"Officer of the Navy Guard - Kingdom of Naples" Topic

I just finished my latest painting project. This is a 54mm figure of an Officer of the Navy Guard from the Kingdom of Naples. All painting was done with acrylics, plus some pigments for weathering the base.

That is super!

Nothing short of amazing.

Very well done! Who makes the figure?

Thanks. It's made by Romeo Models. They've got a number of figures from the Kingdom of Naples, among other Napoleonics. Lots of nice sculpts, but I've had a heck of a time finding good reference materials for colors!

I was very impressed right up until the picture with the quarter.

That flat out blows me away. Fantastic. I could've sworn it was 54mm.

Well done.

Spectacular!

Great figure. Now I want to raise a unit of Navy Guard from the Kingdom of Naples for my 25mm collection.

Where is the uniform info? Thanks

*chucks paint and brushes into the bin*

For gods sake….

p.s great work

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Thanks, guys. Jdpintex, he is a 54mm.

Bobgnar, here's the print I used as my main reference. I was told by a friend on another forum that the red should be an amaranth red, so not the shade shown below

Bobgnar, there's also some nice info on the Romeo website for this figure. Here's what they have posted:

Officer of the Navy, Guard of the Kingdom of Naples. (1811-1815)

The regiment of the Royal Navy Guard of Naples, consisting of one battalion, was created October 25th 1806 by Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples. Joseph, as well as the French Imperial Guard or the Kingdom of Italy, would also have to Naples this department, the symbol of naval power of his kingdom, even if most of the ships had followed Ferdinand IV in Sicily. When Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples in September 1808, with the taking of Capri, reinforces the credibility of the new Neapolitan navy.
In 1811, during the reform of the uniforms of the armed forces Neapolitan, sailors take the new uniform with all the details the same as those of grenadiers except where otherwise specified: Berrettoni Cordellina and plume with red, dark blue coat with collar, lapels of the chest, paramani and implications to code red (all with no edges), profiles of red pockets, cuffs patte of dark blue, yellow buttons. The collar was carrying two bands gallon yellow lapels and buttons of the chest, and the pockets of patte paramani had each gallon yellow bands with eyelets. Epaulettes rosse.Il battalion escorting the king at sea for each type of displacement. In 1812, 186 men were employed by the division napoletana in Russia as part of the 33rd division of the body of Marshal Augereau, commanded by Lieutenant General Destrees. In 1813, the division was assigned to the defense of Danzig. In 1814, participated also in the campaign against the Kingdom of Italy and France.

Sculpted by Maurizio Bruno
Historical research by Patrice Raynaud
Translation by Giuseppe Marseglia

Beautiful work. Can you give us a break down of what acrylic colours you used for the model, in particular to achieve the amaranth? It's a perfect….

Thanks! Sure, here are the colors I used. I paint with primarily Reaper Master Series acrylic paints, pretty similar to Vallejo though I like them a little bit more.

For the red I used a burgundy wine for the shadow, I think the dark purple gives the shadows a little more interest. From there I worked up to a violet red and then pale violet red. The colors below don't exactly match the paints, but what you see on the figure is mostly in the violet red to pale violet range. For some very top highlights, mostly on the plume, I mixed in a bit of a fair skin tone with the pale violet.

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For the coat I went from pure black to ritterlich blue, basically a dark Prussian blue. For the highlights I mixed in a medium grey instead of a lighter blue shade.

And for the whites I used off whites and some beige shades. I like to avoid pure white and greys. I started with bone shadow, then weathered stone, and finally leather white. It might not look like it below, but weathered stone is a pretty close intermediate shade between the other two. On my screen it looks a little too dark and too grey, but the actual paint is not. On a few select places I used pure white for highlights.

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Hope all of that is helpful!

By the way, when I started out I used the Andrea red paint set. The result was far too crimson so I had to redo it with the violet red shades

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Thank you very much for taking the time to let us all know your painting strategy. You definitely made the right choices and you skill with the brush is top shelf. Good luck with your future projects!!

This is why I don't do 54s anymore! Beautiful work!

Stunning, just stunning.