"AB 18 mm Austrian Infantry 1792 Regt. Schröder" Topic

So finally some time for painting

Austrian Infantry of about 1792 – 1800 – of the excellent AB range, as usual a pleasure to paint

a more closer look for the incredible amount of details of those figures, on some even the strap to close the cartridge box lid was sculpted, incredible – giving these figures real historical depth.

and some infantry colours –

Man, I love your work! Always a pleasure to see your latest efforts. Thanks for posting.

Gorgeous

Excellent! The wool colour of the uniform contrasting with the leather belts is rarely done and this looks great!

Stunning brushwork!

The AB FRW Austrians are exquisite little sculpts. I have painted many of these fine fellows and they are enjoyable to put paint to.

Great looking Painting with a lot of extra detail and shading. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful!

If you don't mind my asking, what is the facing color called?

yowza!

Very nice indeed vW.
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thanks for the feed back.
the facing colour is brown, really a bit silly to chose it – but a discussion in the past about the facing colours of regiment Nr. 7 – blue – versus brown – got me very much interested to start researching the Austrian army.
The regulations say dark brown, but I started to paint the dark colours brighter, otherwise one hardly can realize the hue of the colours at all.
As for belts versus coat, I find it very rewarding to show the different qualities of whites – warm versus cold – to enhance the contrast, the same for shoes and leather (blue grey) versus warm black for gaiters and Kaskett.

yes, great stuff there VW

Lovely painting Von W!

Wow, very nice.

Always nice seeing quality figures beautifully painted :)
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vonWinterfeldt: Only wish I could do that!!! Don't think I have ever seen two different shades of white done like that in that small a scale before. Thanks for the photos, John Miller

thanks for the feed back and kind words, from a lot of modellers whose work I admire as well.

@John Miller

As for the "whites" – I did already

see

TMP link

I think you could do this as well, just two different "white" one warm (add ivory to the white) and one cold (add bluegrey to the white) – it is really nothing that special

Outstanding!

Von Winterfeldt, you don't do commission work, do you?

Sorry to be a curmudgin, but I don't like the dark black edges of the belting. To me it looks like the edge of the 1/4" thick belt is ribbed in black, whereas I think it should just show a change in white colour or a little shadow, as from a magic dip. I would guess that at 1:1 this black edge on your figures would be about 1/2 inch wide and I don't think that looking at the figures from arms length would change that opinion.

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Please rethink that comment. These are 18mm AB miniatures and the detailing is outstanding. Magic dip is not painting, its a way of doing quick wargame-ready miniatures. These are properly painted, and at this scale having the crispness of the edges that von Winterfeldt has achieved is not easy. Its damned hard! I know, because its something I struggle to achieve.

Just to clarify, the top picture shows up on my monitor with the figure bigger than actual size. That is the scale that is being painted. Not 28mm.

Very, very nice!! White is one of the hardest colors to get right and you have done it perfectly!!

Fantastic as usual. The details are perfect – the shading works really well

Do you have any hints for the eyes ? I am having difficulty getting them to look darker than the rest of the face without seeming too large (painting ABs)

I am experimenting with using paynes grey (actually using an ink) instead of black for the black-lining

If you look at the monitor from the other side of the room, the black lining on these figures works very well. You might get the effect better viewing the image on a phone

John

Great brush work!

Absolutely smashing. Can't get my mind away from the flag poles . How may I ask do you do them?

As I wrote in another thread – I like deep shadows, in case 1968 Billsfan doesn't like it – no worries – in the end it will be a matter of personal taste.

In fact they are not black lined, I spray the figures for undercoating with GW white – and then for German Austrians I used a glaze of burnt umber artist acrylics paint, when I paint on the straps – I don't paint directly to the edge but let stay some of that glaze.

In case I did not work cleanly – I use paynesgrey (artist water colours) – as jwebster points out as well, to create a better definition.

As for the eyes, I also leave some of the undercoat and don't paint them, otherwise I suggest to use artist water colours burnt umber or sepia for their hollows or recesses, you can easily take any excess part off with our brush whithout problems.

As for the poles see

TMP link

All the pain is of no use there most part will disappear when mounting the colours.

Thanks for all the comments, highly appreciated.

Somehow I missed these originally, but excellent work VW.

I'm with you on the darker shadows as this does work better with figures that are looked at on the gaming table at a little more distance. If I was painting for a diorama that will be looked at more closely, then I would go with lighter shadows.

Excellent. Nice work.