"Victrix British Peninsular Infantry" Topic

3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot, "The Buffs".

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WOW, really great job!

Nice troops

Look good! Your table looks like mine, only mine is covered with my wife's stuff. :(

Great looking figures.

Thanks for sharing

Craig

They look really great! Thanks for the tutorial.

I experimented with a French set, and used a dark brown acrylic spray paint to undercoat. It helped with shadows, edging and the like. The paint was thrown out in the clean up to move 1,500 miles, but we have not sold, and I might try that again. Never based in black, then overlay with white.

I understand that some gamers do not undercoat plastics at all when using acrylics.

GdeP

@Garde de Paris

For hard plastics like the Victrix offerings I usually undercoat in a darker shade of whatever the main colour is and then basecoat in the main colour.

For French I would use a deep dark blue and then a less dark blue, and carefully use grey then white for pantaloons.

For soft plastics I always undercoat with an acrylic varnish before any paint. A final coat of acrylic varnish seals all the paint in between and helps minimise the flaking of paint which is common with soft plastics.

For both hard and soft plastics I always wash figures in soapy water first to remove any mould release agent.

I am going to have to try your method. "Some day" I will buy another box of centre company figures to do as the 5th Northumberlands (gosling green facings);and the 27th Inniskillings – another bluff-faced regiment.

I already have 32 for the 48th, buff faced, and even musket slings, crossbelts, some overalls. I worried about just buff and red, but shading and varied "buffs" made them effective.

Just can't fully abandon my years-old "classic toy soldier" preferences! Flat paints, dul-coated, then with semi-gloss on black leather shoes, shako brims and rear flap, bullet pouches and bayonet scabbards.

GdeP