Perry British Hussars -Just Arrived!!

New Arrivals

Looking forward to building and painting these guys.

Arms on or Off

I usually put the arms on first and then paint however on these Victrix 54mm it's difficult to paint the jackets properly.

I'm going to try on the next batch leaving the arms off those that are affected and see how that works.

I'll post some pictures etc

Acrylic Paint Removal

A link about removing paint from plastic figures;

http://stason.org/TULARC/crafts/miniatures-painting/6-How-do-I-strip-paint-Miniatures-Painting.html

I will be trying a pine disinfectant from my local store. I will add a review later.

Workbench

Another visit to the model shop, I didn't know what a Burgundian Knight was but I liked the picture on the box and I have a slight interest in Crusades, Templar and Tuetonic Knights so I thought I may as well get a model :o).

After a bit of research I have found the following French historical tale about a Burgundian Knight "THE CAREER OF A KNIGHT-ERRANT" by Charles Morris.

Here is a quick extract;

Such a knight was Jacques de Lelaing, "the good knight without fear and without doubt," as his chroniclers entitle him, a Burgundian by birth, born in the château of Lelaing early in the fifteenth century. Jacques was well brought up for a knight. Literature was cultivated in Burgundy in those days, and the boy was taught the arts of reading and writing, the accomplishments of French and Latin, and in his later life he employed the pen as well as the sword, and did literary work of which specimens still survive.
In warlike sports he excelled. He was still but a youth when the nephew of Philip the Good of Burgundy (Philip the Bad would have hit the mark more nearly) carried him off to his uncle's court to graduate in knighthood. The young adventurer sought the court of Philip well equipped for his new duties, his father, William de Lelaing, having furnished him with four fine horses, a skilful groom, and a no less skilful valet; and also with some good advice, to the effect that, "Inasmuch as you are more noble than others by birth, so should you be more noble than they by virtues," adding that, "few great men have gained renown for prowess and virtue who did not entertain love for some dame or damoiselle."

READ MORE > Charles Morris

Painting Guide: 1/16 Netherlands Musketeer P1

One of my next projects is a Mini Art 1/16 model. Similar to the French Cuirassier, I enjoyed that project.
The model is very detailed and comes with its own Base.

I'll see how this model compares to the French one for fitting, I had to use a bit of green stuff on that one.

Horse Reins

The MiniArt kit did not provide any reins for the horse. After some investigation I have found out that you can use Lead Foil. The next problem was finding this lead foil as nowadays the wine bottle tops that were made of lead have now all been changed to Aluminium.

After some searching I have found this company so have placed an order.

http://www.scalelink.co.uk/

It can be cut with scissors or a craft knife, bent to your requirements and painted.

We will see.....

2 Future Projects

Visited F&S Scale Models today and got two more projects for the workbench;

For a diorama, 6 Templar knights

Painting Guide: Victrix 54mm British Pt1

PAINTS: Vallejo Model Colours (V), Revell (R), Games Workshop (GW)

METHOD:

Complete 8 Soldiers in a session.

Undercoat:- As these are light model I have used Gunship Grey (R74) watered down.
Eyes:- Bleached Bone (GW)
Flesh1:- Base coat of Dark Flesh (GW)

Flesh 2: - Medium Flesh (V), Basic skin tone (V) Ogryn Flesh wash (do not cover the eyes).
Uniform Jacket 1:- Undercoat jacket with Scab Red (GW)

Hair: Scorched Brown and Bestial Brown highlights.

Painting Guide 1/16 French Cuirassier Part 2

The Horse can be seen in Part 1

Ensure paints are watered down.
Paints used are Games Workshop, Revell and Vallejo.

The figure has been built and Green stuff used to fill any areas that are not flush and to remove mold lines etc.

Undercoat - to try and bring out the colours of the uniform I used Gunship Grey (R74)
Eyes - Bleached Bone (GW), Black Pupil
Flesh 1 - Dark Flesh (GW), shape the eyes. Wash with Ogryn Flesh.
Hair 1 - Scorched brown (GW), blended in to Dark Flesh.
Flesh 2 - Medium Skintone (V) Wash with Ogryn Flesh
Flesh 3 - Dry Brush Basic Skintone (V), wash with Ogryn Flesh

Hair 2 - Higlight with Bleached Bone and wash with Devlan Mid.

Body:

Arms - Oxford Blue (V) base, watered down Medium Blue (V) then a Royal Blue (V) Highlight

Collar/Trim - Red (V) and Gold (V)

Breast Plate - Boltgun Metal (GW), highlight with Mithril Silver (GW)

Wash gold with Badab Black and Silver with Devlan Mud.

