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Author Topic: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)  (Read 18085 times)

Offline Jacksarge

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #45 on: August 26, 2020, 01:55:47 AM »
Great stuff Ray! Very impressed by your painting.
Wouldn't have thought you would have time to paint now that Civil War game is out on early access  ;)

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #46 on: August 26, 2020, 10:14:40 AM »
Wouldn't have thought you would have time to paint now that Civil War game is out on early access  ;)

Thanks, Jack!

I bought Grand Tactican the moment it was available, but at this time they have a lot of bugs to fix. I normally have more free time in the winter... so that is when I will probably do a "deep dive" of the game. At the moment, at least, this army has my full attention.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #47 on: August 26, 2020, 04:23:16 PM »
Little guides like that are most useful. Many thanks!
I am going to build a wargames army, a big beautiful wargames army, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

2019 Painting Challenge :
figures bought: 500+
figures painted: 57
9 vehicles painted
4 terrain pieces scratchbuilt

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #48 on: August 29, 2020, 11:00:07 AM »
At Last!

The command minis are finished!



Will base them today and then we will have our first unit actually finished!  :) o_o

Offline ChrisBBB

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #49 on: August 29, 2020, 12:26:36 PM »

Offline flatpack

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #50 on: August 30, 2020, 06:30:59 AM »
Great looking figures, full of colour and character. Brill.
Flatpack

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #51 on: August 30, 2020, 03:23:01 PM »
Thanks Chris and flatpack, really appreciate the comments.

So here is the (almost) finished hussars and Brigadier (as usual crappy photos):







At the present I don't have any scatter material for 10mm figures. My static grass and tufts are for 28mm figures, so until I get some more appropriate material, they will just have to go au naturale.

Back to the infantry...

Offline DintheDin

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #52 on: August 30, 2020, 04:43:01 PM »
You have achieved a very neat paintjob, very nice shading and you took advantage of all the little details of the sculpts!
Very natural horse colors as well! Congrats!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #53 on: August 30, 2020, 06:28:23 PM »
Thanks Din!

I'm not expecting an overwhelming response to my photos, especially due to their quality.

My main purpose at this moment is to paint minis... lots of minis. In this case, the next time I get something from Pendraken I will also order some 2mm flock and go back and finish my based miniatures.

I'm in no rush though...

Offline DintheDin

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #54 on: August 30, 2020, 06:29:42 PM »
You are on a good way though...  ;)
Keep it up!

Offline Roo

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #55 on: August 30, 2020, 07:16:45 PM »
Your ‘crappy’ photos are clearly designed to increase the enjoyment at discovering your wonderful paint jobs...those little fellas pop!

Top job!

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #56 on: August 30, 2020, 07:24:18 PM »
Thanks, Roo!  :)

You are on a good way though...  ;)
Keep it up!

I guess.  o_o

Having never done 10mm before I find my resources fairly scarce. As can be seen from the Hussars, I don't even have appropriate scatter material. The only terrain I have is some old rivers that can be repurposed... but nothing else, not even a single tree.

At my age I am loath to go on a buying spree only to have most of the stuff get packed away somewhere in a box.

So this is a big test into whether or not I really enjoy the period, the scale and am able to put in the time needed to get things down. I'm happy to be back working on the infantry and ATM I have 5 regiments in work. I am shooting for 18 men each for the time being but really want 30. Regimental packs from Pendraken have 30 men each.

When I finish this next lot of 12 infantry, I'll take a photo showing how they look like on the base (but obviously not finished).

Painted project minis: French - Inf: 63, Cav: 9, CMD: 2


Offline vodkafan

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #57 on: August 30, 2020, 08:56:58 PM »
They look fantastic very impressive. I quite like the bases as they are, quite good enough to game with.

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #58 on: August 30, 2020, 09:05:34 PM »
They look fantastic very impressive.

Cheers!

I quite like the bases as they are, quite good enough to game with.

That is always an option.  ;)

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken)
« Reply #59 on: August 31, 2020, 07:40:26 AM »
These look great. It’s not just the painting, which is just perfect on these little figures - the figures themselves are actually really good for such a tiny size. I have a bucketload of assorted 10mm Pendraken C17th/C18th types I was going to use for pirates. I even painted a few. But truthfully the sculpts are not that great. Whereas with these, you can really see what they are meant to be, and the period character comes through.

Hmmm... Maybe I’ll go back and have another dabble with a few of my 10mm figures buried in the lead mountain. I only bought a couple of dozen packs, but of course in this scale, that’s about 2,000 figures lol

 

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