"Turning out the Nightwatch, Part 3" Topic
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| Charge The Guns | 31 May 2020 2:32 p.m. PST |
I have just posted a blog entry about my ongoing project to paint up wargames figures to represent the characters in Rembrandts' "The Nightwatch". You can see it here: link You can see the next characters converted and ready for paining, along with a bit of background to each. Their backgrounds provide an interesting insight in to Amsterdam life in the early to mid 17th century. Here are three from this latest batch.
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| AICUSV | 01 Jun 2020 8:20 a.m. PST |
What a fun project, looking forward to seeing it complete. I stated one time to do a copy of a military painting in figures, only to get halfway through and find out the uniforms were wrong. You said in part three about the stripes on the flag, I counted 5 and not 3. The top edge has what appears to be a half width dark strip, the a yellow, dark, yellow, and another half dark at the bottom edge. Keep it up |
| Charge The Guns | 02 Jun 2020 1:11 a.m. PST |
@AICUSV Thanks! Good spot on the flag. You're right, it's is 5 stripes. I needed to check the brightened version to see it clearly. Interesting that these colours are echoed in details of the lieutenant's dress and his partizan's decorations. I think historical painters were less fussy about getting the uniform right than we wargamers are! :D |
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