"Please come share your opinions..." Topic

Hey all!

Okay, because I am desperate… I made a poll on my blog about whether you think the teddy bear soldiers I am painting should all be the same color, or whether they should be a bunch of different colors, or even if just the musicians should be different colors.

I am leaning towards making them all the same color except the commander… I figure the musicians are going to have reverse color jackets so they will stand out already… but I don't know!

So please, any help is welcome… and happy Thanksgiving for the Americans out there!

Even the Ewoks were different colors. I get bored painting the same thing over and over again . Make the all different . PS happy turkey Day

As I said on the blog, officers should poar bears, as they are badass

You could compromise, and make them different shades of the same colour.

Teddy bear soldiers?????

Bob

No the super secret 257th Grisley regiment of foot, used buy Cornwallies in Carolinas, 340 specialy trained brown bears, traied to used muskets.

I am doing some of the same for my daughter. I am going with a mix of colors ala Ewoks. I am going to keep the uniforms the same and am taking some of the crazier 18th century versions as inspiration. Teal, Yellow etc. This way they are uniformed but are more fun than your average Blue, red or white.

However, my cav that are on stick horses will all have the same color horse.

T

make them pink and red and paint stars and stuff on their bellies.

Here is a painting guide.
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I like to paint them with the same colour uniforms, including the officer, but with reversed colours for the musicians

Now, as to the bears themselves, I paint them in different colours – I paint the ensign light grey and the officers and musicians lighter colours than the "gun bears", as the Little Prince refers to the ordinary troopers

Here is the latest addition to the Little Prince's Army

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In case you did not guess, orange is his favourite colour

I have also painted up a bunch for a friend with white coats but with a variety of facings – bright pink is my favourite

Here is a march past

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And here they are being piped in by the Toy Soldier range pipers

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And don't forget to put buttons in the ears of Von Steiff's Regiment. You wouldn't want anyone calling you out on historical accuracy when you put them on the table.

Dang, tabletopwarrior already took my Carebears idea.

…Grumpy Bear was always my favourite.

I'd go with multiple colors and definitely agree with an earlier comment that officer's should be polar bears.

Who knows? as you expand your ursine strike force you might consider specializing by type – perhaps grizzlies for grenadiers, and black bears for foragers

Have a great thanksgiving

Miles
lairoftheubergeek.blogspot.com

fur:
'Political correctness' would have a mixture of furs in each unit…

Now, sergeants (as grizzled veterans) could have some grey (GB) / gray (US) hairs in their fur, and youngsters (that standard bearer could be a young ensign / cadet) a touch of yellow / blond?
With reference to 'historical precedents' mentioned in the previous thread
TMP link I find the idea of a panda drummer quite appropriate -and nice.

reversed coats (coat as jacket, not as equine coat! With fur under discussion, confusion is all too possible)
Reversed coats for musicians add a pleasant variety -and are far easier to paint than 'normal' coats with livery lace:
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Then you can give such 'laced' coats to musicians AND reversed coats to the officers (or sergeants), an old German tradition…

uniform colors
As for colors, football teams can be an inexhaustible source of inspiration; Google also for cheerleaders and marching bands (incl. the university / high schools ones) -though they often show a regrettable lack of imagination.

Looking forward to enjoy the bears in their painted metal

Well as there's no link to your blog….

No! No! Don't give me one

But if there was one I'd suspect this thread was a devious way of asking us to visit your blog in the first place.

Teddy Bears, however, should surely be in the uniform of US Roughriders of of the Spanish American War.

Noooo, no pandas. You gotta save those for when they make teddies in Qing-dynasty Chinese getup.

Hardly "devious"… I'd say rather obvious!:D

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Drat!

I clicked the fizzing link!

Musicians should be white bears, in contrast to the black and brown rank-and-file.

Soooo sneaky….

I also just posted my own "How to make a perfect Turkey Sandwich" post. Just FYI.

I'd have different colours for different regiments.

Just fumbled on the 'Flash Gordon' movie (1980) on TV: interestingly colorful, fittingly… fanciful uniforms there.
Unfortunately, googling for images or videos doesn't get useful pics, so you'd have to *watch* the movie…

Grizzli bear sergeant (or commander?) as grizzled veteran -of course…
White bear drummmer and panda fifer:
-'whiteness' based on 'historical precedent' (!): musicians often had white bearskins / busbies when the troops had black / brown ones; then, while the bulk of the troops were 'Whites', Black musicians were fashionable: combine…
-panda fifer: so many popular illustrations notwithstanding, infantry drummers were not specially young (oddly, those same illustrations show cavlary trumpeters of 'normal' age). Fifers on the other hand -at least in French service- were often (specially if not on the official establishment) enfants de troupe, soldiers' sons and orphans: the 'cuteness' of the panda would somehow 'translate' this youth…