Progress on the Electoral forces with the first of the Bern Ducal contingent, two infantry regiments and the hussar squadron.
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Back in the saddle
The lack of activity on the blog recently is due to a lack of activity at weekends generally..... Aside from the VWC, I have been unable to ...
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As the title says really.....the absence of blog posts is linked to a general lack of activity and if honest apathy. Only managed to get bac... -
On the last day of 2023, time for some introspection. The main reason I started this blog was to monitor progress; it's useful to be abl...
Very nice (and colorful!) start! What catches my eye are your sketches in the background. Please share more info on these terrific sketches.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan. The sketches are my very rough and ready experiments for what works for uniforms. While some are inspired or copied from historical ones, they are often tweaked to fit my ideas. It stems from the very start; I did some rough sketches for my ideas for armies. Bravance, being copied from Freikorps uniforms are virtually unchanged. Likewise, Argozia and the yellow faced red are there, as are the white with multicoloured facings of Estavia. As they went through changes, I ended up drawing some infantry or artillery figures, a charging cavalry trooper and a hussar and doing a load of photocopies. I can then play around with colour combinations, using watercolours, pens or crayons to see what works. A comparison of the drawings with the figures, shows there are often changes; the hussar received yellow lace and black fur trim instead of white; the infantry have yellow not white hat lace.
ReplyDeleteThe drawings are deliberately crude and mimic the naive sketches seen in the C18th.
Neil
Outstanding! Your sketches are brilliant.
DeleteToo kind Jonathan. They are very crude, but it's a good way to see what works. You may just be able to see some flag ideas as well.
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Nice progress so far! 8 miniatures a unit is pretty decent sized. 😀
ReplyDeleteFor Volley & Bayonet, it's the size of the base that's important; the smaller the scale of miniatures, the more there are. While I'd love 48 figure regiments, I have neither the space to deploy them, nor the patience to paint that many in a unit. You cut your cloth according to your means, in my case the available table size.
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They look great, you are inspiring me to get back on the painting horse.. Units look good; by chance I am using 8-figure units for Portable Wargame with the thought that they could be combined into 16 or 24 if space increases. Meanwhile they can be 2 or 3 battalions of the same regiment. .
ReplyDeleteDavid, thank you. If you tackle the Spencer Smiths I'd recommend either a black undercoat or black lining as otherwise they look a bit "flat" unless you spend a lot of time with layers of colour and highlights. I just go for a single block of colour and let the black show through between areas.
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