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30th Regt of Foot (Cambridgeshire): AW Miniatures Napoleonics

Hello all.

This is a more or less duplicate posting of another thread I posted under 'painting' and 'napoleonic discussion'. But rather than crosspost, I thought posting it under another title might appeal to a potentially different set of interests… I hope that's okay?

I've been trying out two things that are new departures for me: using Quickshade to bring out detail, and protecting my figs with lacquer. I've tried it all out on a unit I'm not too precious about, some 15mm AW miniatures British Peninsular troops (my main area currently is 6mm Russia 1812 Napoleonics).

I've painted the figs as the 30th Regt of Foot, or Cambridgeshire, for a bit of fun, as that's my local town, and I'm toying with a scenario of a local sort that could involve them…

Here's my favourite of the pics I've just posted on my blog:

The blog post (there are two actually) is here:

link

I'm a drummer myself, and was disappointed that there's no info in Franklin's British Napoleonic Uniforms on the drummer's outfits. So I did a kind of generic drummer look.

Cheers

Seb

They look good. The shade brings out the lines without masking the colors.

Good work

Thanks Louie!

That does seem to have worked well, and you've avoided the heavy spray-tan look on the faces (on the blog) that I've seen too often. Which tone did you use?

Deephorse: Thank'ee… & I used the Dark tone

Louie: it occurs to me, on re-reading your comment, that I should mention that the initial coat of Quickshade really did knock back, or 'mask', the colours a lot.

The minis looked very dull indeed. I had to go back over the reds, greys, and various other little bits, to bring back some zing to them…

Right, I think I would have started with the lightest tone to see how it went.

This is all I could find on the 30th Drummer

link

Paul :)

Dibble: thanks for that. Luckily for me I did more or less exactly what's illustrated on that link you posted. Mind you, one wonders how they got that info, given that someone as obsessive as Franklin could find nothing.

Deephorse: sorry for addressing you as Louie in my previous reply. I only have the dark tone. I bought it three or four years ago, and I can recall my reasoning at the time: with limited funds, I thought I'd go for a single wash that would hopefully suit all my needs. Having begun using it (finally), I feel I made the right choice.

That's OK Sebastian, I didn't realise that you had done so. It made sense as a reply to Louie too.