Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 29 Nov 2022 11:39 p.m. PST |
My lovely wife has bought me some nice new toys for Christmas, so I will be embarking on a new Napoleonic project in January. I'm a long time gamer but haven't ever played this period. I wanted to try some practice painting before launching into this project, being a new period, I've never painted before, so I got a couple of sprues of Perry Austrian plastics off eBay. Here is the first test piece. I've tried to simplify the painting as I'm going to be painting several battalions of infantry, regiments of cavalry and batteries of guns, for both sides, I've decided the mass effect is more important than individual figures. As such I started this guy off with an airbrush, to speed up the undercoat and base coat and then added a few washes and highlights and skipped painting the eyes. I think he has turned out pretty well just 15 more to practice paint now. edit the pictures are a bit bigger than I was expecting so you can see him really close up he looks better at a distance :)
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Whirlwind | 30 Nov 2022 12:53 a.m. PST |
He looks great! Very well done |
RittervonBek | 30 Nov 2022 2:59 a.m. PST |
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 30 Nov 2022 3:06 a.m. PST |
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14Bore | 30 Nov 2022 4:01 a.m. PST |
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Mr Elmo | 30 Nov 2022 5:27 a.m. PST |
Very nice but I caution against painting line troops to a high standard, what was said? 499 more to go. I would use something like Slapchop on the infantry and save the effort for leaders. Otherwise, happy gaming in 2027 😆 |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 30 Nov 2022 5:45 a.m. PST |
Mr Elmo@ thanks but err this was me cutting corners and speeding things up…. I plan to make 2023 the year of Napoleonics hopefully a year is enough time to paint two matched forces of roughly divisional size and build some scenery 🤞 |
ccmatty | 30 Nov 2022 6:47 a.m. PST |
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Flashman14 | 30 Nov 2022 7:22 a.m. PST |
Nice! I'm working on this box right now too (the shako one though). I won't do more Austrians at this scale but glad to have some around. |
robert piepenbrink | 30 Nov 2022 7:26 a.m. PST |
I wish my first painted Napoleonic casting had looked half so good. |
79thPA | 30 Nov 2022 7:28 a.m. PST |
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cavcrazy | 30 Nov 2022 8:11 a.m. PST |
Beautifully done. I especially like the 5 o'clock shadow on his face. |
Frederick | 30 Nov 2022 9:49 a.m. PST |
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IronDuke596 | 30 Nov 2022 10:15 a.m. PST |
Welcome to the world of napoleonic's and a very nice first effort indeed. |
DeRuyter | 30 Nov 2022 10:49 a.m. PST |
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Bashytubits | 30 Nov 2022 11:58 a.m. PST |
He looks great, for a first time you have excellent painting skills. |
Perris0707 | 30 Nov 2022 2:43 p.m. PST |
You have gone over to the dark side. |
JMcCarroll | 30 Nov 2022 4:26 p.m. PST |
Post pics when the unit is done please! Excellent job! |
Berzerker73 | 30 Nov 2022 5:41 p.m. PST |
That is a really nice paint job@ |
La Fleche | 30 Nov 2022 7:28 p.m. PST |
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 30 Nov 2022 11:20 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the encouragement guys. |
DOUGKL | 04 Dec 2022 9:14 a.m. PST |
Great start. You do realize you are starting down the rabbit hole of Napoleonics. |