"Napoleon at Waterloo painted by Sascha Herm" Topic

Hi all,

I was able to take some pictures of my Napoleon at Waterloo, which I finished a few weeks back and thought I share it with you.

Here is the link to my pictures: link

Funnily the white horse was quite a challenge for me. I needed a couple of attempts before I got the results I was looking for. In the end I used base of GW Graveyard Earth, Foundry Arctic Grey, GW Chaos Black and Skull White. Used a little more Graveyard Earth and Black as the Shade and added more white to the base until I reached pure white as the last highlight.

Napoleon's Coat was painted using a mix of Andrea's Slate Grey, GW Scorched Brown and Black ( 3:1:1) as an base. I added more & more black / brown as an shade and mixed GW Elf Flesh, GW Boneyard and White ( 1:1:2) to my first mix to highlight the grey.

I decided to increase the height of the base to give an impression of an elevated position as Napoleon probably wanted a good view at the Battlefield. I used different sizes of tufts & grass, as I tried to make it look like an full and rich looking field. I dry-brushed them with a mix of Andrea's Napoleonic Green and Scorched Brown and use various lighter shades of green to highlight it all.

I hope you like him. Comments are as always very welcome.

With kind regards

Sascha
sascha-herm.com

Sasha, inspirational. I appreciate the 360 degree views so that your art work may be viewed from all around. Thank you for sharing your techniques and paint codes as well.

Once again fantastic work from a true artist! Thanks for sharing its always inspiring to see such beautiful brushmanship, if only my stuff looked half that good.

Excellent work and thanks for sharing the technique, especially that of the horse.

Cheers,

Greys are so difficult to paint, but yours (Marengo?) is wonderfully done!

That is not a very attractive horse (the model that is, not your painting of it). Who makes this?

And the NMM shabraque – were you satisfied with that effect? Do you think it is better than "normal" metalics, or were you experimenting with this piece? I ask as it looks to me that it lacks "texture", so looks more like cloth than gold lace. But would be interested in your thoughts please. Thanks.

Thank you all for your kind comments!

@ Marc the plastic fan:

About the Horse:
Well, the horse came with the figure and they are from Perry Miniature. Is one of their typical horse sculpt but there were many casting issues with both, Rider & Horse. The face in particular of Napoleon was a Nightmare as his left side was miscast and asymmetrical.

About the Shabraque:
I took some inspiration from that side: link

I felt that real metallic colours would not really work. I still have few problems to get the right shading and highlighting right though but I rather like the results ;-).

Kind regards

Sascha

Sascha – that is an interesting site :-) Interesting that the horse is a Perry – I thought it was rather fat around the cheeks, and I thought they would be better. the casting issues have been mentioned before – seems some people get rubbish, others get no problems.

And when I went on your blog I saw you had taken a year off due to issues, so it is nice to see you painting again, and I hope you are enjoying it once more.