Skirts

Not literally, just giving more length to their tunics (if that is what they are). So instead of looking like spearmen with cloaks, they'll look all proper guardsman.








Other peoples attempts at the tunics are very good like:



http://russhobby.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gondor-warriors-converted-citadel-guard.html



http://lighteffect.net/blogs/?p=1064


mine look like:

That didn't go as bad as I thought it would, some of them are a little off (others a lot), but this means I can finally spray them, yay! they have been sitting on my desk for a week!


Until then


Fish

Cloaked

Well I think it worked. Despite the filing down of the arms a couple of models do have bulky cloaks, some have very thin or short ones, but overall a success given that my sculpting skills were very limited.


The process was: 
mix together putty
roll it out as flat as possible, use olive oil so it doesn't stick to the roller
Cut out a rectangular shape from it
Flatten that as much as possible
apply to models


being an amateur at this naturally I got fingerprints all over it, which I smoothed-ish with one of the many sculpting tools (still don't know what half of them are for).


The pictures:

The amount of putty I used was about 3 inches for 12 models and there was some left over, I think that I did a good job, but some models did turn out to look too bulky, or the cloak was too short, but overall I'm happy.
the whole group:

Next is basing, then another spraying session! Which will included more models this time.


Until then

Fish