Wednesday 31 October 2018

Tail Feathers - part 2

Hi all

My apologies to those bloggers whose posts I normally comment on, I’ve been on holiday and decided to completely come away from most electronics preferring to read for the two weeks...

Last time I posted, a couple of weeks ago, I covered "the good guys" from the tabletop skirmish game - Tail Feathers.  this included three mice flying on the backs of a blue jay and some starlings.

This weeks post covers "the baddies", the low down rats and their sinister allies that oppose the mice and chums.

First of all we have a brown rat riding a crow, now in the game the designers called this a "hook beak  bird".  As i'm not entirely sure what this is - I can't find images on Google, I just went with a crow (mostly because their group name is a "murder of crows") Like the good guys, these chaps have a "named" profile and a more generic profile and can be mixed and matched with the other baddies.


Painting was fairly simple, although I deliberately painted up the rat's clothing in greens and blue/greys because of the plumage colour of the crow.


Next is the rook.  The rook is a carrion bird and part of the crow family, unlike the crow it has a lighter coloured beak and legs, so I painted this with yellows to again add colour to what would be a black miniature.  I added some purples to the plumage to break up the unrelieved black of the feathers.

The rat mounted on the back I painted white to draw the eye with bright pink eyes denoting his albinoism.  He appears to armed with a rudimentary pistol but I haven't dug into the game far enough to cover weapons, this will come following a game or two at which point I will review the game.






So this is all of the flying pieces of the game.



The game also comes with "foot soldiers" and I will be painting those and reviewing the game over the coming months.....I hope....

hope you enjoy
dGG

23 comments:

  1. These look great Andy, hope you had a good holiday. I did the same on blogs while I was away, as there was so many posts to go through when I got back, I read them all but only started commenting on ones posted on my return.

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    1. Thanks Dave, yeah I’ve read most of the blogs since I’ve been back but haven’t commented on any

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  2. Good to have you back, Andy, and a terrific post. These really are beautifully sculpted and painted figures.

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    1. Thanks Bryan, they are terrific looking figures. Now to get a game in!

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  3. Excellent work on those low down rats!

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  4. Really nice work Andy, I wont be showing this post to my wife (like the last one) as she then spent the rest of the evening looking up the blooming game on the net looking for the cheapest price! She has gone quiet on it at the moment so I'll leave it that way!

    Really don't need more stuff to paint at the moment.

    Cheers Roger.

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  5. I've bern a bit lax on commenting on the blogs I follow too - must be the time of year. I'm curious as to how big these models are, as they seem quite substantial. Nice work on them all.

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    1. Thanks Jez, I’ll do a size comparison with a 28mm mini in my next post

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  6. You are doing a great painting job on these figures, they do look lovely and fortunately I don't find the concept at all enticing so not being drawn into another project is the icing on the cake.

    Looking forward to seeing the foot figures.

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    1. No worries John, Horses for courses as it were

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  7. Well that's what you *should* do on holiday: take a break from your usual routine :-) .

    Nice bad guys (if you see what I mean)!

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  8. They do look big beasties and nicely painted, but you've lost me at the rats riding on their backs!

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    1. I didn’t think it would be your cuppa tea Joe

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  9. Wow! Brilliant stuff there Andy!

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  10. Lovely models and great painting. A joy to read and drool over the pictures.

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  11. You've done another great job on these Andy, and I'm looking forward to seeing your review of the game :-)
    Of course, after the first batch of plumage painting, the "Canaries" was the ONLY place you could go for a beak (sorry, "break") ;-)

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  12. Love those Carrion Eaters! The purple is an inspired choice and makes an otherwise model dangerously near "boring" due to a monotone colour scheme subtly interesting colour-wise.

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