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".

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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...

10 comments:

John Lambshead said...

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

BigRedBat said...

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

Caliban said...

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

Paul´s Bods said...

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

Rodger said...

Very very nice indeed!

BigRedBat said...

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

Flags of War said...

they look good mate

RazorOne223 said...

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

cheers

Galpy said...

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

BigRedBat said...

Thanks all! Love your Guard, Kent. Simon