"vallejo paints for Swedish musketeer" Topic

Guys,
Once again need your help.Treated myself to a 40mm Drabant Swedish musketeer 1702…blue and yellow classic combination..BUT..struggling to match these with vallejo paints.

Any suggestions????

Thanks for your help\assistance in advance.

Regards

Swedes tended to get uniform cloth from wherever it was cheapest so I'd expect there to be quite a wide variation.

Blues usually are duller and greyer than you might see in prints or illustrations – they may not have started out that way but they'd fade fairly quickly.

Most info I have seen makes Swedish blue coats mid-blue without the purplish tinge you might expect from using Indigo dyes. Vallejo Dark Blue (which isn't very dark at all) I have used on smaller scale figures looks fine but I'd use that as the middle colour in a triad if that's how you work.

Yellow is difficult – possibly a mix of flat yellow and goldbrown. Not as bright as you see in some sources but not too dull either.

Thanks Gladis good starting point and will try these combinations out on some 'scrap' figures i have lying about.

Cheers

It is Gildas – Gladys is the memsahib.

Apologies Gildas to you and the memsahib.

For a suitable dull but not completely washed out yellow I've had good luck with lemon yellow base and dark sand highlight. Sounds odd but looks pretty good.