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Title: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Remington on August 24, 2010, 07:13:49 PM
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/RussianSailor.jpg)

Ever since the last Tactica and because of the wonderful RCW table by Lt.Hazel and his friends, my mates are RCW crazy. Usually I am fielding my WWI/Balkan Wars Greeks, when we play RCW and no one minds. Last Friday though we set up a beautiful table with about 80 RCW/BOB relevant miniatures and I finally felt jealous. :) Therefore I decided to paint up a ten man team of Russian sailors, their Maxim and the command (Copplestone order pending :D ). One of my mates even gave me one of his sailors, so I can try the painting scheme. The sticky on this forum helped a lot figuring out what to do and so did the painted miniatures by Steve Dean. Needless to say... I had a blast.I reckon that a small force of these will look quite nice on a table.

Excuse the photograph. Natural light wasn't helping and neither is the white pair of trousers.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Calimero on August 24, 2010, 07:56:53 PM

I think it look very good 8)
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: cuprum on August 25, 2010, 03:27:12 AM
Very much the figure looks well!
There is a small remark - on a jacket there is no top button in the left number. And on a peakless cap usually there was a gold inscription with the ship name.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Remington on August 25, 2010, 05:39:27 AM
Thank you for your kind words.

Cuprum, thank you also for the remark. Unfortunately the left button is missing. Maybe he lost it in a fight. :) I want to write the ships name on the cap, but I haven't found one yet. Not sure if it will still be readable in 28mm, but I'd like to have a name first before I try it. But I will try to find a name and write it on the cap asap.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Svennn on August 25, 2010, 08:12:20 AM
Very nice, especially the white trousers.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: cuprum on August 25, 2010, 08:28:14 AM
Here so the white uniform intended for work looked.
(http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/images/vmf11.jpg)(http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/images/vmf12.jpg)
 It is a photo shows a uniform for WW II, but distinctions to a uniform of the seaman on WW I, insignificant in details. The form not absolutely white:
(http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/items/rubaha_roba.jpg)
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Remington on August 25, 2010, 04:17:33 PM
Thank you for the picture. That white one is the  summer uniform then? I think my sailors will be mainly in their dark gear with the occasional white pair of trousers.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: cuprum on August 26, 2010, 01:56:41 AM
No, these clothes are intended for carrying out of various works. It is made from inexpensive, but a strong fabric. It could be used in operations on a land, but I did not see it on one photo. Your plans quite true.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Mark Plant on August 27, 2010, 04:08:46 AM
I think my sailors will be mainly in their dark gear with the occasional white pair of trousers.

That's what I went with. Most pictures show few white trousers.

Lovely pictures Cuprum, most appreciated.
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Photographer on September 07, 2010, 09:38:48 PM
I love the way your models are so clean and crisp!
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Rob_bresnen on September 07, 2010, 09:48:03 PM
nice painting - and nice white!  :-*
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Remington on September 07, 2010, 09:51:48 PM
Thank you guys. I wish my models were as crisp as Rob Jones' miniatures... But then again, I look at them from such a short distance, I might be too harsh on myself. :) Still, I am not entirely happy with the skin-tone, but working on it.  ;D
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Remington on September 08, 2010, 10:42:21 AM
I have been poorly most of the week and therefore I tried to paint a bit while I felt like it. This is the result. Again... not my best work. The faces feel rushed and the sheen on the blue shirts is annoying. I don't know what it is, but I am suspecting my new Humbrol Gloss Cote. I didn't buy the usual Nr 35 in a tin pot, but rather the 28ml bottle. I think they are supposed to be the same product, but strangely only the miniatures gloss coated from the bottle seem to have a problem with my matte varnish. Maybe 6 hours of drying time for the gloss cote is not enough even if the bottle says so. Anyway... I'll give it today to dry some more and will give the shirts another coat at night. Then again... I also need to find a new way of painting those blue shirts. Wasn't happy with that.

I tried to give them a ships name on the cap but my skill is simply not sufficient for such an undertaking.

Anyway, as these troops are supposed to be semi-speedpainted, it will have to do.

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Maxim3.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Maxim1.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Maxim2.jpg)
Title: Re: Russian sailor... Where's my vodka?
Post by: Mark Plant on September 08, 2010, 11:05:14 AM
I tried to give them a ships name on the cap but my skill is simply not sufficient for such an undertaking.

A requirement well above what it required. Most of the photos I have seen of Red sailors gives them peaked caps anyway, without ship's names, if they are even wearing naval caps. For all we know, some sailors removed the ship's names.