Saddle:
Undercoat, Gunship Grey (R74)

Fur 1 - Beige (R89)
Fur 2 - 50/50 Bleached Bone and Beige. Highlight Bleached Bone. Wash with Gryphonne Sepia, When dry highlight again with Bleached Bone.
fur 3 - Wash with Devlan Mud, highlight with bleached bone then mix to pure white.

So far;

Trim - Red (V)
Under Blanket1 - Beige (R)
Under Blanket2 - Oxford Blue (V) Highlight Royal Blue (V) Trim Astronomican Grey (GW) and White (V ) highlight.

Wash with Devlan Mud (GW)

Boots: Chaos Black (GW)
Stirrups: Boltgun Metal and Mithril Silver highlight (GW)

Painting Guide 1/16 - Horse Part 1

This is a MiniArt 1/16 model.

Preparing the horse for gluing together took quite a while as the molds did not meet and needed to be heated in boiling water and straightened so they fitted better. Lots of Milliput and Green Stuff was used to fill gaps.

Ensure paints are watered down.
Paints used are Games Workshop, Revell and Vallejo.

Horse:


Undercoat - Chaos Black (GW)

Flesh 1- Very diluted Scorched Brown and Badab Black Wash

Flesh 2 - Paint on very diluted Dark Flesh, dry brush Dark Flesh, ensure there are darker areas. Wash with Badab Black all over. This helps to keep the darker areas dark.

Flesh 3 - Paint on very diluted Bestial brown, dry brush again and wash with Badab Black.

Mane/Tail - Wash with Badab Black. Highlight (Dry Brush) with 50/50 mix of Black Chaos/Astronomican Grey then add slightly more Astronomican Grey and highlight again. Wash with Badab Black to tone down if necessary.

Socks/Head Markings - Using Grey/Black mix bry brush around sock area and head markings, slowly bringing up to pure white.
Tack - I have painted Black in this case. Usually I'd go for a leather brown. Wash with badab Black. I will be looking for some black plastic or leather laces to make the reins with.

Painting Guide - Raiders of Middle Earth

The first twelve were painted in 2009 and used the following paints;

Undercoat - Chaos Black
Eyes - Bleached Bone (GW)
Flesh - Tallan Flesh (GW) Highlight Dwarf Flesh (GW) Diluted wash Ogryn Flesh
Cloak - Dark Green (R39) Highlights - Dark Angels Green (GW)
Uniform - Catachan Green (GW), Leather Brown (R)

I only have a completed picture >

The next twelve have Bubonic Brown uniforms;

Undercoat - Chaos Black
Cloak - Dark Green
Bottom Uniform - Catachan Green

My Workbench

Workbench February (2)

Victrix British

Horses

Haradrim Raiders

6 Riders undercoated with Chaos Black.

Painting Guide - Victrix British Centre

Ensure paints are watered down.

See "General Painting Techniques" in the painting guide section.

Undercoat - Gunship Grey (R74)

Eyes - Bleached Bone

Flesh (1) - Tallarn Flesh, shape the eyes.

Workbench February

I have a set of Perry French Line Infantry as WIP 16 completed so far 26 to go.




On my workbench this month I have;

• VICTRIX British Waterloo Infantry Centre (12 28mm Figures prepared and undercoated Gunship Grey)
• GW Riders of Rohan (6 28mm figs 6 Horses prepared and undercoated Chaos Black)
• GW Mordor Orcs (8 28mm Figures prepared and undercoated Chaos Black)
• GW Haradrim Raiders (6 28mm figs 6 Horses prepared and undercoated Chaos Black)
• GW Raiders of Middle Earth (12 fig to complete)
• GW Gandalf the White (Foot and Mounted) Metal

I use a mixture of paints, Vallejo, Revel and GW paints to achieve all the colours I need.

Completed

Figures completed in 2010

1. Gandalf the White (Foot GW)

Figures completed in 2009

• Witch King on fell Beast (GW)
• Troll Drummer (GW)
• 24 Warriors of Minas Tirith (GW)
• Minas Tirith Commanders 2 figs (GW)
• 24 Morannon Orcs (GW)
• Morannon Orc captains 2 figs (GW)
• Aragorn the King of Gondor 2 figs (GW)
• Perry French Line Infantry 16 completed 26 to go.
• Warg Riders 3 figures 6 wargs (GW)
• 12 Rangers of Middle Earth (GW) 12 to finish.

Total = 94 figures completed. I'll do better in 2010 :o)

Have a look at the painting guides.