18th Century Guy  | 02 Mar 2015 6:27 p.m. PST |
Here's a link to my blog that has some photos (sorry for the quality) of a recent unit I've completed. I painted one of the battalions while I sent the second out to be painted. I touched up the second when I got it back home. Flags are by Adolfo Ramos and figures are from FG MiniZ. 18th-century-studios.blogspot.com |
| de Ligne | 02 Mar 2015 7:13 p.m. PST |
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| VonBlucher | 02 Mar 2015 7:33 p.m. PST |
Great looking unit. If I wasn't so deepinto AB's 1806 Prussians,I would have jumped all over their Kickstarter campaign. |
| WKeyser | 02 Mar 2015 9:21 p.m. PST |
What scale are these figures?
William |
| AUXILIAPAL | 02 Mar 2015 10:37 p.m. PST |
They are 28mm figures and they are superb!
I have myself a Prussian army with AB figures, very nice army, full of character… |
| von Winterfeldt | 03 Mar 2015 5:39 a.m. PST |
looking very nice, just a hint, paint the field trousers in sort of unbleachted linen colour, the grey trousers were not that common in 1806 other than for Jäger. |
| Marc the plastics fan | 03 Mar 2015 6:17 a.m. PST |
vW – does that apply to the artillery as well? I have just painted the trousers grey, as that matched the pics in the H&C books (I know…), but not finished yest so can easily be changed if necessary. And limber riders – grey, linen or white? |
| 18th Century Guy | 03 Mar 2015 7:55 a.m. PST |
von Winterfeldt, I mix up the trouser color of my units just because of that. This unit just happened to be in the grey trousers. |
| VonBlucher | 03 Mar 2015 8:38 a.m. PST |
I've used unbleached linen for my Musketeers & Grenadiers.
But I used Grey on the Jagers and Fusiliers. It sets the lites apart from the rest of the troops. Marc
Limber rider breeches were white. H&C books are great, but I do find a few color issues. One such issue is the Von Beren Cuirasier they show almost as an orange color. It could just be darkened by the printing process though. |
| 18th Century Guy | 03 Mar 2015 2:47 p.m. PST |
VonBlucher, What would be a good color set for the Von Beren? If you were to use Vallejo paints which ones would you select? |
| von Winterfeldt | 03 Mar 2015 3:37 p.m. PST |
a good way is to look as to many contemporary uniform plates as possible, like Thieme, Horvath, Ramm, Doepler, Frank – it is certainly not an orange hue (Kolbe shows that in his 1803 field exercise print – but more of artistical reasons) but more like a yellowish buff, difficult to describe, but go to napoleon-online.de – site map for sources and you will be able to see for yourself. As for field trousers, usually a cheap material was used, seemingly unbleachted linen for the Prussian Army of 1806 and no woolen ones with the exception of the Jäger (green or grey – or a mix) – exceptions of the rule as always under field conditions certainly would have existed, I would go for unbleachted linen for the majority though. H&C books have several pitfalls for the Prussian army, escpcially saddle cloth of cavalry for the computer art of Joineau while the photos of Kling also in the book show it well, one has to cross check. |
| VonBlucher | 03 Mar 2015 6:10 p.m. PST |
18th Century Guy,
I used a bright yellow from the Polly S range to paint mine. I mixed in a little dull orange for a shadow and added white to the yellow as a highlight and to tone it down a little. Images of mine can be found on Paul's Blog, below is the link. link I agree with vW, also cross check as you do find inconsistencies with the colors. John |
| Marc the plastics fan | 04 Mar 2015 6:10 a.m. PST |
Interesting that H&C are not dismissed out of hand – I shall have slightly more faith in them. Mind you, I still use Lilian & Fred so what do I know  |
| VonBlucher | 04 Mar 2015 11:50 a.m. PST |
H&C are still pretty good forthe price and all the info contained. 18th Century Guy, Check down through the link on the yellow used in the Knotel print of Cuirassier.
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returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
