| Tango01 | 31 Oct 2016 9:37 p.m. PST |
Superb job here!
From main page
link Amicalement
Armand |
| Dr Jeckyll | 01 Nov 2016 1:44 a.m. PST |
There is a well recognicable style to those minis:)
Scott does great work indeed!
The trumpeter horses in particular are beautiful.
The colors are warm and the minis really stand out.
Thanks for sharing Tango! Dr J |
| steamingdave47 | 01 Nov 2016 9:42 a.m. PST |
Agree that these are very nicely and neatly painted, but I do have a problem with the green colour used. Russian uniforms were described as being of a "dark green colour", so dark that some observers referred to it as being almost black. I have seen a lot of figures with jackets painted in the sort of mid- green that we see in these examples. Has anyone any evidence, such as museum samples etc, which would support one "green" over another? |
| Tango01 | 01 Nov 2016 10:16 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed them my friends!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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| Major Function | 01 Nov 2016 12:30 p.m. PST |
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 deadhead  | 01 Nov 2016 12:50 p.m. PST |
The shade of green. Something often discussed here. The scale effect. These are 18mm figures and I will bet the photo lighting has enhanced the colours anyway. My short foray into 18mm with AB miniatures, I painted the Tsar and King FWIII in the darkest green and blue respectively. My own concoction, with black added! It just about works for 28mm…for 18mm they looked black, though. Highlighting was needed not just for 3D, but to see them! In the photographs their colours are far more vibrant than my eyes detect. If you gave me a 75 year old tin of AP507B paint that had just been found in a dockyard, I could not paint my 1;350 model HMS Hood with it……….it has to be lighter to look right |
| Widowson | 01 Nov 2016 1:07 p.m. PST |
Probably accurate for the early period, 1805-07. At that time they were "light green." |
| steamingdave47 | 01 Nov 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
But that is the 1812 uniform, earlier uniform had a rounded crest to helmet.
Not convinced that "scale effect" justifies such a light green. Lighting may have had an effect on the photo colour reproduction.
I have painted several hundred Russian infantry and dragoons in 28mm, 15/18mm and a thousand or so 6mm. I always use a dark green and I think they look "right" when judged against contemporary illustrations and prints. As noted in my original post, contemporary observers thought the green was almost black anyway. |
| Marc at work | 02 Nov 2016 7:01 a.m. PST |
Dave – that is the joy of this hobby. Your black Russians look right to you. Whereas I like my Russians (and Scot's) to look green to my eye on the table so I know they are Russians. I have Brunswick for black (and funny, but although there are commentators who refer to the Brunswick corp as being like a funeral, I haven't seen the same for Russians). So personally, I am not going to overworry about the exact shade. And would love to own Scot's figures. YMMV |
| Scott MacPhee | 02 Nov 2016 11:14 a.m. PST |
Yes, I painted the green much brighter than it actually was. Partly that is my own inclination (I paint my own Russians the same way), and partly it was by request of my patron. If I painted these in an accurate color, they would indeed look black on the tabletop. The look I was going for: link |
 Mserafin | 03 Nov 2016 9:51 p.m. PST |
The Czar will be so pleased… |
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
