| Mateus | 24 Jan 2017 8:34 a.m. PST |
More pics on my blog: link
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| dagc54 | 24 Jan 2017 11:05 a.m. PST |
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Joes Shop  | 24 Jan 2017 11:31 a.m. PST |
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| Texas Jack | 24 Jan 2017 12:14 p.m. PST |
Fantastic work! How many times have I told you that Mateus?  |
| HidaSeku | 24 Jan 2017 1:01 p.m. PST |
Very impressive work! Wow! I like the fact that the unit looks coherent and yet there is individuality between the various models and poses. Very well done! |
| Dr Jeckyll | 24 Jan 2017 1:40 p.m. PST |
Lookin good as always!! I have said it before and will say it again, I really like your choice of bright colors and your highlighting technique, it makes the figures pop out! |
| 14Bore | 24 Jan 2017 2:48 p.m. PST |
Recently did a few battalions of Russian militia and a foot cossacks. No where near your numbers or quality. |
 Yellow Admiral | 24 Jan 2017 6:06 p.m. PST |
Well done, as usual. When you get tired of Napoleonics, you can use these same guys in the Crimean War, WWI, various Russo-Turkish wars, the Russian Revolution… :-)
- Ix |
| Marc the plastics fan | 25 Jan 2017 12:16 a.m. PST |
Amazing quality and "look" to these. Well done. I can never get the photos on your blog to open properly, so I look forward to seeing your TMP posts Any chance of a grand parade where every Nap set you have painted is shown please? |
| repaint | 25 Jan 2017 2:40 a.m. PST |
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| Mateus | 25 Jan 2017 11:39 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the kind words, guys. @Marc, we are talking about a couple thousand models so far, pretty hard to set a parade display with them all at once (!). But I try every now and then to show each army in their current status, as I recently did with the celts. |
| Timbo W | 25 Jan 2017 11:41 a.m. PST |
Fabulous Mateus I have a box of these to do one day! Did you have any problem with the painting/undercoating? I noticed they were a different slightly rubbery sort of plastic to the usual 1/72 figures. |
| Mateus | 25 Jan 2017 2:20 p.m. PST |
@ Timbo, I don't like Hat's soft plastics, but there are a lot of units only they produce, so it's difficult to avoid them. What I do with my 1/72 plastics in general is that I avoid touching the models themselves once they're done. I only handle them by the bases. Even though Hat's soft plastics are a nightmare to clean mold lines of, they hold paint better, they endure some bending without the paint chipping off. Interesting fact: A year or so ago Hat did a pool to find out their costumers' prefered material, and the soft plastics won. Go figure… |
| Bill Slavin | 26 Jan 2017 7:39 a.m. PST |
Such a beautiful paint job!
I've been using a plastic-friendly spray undercoat (like the Krylon but better – a brand made and sold by Home Hardware, a Canadian hardware store) and it is proving very durable. As I see my hard plastic figures' bayonets bending and threatening to snap I'm a bit grateful for the floppy HaT plastic!
It is a murder to clean mold lines though -you're right. I use a surgical scalpel with some success. |
returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
