"AB Russian Generals 1812" Topic

here the AB Russian generals set, one piece castings, great castings – but must be very difficult to get the moulds last

Quite beautiful!

Mollinary

Puts mine to shame

Beautiful, Indeed! Your work on the horses is spectacular.

Well done! And, I thought I was OCD. :)

pjm

Very fine indeed!

Look great vonW!

Another reason to throw my paints and brushes out.

Fabulous and a unique style I think.

I shall be using these as a guide to mine. Excellent

Now there's some motivation to emulate! Well done, von W!

Perhaps one day you might share your techniques with us?

thanks for the kind comments – the technique is easy, horses not that difficult.

I discribed it already several times, I spray prime GW skull white, then apply a solid wash with a dark violet (mix of prussian blue and crimson – made from artist acrylics), that will give me deep shades and let details on the figures pop.

As for horses – for example I apply a coat of hobby acrylics, like Coat d'Armes, Vallejo, warpaint, whatsoever, lets say dark flesh, but I don't overpaint the deep recesses – so that the deep violett won't be over painted. Then (after the paint has dried) a sort of glaze with artist water colours (lets say burnt umber) is applied over the whole miniature horse, including the left out dark parts and then with a soft brush I gently lift off some paint to create the light, I find it easier when the water colour paint is still wet to avoid drying marks.

The horses, the green coats, the hats, boots, tack, plumes were painted in this way.
The underlaying acrylic paint has to be of course much lighter, like for green coats – light green, then a water colour glaze of a dark green.

For other colours I have to paint on top of the glaze a lighter coat of acrylics, the create a better light, like on the white, or red, or grey.

Great brush work! Is it me or are the horses hind quarters extremely small and underdeveloped?

Congratulations!
Nic EUREKA MINIATURES

Great and inspirational work Von W!! I love the horse colors, and the fact that some of them even look sweaty. They look so realistic that i can almost smell them!!:)
Attaman Platovs horse might be my favourite though…

Dr J

thanks for the comments on the horses, but they are quite easy to paint with the technique I use, and those where I used as glaze – burnt umber or sienna – or a mix, as on Platov – provide striking results due to the power of the paints itself.