"French and prussian artillery" Topic

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Nice work.

Very nice work!
How do you do your basing?

Nice work!
How do you do your basing?

Very nice work! \How did you find the Calpe figures mixing with Perry?
I also see the difference in Calpe guns compared to Perry.
At the moment I'm painting up some Calpe Prussian guns for our planned Ligny, Waterloo games.

These are some I painted awhile ago.
Bases are not finished.
Trying to get the Prussian blue guns looking right is tough.
What paint did you use?

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Thanks!

PhattRatt: I do my bases like this:
1) I "paint" the base with wood glue, then submerge it in a cupboard with a mix of different sizes of gravel. Let dry overnight.
2) I paint that throughly with Terracota (Americana paints), then drybrush (it´s more a wetbrush in fact) with Beige. I use Americana paints for the bases, as you need a lot of that Terracota paint (mixed with a lot of water in order to spread well over the ground).
3) I paint some spots again with wood glue, and that serves to attach yellowish-green artificial grass.

wrgmr1:
I am mixing Perrys and Calpe figures with no problems. The later are chunkier, but some men are as well :-)
As for the guns, there is certainly a difference. As I use less than 4 artilerymen per gun, I need to buy spare guns and the Perrys won´t sell them, so I resorted to Calpe. But now I also plan to get more artillerymen from Calpe. I love having varied poses, so I won´t stop buying from both firms. As for the guns, may be the solution is not to mix them within the same battery.

Prussian guns color: I use Vallejo´s Prussian Blue as a base, and then drybrush with Vallejo´s light grey-blue (I don´t recall the exact denomination now).

Talking about guns: You have to check the new French guns from Calpe: I think they are even better than their Prussian guns (specifically the wheels).

I haven't seen the new French guns, I'll have to check. Westfalia miniatures do amazing French guns.
I have a friend in Winnipeg who is selling off his unpainted Calpe collection at 30% off. He has lots of guns and crew left.
He posted it on Bartertown recently. Or put your e-mail in phonetics in your next post and I'll forward his to you.

Prussian guns, I did a similar paint job, Vallejo Prussian blue base and highlight with Americana true blue.

Thanks for posting.

Very nice work on these! :)