The faces are what really matter on a figure, and it would be hard to do any better than you have.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update Maxim Team)
Post by: Captain Blood on September 08, 2010, 11:34:25 AM
Seriously nice painting Remington. Well done. Great work  :-*
I do love Copplestone's BoB figures...
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update Maxim Team)
Post by: Remington on September 08, 2010, 12:45:45 PM
Thanks, you two. These guys will get bloody this Friday so no rest for the wicked. I don't have a full force yet, but I am allowed to field them alongside other Russian forces. :)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update Maxim Team)
Post by: Axebreaker on September 08, 2010, 10:02:20 PM
Seriously nice painting Remington. Well done. Great work  :-*
I do love Copplestone's BoB figures...

I'll second all that. :)

Christopher
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update Maxim Team)
Post by: Bako on September 10, 2010, 08:48:06 AM
It's not entirely relevant, but, oooooh! Those silfor (?) tufts are excellent. I need to hit up Antenociti's for some.

Swell job for a speed paint too.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update Maxim Team)
Post by: Remington on September 21, 2010, 07:03:07 PM
Just some more sailors and some little bits for the battleground. Last week I was very busy so I just kept myself busy with barrels (by Elladan) and wood piles (from Rustyrail) or wicker fences (Daemonscape). :) I've also added the ship's name to the caps as well... well, something along those lines. :)

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/ForTheMotherland3.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/ForTheMotherland2.jpg)

And a group shot

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/ForTheMotherland1.jpg)

PS: The shine on the blue is still there a bit, although No 35 Humbrol is giving better results as a base. The rest of the shine is unavoidable I think... especially with such dark colours.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Colonel Tubby on September 21, 2010, 07:36:17 PM
Lovely group shot there!  :-*
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: cuprum on September 22, 2010, 01:23:27 AM
Excellent work! For a change in colour these, enough dark, figures - it is possible to add some - red bows on a breast and "Guards" tapes (orange - black) on peak-caps.
(http://s006.radikal.ru/i214/1004/af/e2bd5eabaee0.jpg)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Ray Rivers on September 22, 2010, 01:36:57 AM
 :-*

Nice collection of sailors you got there!

And the terrain ain't bad either!   ;)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Remington on September 22, 2010, 06:01:42 AM
Thank you for your kind words, everyone. Cuprum, that is a great idea. I think the next ones will be guards. What does that bow look like? Is it like the bows for charities? Like this?

(http://www.sense2.com.au/images/catalog/thumbnails/5874-Bow-Charity-Pins.jpg)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: cuprum on September 22, 2010, 06:57:24 AM
Bows were used, basically, such type.
(http://www.modernlib.ru/books/deryabin_aleksandr/grazhdanskaya_voyna_v_rossii_19171922_krasnaya_armiya/any2fbimgloader24.jpeg)
By the way, often enough there was a mixture of a sea and infantry uniform. Figures where trousers are filled in boots or the soldier's blouse is not filled in trousers, it is possible to paint in colour khaki.
(http://www.modernlib.ru/books/deryabin_aleksandr/grazhdanskaya_voyna_v_rossii_19171922_krasnaya_armiya/any2fbimgloader16.jpeg)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Remington on September 23, 2010, 04:25:27 PM
I forgot to thank you, cuprum. My next sailors will be a bit more colourful with two or three guards. Thank you once more for the brilliant help!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: cuprum on September 24, 2010, 05:26:49 AM
Is always ready to help. There will be questions, address.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: abhorsen950 on September 25, 2010, 07:42:25 PM
Ohhh I like them alot, smashing work!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Remington on October 03, 2010, 11:38:00 AM
I managed to finish another three sailors for my (Bolshevik?) force. This time it's one of their commanders and two sailors painted up as Guards (thanks to the tips of Cuprum). These three should have been done on Monday last week but sadly a black Vallejo bottle exploded on them and myself when the nozzle got blocked and I pressed a bit too hard. Sadly the faces were already done at that point. Still, the new faces are just as good.

The guy in the stripped shirt was a pain to paint and looking at him now, I could have done this or the other a bit better, but I guess I am quite pleased with his shirt and him as he is.

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Charge4.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Charge3.jpg)

Now, I also would like to hear your opinion on something... Since I might be done with the sailors in a couple of weeks (all my mates are absolutely stunned by the speed *lol*) I wanted to start a second unit that would also be "speedpainted" in a similar way: The faces done in a good quality and the uniforms using mainly the washes. Now, I am swaying between the Copplestone partisans and some proper Bolsheviks.

