:00

    Thanks chaps.

    Rodney's sounds plausible, Paul. Luckily, all the shields are transfer jobs, so although a big task, hopefully it'll be manageable. All 80 are primed and I'll slap on some paint, tonight!

    Simon

    ReplyDelete
  7. Flags of War2 December 2011 at 20:17

    they look good mate

    ReplyDelete
  8. RazorOne2233 December 2011 at 01:07

    WOW nice work!!! I am doing over a 100 shields myself...fun stuff...lol

    cheers

    ReplyDelete
  9. Galpy4 December 2011 at 09:02

    They look great. I have hundreds of these guys to paint all foundry picked them up off a guy in america every time i look at your guys it inspires me to get tem out and do a few more

    ReplyDelete
  10. BigRedBat4 December 2011 at 13:52

    Thanks all! Love your Guard, Kent. Simon

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for commenting. I will post this as soon as I am able to review it.