"Painting 10mm Highlanders" Topic

So does anybody have experience painting 10mm (or even 15mm) highlanders? Any tips?

I found this link

I've painted 10mm highlanders, and to be honest I just left the tartans in the base green. At the distance 10mm simulates the pattern will be barely seen, plus with all the pleating in the sculpt, tartan lines just resulted in a jumbled mess.
I can find the pic of them I had, but I thought they looked fine.

I know that site, and struggle to paint 25/28mm tartan that accurately.

In 15mm I paint kilts with a dark blue base, green vertical and horizontal stripes and then possibly a second stripe colour depending on the tartan. White band to the bonnet with a few red dots, white base to hose with some diagonal pink strips (but no red dots – they looked odd when I tried).

For smaller figures I think that clibinarium has it right!

Anyone getting close enough to your figures to worry about that much detail should be reminded about social distancing.

Haha. Good tips. They are the 79th Cameron's. Thinking of dark blue base with a few green "dots" to represent the line junctures, but that might end up looking like polka dot skirts. Ugh….maybe just dark blue.

I literally finished a 60 man 10mm Black Watch battalion yesterday.

I hope to photograph it on Wednesday in the sunshine and blog it later the same day.

I'll flag it here.

Oh wow Jim, how did you do the tartans? My paltry 26 man battalion would look minuscule, ha.

Tartans? Who asked for tartans?

This is my 'impressionist' approach.

link

I just finished 24 Camerons in 28mm yesterday. I can't imagine doing in 10mm. A yellow over stripe is distinctive on the Camerons. Maybe 2 or 3 verticals and a horizontal (very thin) would give the impression.
Phil

Jim very nicely done! Are those Magister Militum? I think you have the right strategy there with the tartans.

Valmy, I think attempting 2 yellow lines on 10mm would be disastrous. Would just come out sloppy. For me, Less paint is more in the smaller scales.

Thanks.

These are Pendraken miniatures.

Very impressive Jim, well done!

Currently trying to do some 10mm for Killicrankie, tending to adopt the dark green/blue technique, with odd dash of red. Pointless in trying to recreate an exact pattern at this scale.
My 15mm Napoleonic Highlanders have blue base with overlay of green vertical and horizontal stripes. Have tried putting on the very fine yellow lines, but that is a step too far.