The British Empire!

[Dr. The Viking]

Lovely redcoats!

Keep this up and you'll wind up with a lovely little army.

[mattblackgod]

Nice paintjobs!

[Ray Rivers]

Cheers, all!

To be quite honest, they are not the easiest minis to paint. But they definitely have character.

Hopefully as I progress they will get a bit better.

Thanks again for the encouraging comments.

 

[gamer Mac]

Nice job Ray.
LPL is a great way to get a new army well on its way.

[tanktastic43]

Nice paint job.

Well done.

tt43.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking good Ray 

Another force to keep an eye on 

cheers

James

[Ray Rivers]

The British Empire receives heavy (7lb) artillery support... 



The top part is a bit dark and the close-ups a bit light. Boy do I hate cameras!

Super miniatures, though, which were really fun to paint. 

[Malamute]

Splendid stuff Ray. 

My favourite is the mounted officer.

[gatetraveller]

Beautiful work!

Could you tell us a bit about the paintjob on the artillery crews?

I really like the blues and how well they work together!

[aggro84]

Looking great Mr Rivers. 
Very bold crisp colors!
Lovely work.

[Ray Rivers]

Thanks, kidlings! 

For the artillery uniforms I used Foundry Deep Blue Shade (20A) as the base color, Black as the shade and Foundry Deep Blue (20B) as the highlight. The hardest bit actually was getting a nice yellow lace color. Over white I painted the lace using Foundry Yellow, but it looked very anemic. So I then when over it with the Light and it still didn't seem correct. In desperation, I then went over it again using the Yellow shade... and bing! I had the color I wanted.

I have no idea why the red on the crews look pinkish. Obviously a result of my incredibly poor lighting and photography.

The mounted officer is very cool, I like him a lot too!

My little army, it seems, keeps on growing... 

[Chairface]

Ray, they're gorgeous.  The blues just pop out!

[artshiraz]

Greetings

a great way to start a new way and improve on it. I like your Brits

.. In desperation, I then went over it again using the Yellow shade... and bing! I had the color I wanted.

Huh.. that is yellow shade ? 2A ? Amazing how it turns out on that background.

As to your red looking pink.. did you use Scarlet (38) as your red? I used it on my British Troops (Round six) as I don't have Foundry's Brick Red. The scarlet tone is a bit pinkish.

I look forward seeing your Venus expeditionary forces expand.
Thank you so much
Jo

[Ray Rivers]

Hi art!

Yep, that is Yellow Shade 2A. Like I say, first I went with the normal Yellow base, but the color was too weak. Then I used the shade on top of it and I guess the effect was to strength the color overall without actually taking on the Shade color, which is too orangy. In other words... I got lucky. 

As for the Red..  ... normally I will use GW Red or Foundry Bright Red, but I wanted to do up my Brits nicely and with a strong but not brilliant color, so I shelled out some bucks and bought the Andrea Red Paint Set. The Andrea reds give a nice deep color (though they are a bit difficult to get used to because they have some much damn pigment) but I think I just had too much light for the photo and it washed it out.

I also have a unit of Empress Lancers to do and want to have a unit of highlanders as well. So we'll see where this goes as I haven't really thought it out yet very well except for the basic units.

Thanks for your interest. 

[Captain Blood]

Great collection there Ray. Are you going to use them to fight Zulus, or only Martians?