-With the partisans I might be able to create a force that is flexible in it's interpretation. They could be Reds or Whites or even Anarchists. All I would need, would be enough standard bearers and maybe different commanders to create the needed impression.  An added bonus is the amount of beards in the partisans that would make the painting of a faces a lot easier. Yet, can the partisans be a force to be reckoned with?

-With the Bolshevik soldiers I would have a consistent uniformed type of troops that might paint a bit quicker... although I doubt that, especially if I keep the partisans in Browns, Blacks and Khakis. And I would be able to buy the Siberian Rifles which have the most shooting poses. Furthermore it would mean less fuss, since I would have one side to work for and that is it.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Calimero on October 03, 2010, 11:48:09 AM
Really nice work on these sailors.

Personally I would go with Reds (Bolsheviks) figures next has to build a "proper army". You can then add irregular units (partisan, anarchists, etc.) later on if you want to 8)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Westfalia Chris on October 03, 2010, 12:06:48 PM
Well, you don't see Partisans that often - most people go for the more "regular" Red Army figures (I know I did). I'd say that the reasons you listed are perfectly valid, and you could probably use them with the sailors as "counterrevolutionaries" if you do a "slightly modified" Kronstadt game sometime in the future.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Captain Blood on October 03, 2010, 12:21:26 PM
a black Vallejo bottle exploded on them and myself when the nozzle got blocked and I pressed a bit too hard.

The same thing has happened to me a couple of times  :(
Bastard blocked nipples!  >:(

That stripey shirt is blinking brilliant - what are you worrying about, man?!  ;)

Sounds like you'd really prefer to do some partizans next, so my advice is - do the partizans!  ;)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Plynkes on October 03, 2010, 12:32:25 PM
I painted one of those stripey sailor shirts recently (on a KuK U-Boat man), and I found the experience somewhat nightmarish, too. I think I'll stick to the Royal Navy and the Kaiserliche Marine in future.  :)


Fantastic work. Really stunning paint-jobs.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Remington on October 03, 2010, 12:37:11 PM
Captain Blood is reading me like an open book. :) I am very keen to paint them. And as Chris said, you don't see them that often. Sailors and partisans together could be quite a unique looking team. Besides, as far as I can tell, there were quite a few people who were dragged away from their fields and fought in whatever they had on, or am I mistaken? Plop a Commissar or/and a uniformed leader next to them and Bob's your uncle.

Not that worried, Captain... :) It's just that I've had this guy in front of me for quite some time and I can see every detail. I regretted writing that comment immediately after I set the guy down on the table and looked at him from above. :)

Plynkes... it's nice that someone feels my pain! :)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Svennn on October 03, 2010, 12:41:21 PM
Well I wish I could do the stripes that well. They are lovely, lovely indeed.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Calimero on October 03, 2010, 12:51:45 PM
Nobody’s listening to me anymore… :'(

lol whatever you choose to do I’m sure they will be great figures.

Not that worried, Captain... :) It's just that I've had this guy in front of me for quite some time and I can see every detail. I regretted writing that comment immediately after I set the guy down on the table and looked at him from above. :)

I find that a good way to avoid this feeling is to put the figures aside for some time and take a look at it later on. This way you won’t focus on all the small "mistake" it might have. An other option, is to hold the figures in front of the mirror and to look at the reflection rather than at the figure itself… sound crazy but it work ;)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Remington on October 03, 2010, 12:53:57 PM
 lol Calimero, of course I am listening... The dilemma is real. :) I guess it's a heart against mind decision. My heart's with the partisans.

Thanks Svennn! You just have to accept that it is a pain and try it till it works... And it is a full and proper pain!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (More Sailors!)
Post by: Turbo-Ben on October 03, 2010, 06:22:38 PM

They could be Reds or Whites or even Anarchists. All I would need, would be enough standard bearers and maybe different commanders to create the needed impression.

Remember you can get that extra set of sailor command from brigade I just bought.
It includes two standard bearers as well as two commanders.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Remington on October 03, 2010, 06:44:03 PM
Oh, I haven't forgotten and you should bring them next time we meet! :D
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: area23 on October 03, 2010, 09:00:39 PM
Very nice!

I'd go for partisans. You'll have an instant Kronstadt uprising force.

That's what I'm palnning anyway. I already have the partisans and seeing all the sailors on LAF lately got me convinced I need to get the sailors too. Either as a early revolution Kronstadt vainguard force or revolutionary rebels against bolshevik power.
I would add an armoured car too, and possibly some generic soldiers that could double as bolsheviks, deserters or rebels, depending on which point of history.

