Yes, here we finish a project almost a decade in the making (and wait, have I been doing this blog for a decade… *checks* woah so I have!). Way back in 2015 I posted my first Battle Masters painted minis, a stand of Chaos Warriors. It was pretty basic. I wasn’t a very good painter (am still not going to win any awards but hey, you’ve got to have mediocrity to have excellence) and these are hard minis to paint well. Roll on nearly 10 years and I have finally finished painting the whole Battle Masters box. The last four stands are complete, and the armies are ready for battle! I will be taking photos of the armies laid out Ansell style sometime, but for now here are the final minis…. as I said before, these aren’t very easy minis to paint well. My biggest complaint regards the archers and crossbowmen – that the mold line runs down the middle of their faces, which are already poorly defined. Very hard to do anything there without losing all facial defination. The crossbowmen are sculpted so that where there should be a space between the bow and the body there is plastic, which is hard to paint in a way that hides it. The knights are a lot easier to paint in a way that flatters your painting skills just by adding some design to the barding. I was experimenting with different coloured undercoats on this lot, using paints from the various tiny pots of Airfix style paint. I then layered shades and contrast paints to see what I learned. I didn’t learn much but that’s part of learning! One final comment – I did pick up lots of BM Ogres as per that 2015 post, but never did anything with them! Might be about time to pull my finger out….