This is my second jolly good chap from Copplestone Castings‘ set by the same name (you can see my first jolly good chap here). I prepped and primed the model three or four years ago, but it sat in a to-do box ever since. I came upon it again a couple weeks ago while looking for something else. On a whim I decided to see what kind of results I could get during the short time my son was napping. This is the result of that painting session, which lasted about two hours. Simple and effective (but I think I should fill in the wall of grass a little more, and trim back some of the large strands a centimeter or two).
The Jolly Good Chaps set is part of Copplestone Castings’ Back of Beyond and High Adventure catalogs.
Interesting piece of trivia: “back of beyond,” an emphatic phrase used in reference to a location far removed from the world, comes to us from Sir Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816):
The laird o’ Tamlowrie and Sir Gilbert Grizzlecleugh and Auld Rossballoh and the Bailie were just setting in to make an afternoon o’t, and you, wi’ some o’ your auld-warld stories, that the mind o’ man canna resist, whirled them to the back o’ beyont to look at the auld Roman camp.