DEATH TO THE BOLSHEVIKS, LONG LIVE THE SOVIETS!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Poliorketes on October 03, 2010, 09:44:13 PM
Brilliant stripes
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Mark Plant on October 03, 2010, 10:22:42 PM
Sailors and partisans together could be quite a unique looking team. Besides, as far as I can tell, there were quite a few people who were dragged away from their fields and fought in whatever they had on, or am I mistaken? Plop a Commissar or/and a uniformed leader next to them and Bob's your uncle.

Historically the sailor/partisan combo is reflective of the early civil war. That's when units were cobbled together and just flung into the field. You can add in worker units (railroad men, miners) and urban Red Guard too, if you want. They can be anti-Bolshevik too (Grigoriev's revolt, for example).

The down side is that that Whites at the period were not the multi-coloured Kornilovs and flash cavalry that players tend to like. They were equally scruffy collections (Cossacks, officers and students mostly) slapped together.

The Reds also had close to no cavalry at this stage (what they did have tended to be "Internationals" like Hungarians and Germans or was utter dreck). Nor did they have much armour, aviation etc. Nor commissars (actually very little command structure at all).

Early war is a fun period, but the Reds are mostly rubbish quality infantry. If you want to actively avoid players always insisting on having all the toys (armoured cars, planes etc) then it has that going for it.

(This is the historical sequence. Your gaming event line may differ.)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: cuprum on October 04, 2010, 03:07:26 AM
Fine work!
There are some remarks. On a peak-cap of the commander it is necessary to make white lines, as on it a photo:
http://s004.radikal.ru/i206/1004/7f/364f8c3f1528.jpg
The figure will look more interesting.
Strips on a striped sea shirt can be made as follows:
Take any unnecessary you decal and cover with its dark blue paint. Then knife on thin strips on a metal ruler. A thickness of a strip - 1 mm. Then paint a shirt in white colour. Also glue dark blue strips as usual decal.
Here article about fights for Barnaul (a city where I live) between white, Czechs and Red guards in 1918. Article in Russian. Try to read, having taken advantage of the translator "Google". There are many real photos and uniform reconstruction.
http://zhurnal.lib.ru/w/wdowin_a_n/oteh.shtml
Use red ancient bronze guns of the period of Napoleonic wars is interesting!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: HerbyF on October 04, 2010, 04:51:05 AM
I have done a unit of Russian sailors for the Boxer rebellion. Mine are striped in red, only did about half in the stripes the rest in dark blue. Striping was a real pain.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Remington on October 04, 2010, 06:03:11 AM
Thank you for the info, Mark and Cuprum. Very interesting indeed. Well, I got till tomorrow to decide... then it's group ordering time! :) The armoured car will be a must, so I might go for the uniformed chaps first to be able to play the periods with all these toys. :D

Cuprum, thank you for pointing out the line of the cap. I'll paint it on tonight. Still unsure if I should paint the cockade for the commander.

Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: cuprum on October 04, 2010, 06:58:14 AM
The commander of red seamen on a peak-cap could carry a red star, as in this drawing.
(http://s44.radikal.ru/i104/1010/71/5a615addc396.jpg)
At white seamen imperial cockardes more often rushed.
Anarchists of a cockarde, most likely, had no.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Mark Plant on October 04, 2010, 09:03:00 AM
The armoured car will be a must,

It is reasonable to have an armoured car for the early period, if that is your only concern. Less so for planes. The trains were mostly like the one in that article Cuprum showed: improvised rather than armour plate.

That article is fascinating Cuprum, thanks. What a cool mix of Red Guard, Sailors, Hungarians and Partisan Cavalry (if I understand it correctly) fighting Czechs and Whites.

For me one of the fun bits about the early period is that you can literally field whole armies.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: cuprum on October 04, 2010, 09:32:42 AM
Greetings Mark!
You remember, you asked about anchors on peak-caps red sailors on available at you a photo? I have found on them the information. Such peak-caps with anchors have been given port military men of Red fleet in 1922.
(http://s52.radikal.ru/i137/1010/81/72fe734611e6x.jpg)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Mark Plant on October 04, 2010, 09:58:12 AM
Thanks Cuprum.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Johnno on October 08, 2010, 07:11:02 PM
The commander of red seamen on a peak-cap could carry a red star, as in this drawing.

At white seamen imperial cockardes more often rushed.
Anarchists of a cockarde, most likely, had no.

