Sunday 13 November 2011

Six Battalions of French Greatcoats

Four 1st battalions with Eagle and the tricolours are by Maverick Models and two 2nd battalions, the fanions are by GMB. Took just over a week to complete these, I used the vallejo black wash to give a bit contrast to the greatcoats and then drybrushed with the original grey colour. The figures are by Old Glory and I'm not too impressed by the quality or variation in poses. Only two poses for the fusilers and it was tough to paint the faces with the muskets sticking in the way. In the end I gave up and just painted a skin wash over most of them. I will probably use these to denote raw or untrained battailions.







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10 comments:

  1. Paulalba14 November 2011 at 00:47

    After the trouble the faces gave you they came out really nice Ken.
    Cheers
    Paul

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  2. Ben Gilmour14 November 2011 at 00:54

    Lovely work there, Ken!

    Thinking about painting anything smaller than 20mm makes my head hurt, so hats off to you small scale chaps!

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  3. Rodger14 November 2011 at 09:01

    Great painting. Far to small for me now, I need fig's I can see. Impressive Ken.

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  4. RazorOne22314 November 2011 at 11:14

    Nice work!! I am not much of a fan of Old Glory either, but then again I think we are all spoiled by AB's so I think that skew's our judgement...

    Cheers

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  5. Ken14 November 2011 at 11:27

    Hi,

    Thanks again for the support, Old Glory ain't usually too bad for infantry - it's their cavalry that looks too small. Another niggle was that I ran out of elites for the two 2nd battalions.

    Anyway, next WIP are some Prussian hussars and then some British light infantry.

    Cheers

    Ken

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  6. Ray Rousell14 November 2011 at 13:45

    They look fine to me Ken, OG do have a tendency to place the musket close to the face, in both the 15 and 25mm figures, it may well look correct but like you said, they're a real bugger to paint.

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  7. DeanM18 November 2011 at 14:32

    Ken: Sorry I missed this post earlier; great work and Napoleonics surely look great en masse. Best, Dean

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  8. Ken18 November 2011 at 22:29

    Hi Dean,

    No problem, comments always welcome!

    Cheers

    Ken

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  9. Galpy19 November 2011 at 00:40

    I've painted a lot of old glory in my time, I think you've done a really great job

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  10. Bluewillow21 November 2011 at 11:14

    nice work Ken,

    just found your blog and added it to my blog list!

    http://napoleonickriegspielers.blogspot.com/

    cheers
    matt

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