| stoneman1810 | 28 Aug 2014 9:32 a.m. PST |
Just finished for a client – AM 18mm French 7th Hussars. (The Elite Company w/ Officer & Trumpeter has been shipped prior to taking photos.
Also, A French Line Infantry Mounted Colonel from my collection.
Thanks for looking!!
John
|
| marshalGreg | 28 Aug 2014 10:12 a.m. PST |
WOW!
18s that look like 28s! Sweet! Good to see 15/18s live and well. MG |
| Sebastian Palmer | 28 Aug 2014 11:47 a.m. PST |
|
| cavalry47 | 28 Aug 2014 11:56 a.m. PST |
Very Nice indeed lovely detail. |
| ironicon | 28 Aug 2014 12:19 p.m. PST |
My favorite Hussar unit.Great painting. |
1st502Strike  | 28 Aug 2014 12:40 p.m. PST |
It's really great to hear all the wonderful feedback on this unit. I'm happy to say that this is my new unit and John did an excellent job on the painting. |
| RuLane | 28 Aug 2014 1:01 p.m. PST |
Your horse shading is especially superb |
| paulalba | 28 Aug 2014 3:23 p.m. PST |
lovely figures, what paints did you use for the light chestnut horse colour? |
| stoneman1810 | 28 Aug 2014 5:23 p.m. PST |
Hi, paulalba. I always paint horses with artist's tube oil paints – Winsor & Newton.
The horse is first "under painted" with acrylics. Then "over painted" with oils.Raw Umber, Red, Yellow, and in some cases White mixed to the desired "middle" tone. Then mix 2 darker tones and 2 lighter tones. The darkest tone is painted next to any harness straps and in the deepest part of the horse which would be in shadow. Then adjacent to that a slightly lighter tone. Then the middle tone followed by the 2 lighter tones – the lightest being on the very top surfaces. Then, I use a very soft makeup brush to blend all the tones at their edges.
Then I go back and deepen the shadows and redo the highest parts with a very light color – in this case yellow lightened with white. Then use the little makeup brush in a stabbing motion to blend. Sometimes this is repeated 2 or 3 times.
This is a very, very time consuming process – but it does produce subtle graduations of color which are basically impossible for me to achieve with acrylics alone.
Years ago Shep Paine produced a book published by Kalmbach books entitled (I think) Painting Model Soldiers. This technique was used on 54mm and larger figures – I have just adapted to the smaller scale figures.
Regards,
John |
| paulalba | 29 Aug 2014 4:02 p.m. PST |
That's an incredible amount of work you put into your figures john, still it really is worth it. Superb figures, Pure inspiration! |
| stoneman1810 | 29 Aug 2014 4:12 p.m. PST |
Thank you guys. I really appreciate the compliments. |
 deadhead | 29 Aug 2014 11:46 p.m. PST |
I am shamed by the description of horse painting. The idea of waiting days for oils to dry……even if it does allow the kind of blending achieved here. By the time I have modelled the conversions, painted the figures, planned the bases, the poor horses are my last priority. They all end up as bays if at all possible as easier to do! Marvellous stuff. Such a display always raises the comment that they look good enough to be 28mm. Strikes me that the smaller scale figures are often sculpted in better detail (and anatomy especially) than their bigger cousins. Superb painting |
| Chanzy | 30 Aug 2014 5:48 a.m. PST |
I second the above, beautiful work on these! |
| britishlinescarlet2 | 30 Aug 2014 6:54 a.m. PST |
|
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