Ok, I understand the part about the red seamen. But what about the white seamen?  :D lol lol :D
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: cuprum on October 09, 2010, 05:46:17 AM
Look here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=5178.30
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Westfalia Chris on October 09, 2010, 08:06:35 AM
Ok, I understand the part about the red seamen. But what about the white seamen?  :D lol lol :D

That is no way to talk to someone who does not speak English well enough to get that puerile joke, young man! Wash out your mouth, this instant!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Update page 2!Commander and Guards)
Post by: Remington on October 17, 2010, 06:07:13 PM
Well, there we go. My goal achieved in about a month. I managed to paint 10 sailors and a 3 man Maxim team and I am really proud of these. Here are the latest additions: A flag bearer and riflemen.

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Forthehomeland1-1.jpg)

The flag is made out of some metal foil tomato purée tube. :) I received very valuable tips about how to build this from Plynkes and I'd like to thank him once more for the help.

Well, let's get a group shot together then, before I start trying out painting methods on my Bolshevik infantry. Speed is my goal again but I'm afraid I won't be able to use the washes. I still have some sailors left (1 commander, 3 riflemen and the Naval Command by Brigade games), but I need a bit of a change for a while. For our campaign we need command groups consisting out of 3 to 4 miniatures, so I might make my overall command group for my army a naval one. We'll see. Here are the riflemen:

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Forthehomeland3.jpg)
and here everyone together... Smile!

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/Forthehomeland2.jpg)

They were already tested on the battlefield last Friday suffering 5 loses but dishing out an impressive 18! Needless to say that the Bolsheviks won the fight that day.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Tsune on October 17, 2010, 06:16:29 PM
WOW!  :o :-* Great painting and a very nice unit you have there.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: area23 on October 17, 2010, 06:59:13 PM
Absolutely beautiful. Very, very inspiring.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Axebreaker on October 17, 2010, 09:05:34 PM
What they said!! :-* :-*

Christopher
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: cuprum on October 18, 2010, 01:25:58 AM
These are one of the best miniatures of seamen, that I could see! Remarkable, beautiful and historical work! You the present master, accept my congratulations!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Wirelizard on October 18, 2010, 01:27:07 AM
Very, very nice!

The flag looks especially good; I like how it's fastened to the pole - that looks especially cloth-like.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Remington on October 18, 2010, 06:53:17 AM
Thank you so much for all the kind comments! I am very glad you like them.

Cuprum, wow! Thank you so much for these compliments!! Without your help though the unit would have been less interesting and less accurate so it is you who's is the master of RCW! :)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: cuprum on October 18, 2010, 07:25:56 AM
Thanks for kind words in my address.
I will be always glad to help.   :)
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Plynkes on October 18, 2010, 03:11:48 PM
Fantastic, Dimitri. This is my favourite thread on the LAF at the moment. Glad I was able to be of help in a small way.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Remington on October 18, 2010, 08:19:59 PM
Thank you very much, Plynkes. As for the size of your help... there was a reason why I left the flag for last. :D I was terrified.

I am considering starting a new topic for the normal infantry, instead of continuing in this one. We'll see when I got one of them finished. I am still experimenting with speedy methods.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: sepoy1857 on October 19, 2010, 10:30:50 AM
Outstanding work on the Sailors!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Chairface on October 20, 2010, 03:53:17 AM
Your mastery of the 28mm face leaves me embarrased by my own poor offerings. The shading and detail is imaculate. Thank you for sharing.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Blackwolf on October 20, 2010, 05:46:49 AM
Not posting as much these days......have to post in regards to this.....bloody marvelous :D An inspiration (which is always good because I'll reach into the lead pile ;D).

  Just Lovely


  Guy
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Ignatieff on October 20, 2010, 07:40:45 PM
Superb. You should feel very proud. Well done! :-*
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Christian on October 27, 2010, 07:41:08 AM
They're gorgeous, really. An outstanding paint job, everything is just right.

A great example of why LAF is the best forum around: fabulous workmanship, with a really encouraging community spirit.
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Ray Rivers on October 27, 2010, 10:11:24 AM
 :-*

Love the unit.  Very, very nice!

The flag is magic!
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Rob_bresnen on October 27, 2010, 02:25:13 PM
some of the best painted minis I have seen on teh fortum for some time- thank you.  :o
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: gamer Mac on October 27, 2010, 04:59:07 PM
Lovely work :-* :-* :-*
The faces are outstanding
And you say this is a quick paint job,  :o :o :o
I think you fib lol
Title: Re: Copplestone Russian sailors... (Finished for now! Update page 4)
Post by: Remington on October 27, 2010, 08:37:47 PM
Wow, guys... Thank you very much! Such kind words.

@ gamer Mac

Oh, as George said: I cannot tell a lie!  :D No, producing 3 miniatures in one Sunday is lightning fast for me. The GW washes were the best thing that could have happened to these sailors. The faces were done with care on the other hand. It was a good compromise.