"Thirty Years War Danish Cavalry - Oil Wipe Technique" Topic

I took the opportunity to pick up two lots of Thirty Years War/English Civil War miniatures. After sorting through them I decided I would start with the cavalry as horses are always a challenge for me. I have been following several blogs that feature ECW troops and one in particular uses an oil wipe technique over the a colored primer before painting the details. I really like the looks of his troops so I decided to give it a go. He has some pretty straight forward instructions on his blog, Metal Mountain. Here are links to the tutorial on painting horses:
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Here is a picture of my results up through last night:

There are a bunch more posts on my trials and tribulations trying out this technique on my blog. The most recent you can find here:
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You want to read them all start here:
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It can be hard to find all the posts within the blog, if you go to the right hand window and scroll down to the keywords and click on "Danes" it will bring up all of them for you.

That's fantastic work. I may just try that with my 15s.
Thanks!!!

Looks great let us now when your finished so we can see the final result.

The washed-brown-as-a-basecoat looks far, far better that the black primed method, IMHO. And it's probably easier to do, or rather, takes less time to achieve proper look. I first used it on my ACW Confederates. Great effect.

Hopefully the oil paint will be dry enough for me to get down to some serious painting tonight. I think I'll try and keep my paint layers really thin to let the effect of the brown and dark brown undercoats really show through. I'm sure it will take a little experimentation so instead of my usual assembly line style I'll probably paint these guys one by one till I figure out what works best.

Try enamel priming and doing the undercoat in acrylic. It's less likely to come off with the oil wipe .