Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!

[Paul Richardson]

With lettering, I wonder whether the transfers used by railway modellers might help on occasion. They seem to come in various colours and sizes.

[Anderson Collection]

Another great unit interesting to see both artists work blended in the same unit works seamlessly.

[Hu Rhu]

Stunning as always. 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks all for the comments

Smashing! 
Your school motto is interesting it’s missing et, though perhaps the meaning is more succinct as it is; faith,country,as opposed to faith and country. My Latin is poor in idipsum

Yes, you're quite right, Guy. It was actually 'Fas et patria' which I think literally translates from Latin as 'Faith and fatherland', but a looser translation of the intent behind the motto was probably something like 'God and country'

[OSHIROmodels]

Wicked cool 

[Atheling]

Excellent work Richard 

[custosarmorum]

Stunning work and I would never have guessed that two different painters were involved!  An amazing feat!

[THE CID]

A unit anybody would be proud to field, beautiful. You've just made me order more figures, you swine. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Gibby]

Some fabulous painting, Captain. You certainly bring the best out of these sculpts!

[Captain Blood]

Thanks David, and all 

[Mindenbrush]

An inspiring thread, luckily I have way too many projects on the go to get involved with a new one but it is very tempting.

[Bugsda]

Excellent Richard, you're really knocking them out. Careful though, them amphetamines are addictive 

[syrinx0]

Magnificent indeed.  How do you get such a perfect white background in you photos?   The painting is of course perfect.  Amazing how well you matched the earlier work.












 

[Captain Blood]

Magnificent indeed.  How do you get such a perfect white background in you photos?   The painting is of course perfect.  Amazing how well you matched the earlier work.

Thanks.
As far as the white background goes, I shoot against a sheet of white paper under a bright daylight fluorescent light. I also generally over-expose the photo slightly. Any shadows in the corners, or bits of dust, flock etc, I just airbrush out of the image.

A unit anybody would be proud to field, beautiful. You've just made me order more figures, you swine. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Excellent

[Captain Blood]

The latest additions...
This is another of the (seldom seen) Bicorne 'musketeers at rest' packs. This time, the helmeted pack.

These have been painted for me by my good friend, Baner.
To repeat: NOT PAINTED BY ME
I have merely based them and done a little touching up here and there (like turning the pipe smoker's pipe into a clay pipe rather than a rosewood churchwarden )

People have asked me why I sometimes pay other people to do painting for me, when I can clearly paint myself.
In this case, it's because a large proportion of my existing ECW foot were painted for me by Baner around 10 years ago. He has a very distinctive painting technique, and I find it difficult to mimic it.
Since these additional figures will be intermixed into existing units previously painted by Baner, I prefer to keep the same style (I can live with slight stylistic differences between units, but not within the same units - yes, I'm anal like that )

More generally - and the reason why I contracted Baner to paint 100+ ECW foot for me in the first place all that time ago, is because I paint best when dealing with a few figures at a time, usually 4 - 6, (absolute max 10). The prospect of painting 20 or 30 figures in one lift, never mind 100+, is horrific to me. My painting is too slow; my attention span too short.

The other reason TBH, is that I just get bored of painting a particular period, genre or collection when reaching the end of a slog through them. So if I still have figures for it that need finishing off, I'd prefer to sub them out and pay someone to get that army finished, rather than having 20 or 30 leftover figures sitting in the lead mountain.

Anyway, enough waffle and self-justification 
Here they are...








And here they are with some of the earlier figures that Baner painted for me.

This now gives me 2 x 12 man New Model Army shot units in helmets for The Pikeman's Lament. (I also have 2 x 12 NMA shot in soft hats)



I've got some more of Baner's painted figures to finish basing, and they too will supplement existing units in the same way, to bring them up to strength for TPL...
Photos to follow once done