"General Colbert & Red Lancers painted by Sascha Herm!" Topic

Hi all,

I have finished my rendition of General Colbert, Red Lancer Command Group and a Trooper. They were originally planned to create a little Vignette but in the end I decided against it and based them individually. The Uniforms took me ages. The full dress Uniforms are spectacular but there is so much detail to paint. The red of the uniforms was painted using Andrea Red Paint set with additional highlights by adding GW Blazing Orange.

I also used Scale75's NMM Gold for General Colbert's & Trumpeter Uniform and Saddle. The Blue is Foundry's French Blue. I rather like the look of the Trumpeter's white speckled Horse and I am also quite happy how the Chestnut Horse turned out. The two Bay Horsed were straight from the Foundry Bay Brown set but I added Foundry's Chestnut B & C and also Scale75's Orange Leather to highlight Gen. Colbert's Horse further.

Flag and the Lance Pennant are from GMB.

I also tried, especially with Colbert's Base, to simulate a wild grass field in the Summer. I used four different Tufts. Not sure if I am 100% happy with it but I think it is passable.

I might finish some more Troopers to go with the others but first I have to finish some other Waterloo related Miniatures, ready for the 200th Annivesary.

I will probably add them to Ebay by the Weekend.

Here are the links:

General Colbert: link

Standard-bearer: link

Trumpeter: link

Trooper: link

I hope you like them. All comments are welcome.

Kind regards

Sascha
sascha-herm.com

Very, VERY Nice! Beautiful work!
Peter

Too beautiful!!

The trumpeter and his horse…………oh yes.

That picture, esp the grey horse, I save for my future reference.

The shading of the lancers, instructional.

This is a brilliant resource…………..The gold lace without using metallic paints……the highlights on the harness. Every picture is now on my PC to try to emulate this.

OK, let's be controversial. The bay horses have the muscles overdone. It depends on photography and the skill is incredible, to show in such relief, but they are not on anabolic steroids. I would suppress the shading. At the Newcastle/WHU game I watched the police horses unloaded, in case the home team lost and were relegated. These beasts were huge and magnificent. All were bays and (never realised this) all were dappled! But not with dark lines all over them……. I could not in a million years reproduce the effect shown and it is personal taste……..Oh I wish I had never started this because it is incredible work, but I hate the horses…other than the best grey I think I have ever seen in 28mm!

We lost 2-0 and Newcastle stay up. Fine.

That trumpeter and his horse…I hate this hobby. Just when you think "I have got this down to a fine art………….."

Sascha, you have talent……greater than your alter ego at the Little Big Horn….. It is a personal thing. I have nothing remotely like your skills, but I'd suppress the whites of their eyes and the definition of their muscles.

But this has been a tutorial for me. My Colbert from Perry…I may redo now……..

Thank you all for your kind comments.

@deadhead:
I appreciate your honest feedback (evenso it hurts sooo much ;-) lol)…only joking.

You are quite right. I am not always happy with the results of my other horses too and I can see it where you are coming from. I will have to try and do the next ones a little bit different and use less harsh shading / highlighting. Will keep you updated ;-)

Have a great weekend.

Kind regards

Sascha

Sasha,
I gotta tell ya, I think your figure painting (of that style of painting) is some of the best I've ever seen. I gotta hand it to Deadhead too, for being able to convey, in the most non demeaning way ever, the same way I feel, exactly, about the muscle definition of just about ANY animal when painting in this style. Camels, Mules, Horses, Goats etc… (I forget what some call it) I owned a horse for 20 years and rode her in 100's of ACW reenactments & she never(or anyone else's horse's) muscles ever looked like that! I just don't think it looks realistic enough. Especially the way you have your fig's painted. And I also wanna commend you for being wise enough to see & appreciate(without gettin ed off)what DH is saying & to look at not just your work but the real world all around us and learn from it. I echo his comment to you. You are a great painter & we just want our heads to explode when we see your next piece with those muscles toned down a bit! Thanks & keep up the awe inspiring work and thanks!
Peter

So we are saying that the horses' shading is too extreme, but the figures are realistic?

Must be me

Nice wargames figures, but not 100% convinced by the NMM – not sure it gives the impression, to me, of embroidered metalic lace.

But nice overall

Exactly what struck me. Figures just incredible. I don't think shading/highlighting overdone there. OK, not what you would have faced on the ridge of Mt St Jean I admit. Parade ground stuff…but that trumpeter………

The skill gone into the shading of the horses…just as amazing, but in this case way beyond reality and not needed. Now, I accept that photography is nothing like what one sees en masse in a wargame scenario. When I painted 1/600 and 1/700 aircraft carriers, I used grossly highlighted edges, on upper surfaces, because they were meant to be 2-3 inches thick, but, to scale, were 2-3 feet thick. All modelling is a compromise, but 28mm figs, personally…….. I think, less need to overdo it.

The metallic lace, without metallic paint. That is a brilliant topic on its own. I honestly think nothing works, but the effect shown here is better than I get with Citadel or Vallejo metallics. I look at artist's work in a gallery and see gold shining at me, but then realise I am looking at yellows/tans/brown/white reflections. That is what he has shown here……..

A brass breast plate for a carabinier, easy…….. try gold leaf! But the lace for a shabraque. It needs to be much duller than gold, or even brass. It is almost a dull bronze. It is fibrous, not a flat metallic sheet like armour….the end result is "matt dull gold" with bright, but not gloss, highlights and countless dark (Black? Brown?) lines to break it all up into a fabric effect.

That grey horse though. I moaned about the chestnut/bays, but I have never seen a better grey (and I think I am getting better at greys)