We all have our crosses to bear, and Prussian Landwehr in particular. I was hoping to get the first half-battalion of the 5th Westphalians finished today, but all my time was used up painting their fiddly little hats!
Never mind, I've done the hard yards with this lot and they stand a very good chance of being finished by the end of next weekend.
Cheers
WM
Never mind, I've done the hard yards with this lot and they stand a very good chance of being finished by the end of next weekend.
Cheers
WM
Impressive, are the crosses white squares with fine black indents painted in each corner?
ReplyDeleteI hope to have the "Jeffrey lancer det" done by next weekend (there's only four of them) and then it's time for something more serious, a French line battalion for which the flag is already in train.
They are indeed, Rob. I'll have to go back and do my test figure like this. He looks a bit too much like he's serving in the Luftwaffe at the moment.
DeleteBy "Jeffrey lancer" I assume you refer to the HH French Line Lancers on the cover of "The Napoleonic Wargame" by G.W. Jeffrey (a very strange book, I always thought). My salutations if you have found the same, which seem to be mirror images of the originals!
That is a useful idea for doing the white crosses.
ReplyDeleteThe Landwehr are coming along nicely and other than their hats look less fiddly than other Napoleonic uniforms.
I have just about finished 12 French Dragoons and they took me the best part of 4 weeks to paint. Perhaps I should do some Prussians next.
I tried it once before but it failed abysmally. I seem to have found the knack this time. This may be because the Garrisons have just that bit more of a hat to work with.
DeleteThe "simple" figures never seem to turn out that way in practice. I'm fooled very time by this, despite five years of disappointment.
12 dragoons in 4 weeks is a very impressive output, Mark!
Quite so. The "simple" figures are those where the casting has not done most of the work before painting. These fellows' hats are the business and really lift the unit (hence the Luftwaffe presence, perhaps?) Sorry. Will their buttons stay black?
ReplyDeleteThe buttons will be silver, Archduke. I always leave these till last, which is quite high stakes, I know, especially when using Humbrols...
DeleteNow I really do know how to make a Maltese Cross and there's no need to poke him in the eye! My own efforts have been far more basic but then the HH hats are rather small. This is shaping up to be another spectacular unit.
ReplyDeleteThe modern method is to accuse him of money laundering, or so I understand. He'll get really cross then.
DeleteThey are coming along nicely...
ReplyDeleteThere is certainly a lot of work in those caps... I was going to suggest that you painted something a bit plainer next... but your painting Napoleonics...;-)
All the best. Aly
I'm starting to dream about Brunswickers, Aly!
DeleteWM, It does my heart good to see you struggle to complete a unit. Somehow it makes this endeavor more real. Your end results are so stunning, it is nice to know that sometimes it takes a week to paint twelve hats! I had promised an update on some British dragoons and the 17th de ligne a couple of weeks ago, but I guess we can tell how far I have progressed on fulfilling that promise....
ReplyDeleteI did three of them last week, David, so it was only nine hats this week! That's Humbrols for you. If you try to rush 'em it never ends well.
DeleteComing along very nicely.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Matt, every bit of encouragement helps. Part 2 should go a bit more smoothly now that I've taught myself how to paint them. That's the theory, anyway.
DeleteOoo, they are very nice - pretty you might say. Quite a striking looking unit.
ReplyDeleteThank you, AP. Those crosses are a bit like shamrocks to my eye, and what with the green facings and everything I'm starting to think of them as Irish Prussians.
DeleteA lot better than my own 'wargames standard' figures.
ReplyDeleteThey're such brilliant sculpts that I just had to lavish attention on them, Rob. It's a very slow business, though. These won't be finished for weeks.
DeleteThose crosses were the first thing that struck me when I clicked on the image, I thought they just had to be well defined on the castings! Clever method I must say Matt. Great figures.
ReplyDeleteThey are actually inscribed on the castings, 'Lee, but so faintly they're invisible under a couple of coats of Humbrol!
DeleteWorth all of your fiddling Matt(!) they look bloody superb!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Jim! There's still a fair ways to go.
DeleteLovely figures, and impressive work with the crosses on their mutzes. I tried to do the same on some MiniFigs 15mm landwehr years ago and made a real has of things, finally giving up the ghost and painting over the various attempts with blue and leaving it at that. Yours look great.
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
I was inspired to do these after seeing a blog where the chap had succeeded in putting crosses like these onto 15mm figures, albeit rather more successfully than me, Stokes!
DeleteExcellent job n those fiddly little hats!
ReplyDeleteThank you, CN! It's been such a long time since I painted any Landwehr that I'd forgotten how difficult their hats were!
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