As mentioned previously, I have been working on an extra heavy cavalry brigade stand for the kingdoms of Bravance, Hrvatska and Argozia to bring them up to parity with Arcadia.
Friday saw the Argozian Lieb Cuirassier muster out. These had various planned uniforms - green faced pink, then light grey faced green. A chance viewing of a book on Spanish dragoons provided a final uniform which was combined with a Prussian cuirassier unit - yellow buff faced green.
Saturday saw flags done for each unit, using some old computer generated experiments - forgetting of course that the red ink tended to bleed through white pints.....
Today has seen the bases cut out, magnetised and painted green with household emulsion test pot paint. Labels have been printed and I'm just waiting for the paint to dry fully.
I'd forgotten when removing from the temporary bases, the paint on the base peels and needs touching up....grr!
Anyway, with the glue still drying, here's the completed units:
For Bravance, the Emigre Cuirassiers (to join the two emigre foot)
Hrvatska gains the Royal Carabiniers
While Argozia is reinforced by the Liebgarde Cuirassiers
Not sure what's next in the painting queue as there are 20mm Indians and 30mm flats undercoated. Or I may clean up some more SK stuff.
Excellent work, Neil! Looks like you may have broken through the Winter Doldrums Barricade.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan. I got the first two units done last weekend and was determined to get the last done. It required a bit of pushing on through until I got near the end, when with only a couple of colours left it was almost pleasurable!
ReplyDeleteThe flags and basing take longer than you anticipate!
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The cavalry units are looking very nice. Good to see your Soldier King armies are progressing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter. I'm reaching the point where further increases will only come from the campaign. It's satisfying to have got the recrui and maintenance sorted.
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Lovely additions to the heavies Neil and the Argozian colour scheme works so well, very nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. That Argozian colour scheme took some agonizing. Up until the morning I painted them, I was going with grey and green (after abandoning green and pink) but it didn't "feel" right. Inspiration struck with an advert from a Spanish book seller and a book on Spanish dragoons with yellow and green as the cover picture.
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Lovely uniforms and flags Neil
ReplyDeleteThanks Jason. The flags were very loosely planned. I was looking for some white paper when I found the original computer designs. Two were blank, just an outline and border, Hrvatska was coloured in. I'd forgotten the issue of red bleeding through white.
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Very smart indeed. I've not had much luck with emulsion match pots of late in terms of usable colours. I did have a litre of earth brown paint mixed up at Wickes about 20 years ago though, which is very useful for terrain etc. and still going strong!
ReplyDeleteThanks Martin. Just before Wilco went under, I made sure I stocked up on colour test pots - green, various browns and sands and even a blue!
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More old school goodness!
ReplyDeleteThese remind me of the photos in the Lobisitz chapter of the War Game.
Thanks Chris. I spent a lot of time looking at photos of Charles Grant's figures. I realised he black-lined his and painted very distinctive gaiter buttons. I have tried to capture the look with a black undercoat which seems to make them "pop".
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Those look nice. Good job! 😁
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew. Not Quar I know, but my own particular world (much the same as you have developed for your anteaters).
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