The figures are Old Glory 15's, the paints vary so much I can't be bothered to put them all on here. I paint using a magnifier lamp and cut the brushes I use short in order to be able to use them without knocking against the lamp while I paint.
By the way can anyone point me in the way of good quality fine paint brushes, I use Games Workshop but I think their standard of brush is going down the pan. Any suggestions please?
The figures.
The 16 figure rgt cleaned, undercoated black and stuck onto bottle tops with white tack (much better than blue tack). I always black undercoat, if you do miss bits while painting they look like shadows, white will stand out like a sore thumb.
The horses with their basic colour and the reins etc painted on.
A trumpeter, the horse has a lighter shade.
This pic shows the horses finished. They have been washed using the Games Workshop washes, the only ones I really use are brown, black and flesh. They have fancy names but that's the colours they are. Manes and tails dry brushed and a little bit of white blaze on a few of the horses faces. The washes transformed my painting, speeding things up considerably.
This shows the cavalrymen painted in their base colours, red facings etc, off white (don't try washing over pure white, it looks crap) jacket, gloves, trousers and face. The face will be washes with flesh, the rest with brown.
Leather cross belts, gold braid, white hair, sword and carbine painted.
The regiment based (green flock and brown ballast), complete with flags (Maverick Models), always paint the edges of the flags the appropriate colour so no white is showing.
Make sure when you are putting the grass flock on that you gently run your thumb upwards so that the grass doesn't end up hanging over the side of the base. This gives a 'clean' edge to the base and makes a heck of a difference to the finish. Finally the figures are matt varnished with spray.
So that's them done, not top class figures but not bad considering the pace at which they needed to be done to finish the army off. Only five Grenadier battalions, two Hussar regiments and one artillery battery to go Tom, maybe another month!
Dave.
Love this uniform and this period, an impressive cavalry regiment...very nice job Dave!
ReplyDeleteCheers Phil, had another look at your blog yesterday, very nice.
ReplyDeleteImpressive regiment, and equally impressively done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean.
ReplyDeleteBy Gum Haven't seen any of those for year !! Shedloads of new Blue Moon 15mm DYW out now- Just got 'em from the USA
ReplyDeleteNext time I'm down at your place I'll have a look. Always fancied SYW et al but I refuse to start another period. If I did it I think I would follow Jim with his 10mm stuff. Mind you that would be the only place I would follow Jim, you don't know where he's been!
ReplyDeleteDave.
Impressive looking regiment. Like you I rely heavily on washes, speeds up painting time significantly. As for brushes check out Windsor and Newton, also Warlord games have brought some out that I have just started to use, seem ok and better than the GW stuff
ReplyDeleteGive me a link for the brushes please Scotty.
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