"18mm Westphalian Guard - Fusiliers, Grenadiers, Jaegers" Topic

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Funny thing, my favourites are the dull boring grey-coated figures, above all the occifer seen in rear view.

I have saved two images to inspire me. My efforts in grey end up looking like striped zebras, or else the highlights are invisible!

Great work and again how nice to see something "different"

Thank you very much my friend!
Gray is really a complex color. And I, too, he does not always immediately work!

Yes.Yes.

There is black mixed with white…that is grey

But then there is blue, yellow, especially green mixed in. It must all depend on whether it was a sunny day or mid winter….

and then the white balance on your camera of course.

But you manage to get the transition from dark grey to almost white, without any edges. We call them tide marks. The sharp lines where two colours meet. That "simple" grey coat is just so much more difficult that maybe a Polish Crimson lapel or facing colour

Let me grossly magnify just one figure that you showed and remember this is not 54mm scale. OK the highlights on the turnbacks on the coat tails next to him…I can do that. But there must be three, maybe four shades of grey on the coat. I could try that, but with lines where they meet.

Is it a dry brush technique? Is it just magic?

I still have much to learn here

May I recommend the Magic Sable article from Whire Dwarf around, what, issue 7 maybe.

It led to my early figure painting career with Games Workshop when they were still a fun company to work for

Sorry, I use the simplest old technique. The darkest gray, then the spots of the next in the triad, then the thinst stripes of the lightest.
No dry brush, no spills.
My Gray Triad (Vallejo Model Сolor) 165, 160, 155.

Maybe it's a triad?

OK, it works in your hands.

I tried to highlight the grey overalls of my Life Guards and KDG today. I used four shades of grey….the result?

Zebras……….Weep