"Painting "bastion loop" lace on 28mm figures." Topic
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| John the OFM | 17 Apr 2014 11:52 a.m. PST |
I actually did that on Hinchliffe figures, and it was insanely tedious.
Luckily enough, the facings were plain, with no cast on "regular" lace.
Unless you want to shave the lace off the cuffs and lapels on the current figures, it is nigh impossible. So, my more primitive Hinchliffe 38th Foot have bastion lace, but my more modern Perry 42nd will not.
Nor do my 5th Foot LI and grenadier companies. A plea for "plain" cuffs! BTW, does anyone bother to paint the devilishly complicated lace patterns? |
| Chokidar | 17 Apr 2014 11:57 a.m. PST |
Yes.. and I second your plea for "plain" – in the Portuguese army of 1762 every  regiment's drummers had a different style of lace, arrangement of lace, and quite often shape of lapels. There is NO way you can do that without plain and freehand. |
| Sparker | 17 Apr 2014 3:52 p.m. PST |
42nd Black Watch? I reckon the enemy will recognize them by their Red Hackles soon enough… I took a dab of paint to 'em, but I didn't bother with the inner facing colour and what have you! Close enough for government work:
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| Supercilius Maximus | 18 Apr 2014 3:30 a.m. PST |
If it's any help, you needn't worry about the officers – it seems that gold thread was difficult to work into the bastion shape and consequently officers' lace was generally square (at least according to pre-Napoleonic portraits I've seen). |
| Meiczyslaw | 18 Apr 2014 7:01 a.m. PST |
I did it for 15s. I didn't do it for the line troops, but for one of the Foot Guard regiments. That's what the 10/0 brushes are for. |
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.
