Even More Peons

It's been a long time without updates, but I finally completed the last of the Foundry peons to populate the pueblo. Not the most exciting figures in the project, but when it comes down to it, a Zorro game will always need loads of these as the rest of the action boils down to Zorro on one side and a handful of villains on the other (more if they are especially incompetent).

Looks like I was a little rusty. Luckily, I documented all the colours used (and mixed) to represent the different textures, so I had something to fall back on. The dark grey seems to have gone a little glossy over time, might have to consider getting a matt varnish for the lot of them.

A little group of just the peons (not including the slightly higher class civilians).

And a groupshot of everything, it became clear my display background isn't big enough anymore...

Off To The Market...

Another civilian taking the fruits of his labour to the market and hoping he won't get robbed by bandits or tax collectors on the way back. The figure is another civilian from the Perry Miniatures Carlist War range. The small cactus is from the Pegasus plastic set.

And another groupshot, I'll probably need a bigger backdrop soon...

More Peons

Two more Foundry peons. Not much to say, other than that the eyes on the one that's hunched over seem too big now that I see them at larger than life size. I will have to slightly touch them up.

And a group shot of all the civilians so far (mix of Foundry and Perry miniatures).

Locals from the Pueblo of Los Angeles

Some more locals from the Pueblo of Los Angeles. These figures are made by Perry Miniatures and are meant to be Spanish civilians from the Carlist War, roughly contemporary to Zorro's time and it stands to reason you'd find elements of their traditional dress in California residents of Spanish decent. These are slightly better off than the poorer peons.

Casting on the figures was rather rough, which required a lot of cleaning and generally made the painting experience far from pleasant. Still, they are done and while not my best work for this project, they will fit in just find as random bystanders.

And another group shot.

Some Humble Peons

What does Zorro need (aside from his mask, his horse, his sword and a willing oppressor) most of all? Defenseless bystanders to protect and lots of them. Here are the first, three poor, lowly peons in need of a hero. Though the one the left (that makes me think of a young Charles Bronson) will actually serve as a fighting figure as well, since he's armed with a pistol and knife.

The peons were actually the first minis I did to see if I could manage to paint in this style. It was a bit of a learning curve but they came out well enough for me to try the presidiales (which show some improvement I think). These are Foundry miniatures. For some reason the bases look a bit off, I may have to fix that. I will use the small 20mm bases for the non-combattant figures and the larger 25mm ones for the action figures.