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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Jeff965 on July 12, 2017, 09:34:21 PM
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So this is the first two figures of an 8 figure unit for Sharp Practice, they are actually infantry volunteers mounted on horses and equipped from disbanded Indian units. Lovely figures to paint and very dynamic casts in my opinion.
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Swish :D
cheers
James
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Very nice looking!
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Very nice, It's an impressive collection, hope we get to see them at BLAM ;) :)
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Nice work on those minis Jeff :)
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Fantastic job! The horses are superb sculpts and overall you have brought the best out of those with your painting.
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Love them.
Excellent painting.
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Inspiring stuff! Thank you!
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Neat, like them a lot.
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Beautiful figures and outstanding brushwork!
One of these days I'm going to start tickling mine with a brush :)
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They look great!
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Thanks for commenting chaps it's very much appreciated :)
Very nice, It's an impressive collection, hope we get to see them at BLAM ;) :)
No chance this year I'm afraid :( I'm hoping to have finished the last of the commissions by next month and the rest of the year will be taking up with building my new terrain boards, which will be used for a game at BLAM 18, if I'm allowed by the committee of course :)
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Couple more done, half way to the full unit. The next four will be Officers from units that had mutinied.
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Wonderful painting Jeff. They really capture the period.
Have to say, I find those horse sculpts a bit strange looking though... Not to my taste at any rate :?
The paintwork though... :-*
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Wonderful painting Jeff. They really capture the period.
Have to say, I find those horse sculpts a bit strange looking though... Not to my taste at any rate :?
The paintwork though... :-*
Aww I really liked them Richard, they were a dream to paint at any rate. Nice large areas, I think they are Ebor miniature horses though I could be wrong on that.
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Lovely set of figures :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Aww I really liked them Richard, they were a dream to paint at any rate. Nice large areas, I think they are Ebor miniature horses though I could be wrong on that.
Ah well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that... the horsey anatomy looks decidedly wrong to me... overlong necks, over narrow hindquarters, bent heads - all a bit odd.
But I like the riders a LOT.
Not that it really matters what I like. They're your toys :)
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Lovely stuff Jeff, they look just the ticket ;D
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Like those Jeff,little beauties,can't wait to see what you come up with for the other four :)
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Thanks chaps, I'll post the other four figures in due course :)
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Two more done and two left to do to complete the unit. Nice irregular feel coming to the unit now I think.
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:-* nice work on those Jeff,what colour did you use for the horse flesh ?
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:-* nice work on those Jeff,what colour did you use for the horse flesh ?
Thanks mate, it's GW XV88 then add some white and some more white and some...........you get the idea lol
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They ARE lush, mate.
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Thanks mate, it's GW XV88 then add some white and some more white and some...........you get the idea lol
Thanks mate,not that I'll be using that recipe any time soon mind lol
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Splendid figures Jeff. Love the bloke with the pugaree around his helmet... 8)
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Very nice!!!
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Gorgeous!
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Lively poses and a neat, high-quality paintjob! You also managed the face expressions! Congrats!
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Lovely looking unit :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Splendid figures Jeff. Love the bloke with the pugaree around his helmet... 8)
Yep, he's my favourite as well. ;D
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It seems that there were quite a few impromptu units of horse, made up of officers from mutinous regiments etc. They called themselves "Moss Troopers", and were quite ferocious in their desire for revenge. Especially as many of them had seen wives, children, friends and comrades murdered by the mutineers during the various outbreaks.
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It seems that there were quite a few impromptu units of horse, made up of officers from mutinous regiments etc. They called themselves "Moss Troopers", and were quite ferocious in their desire for revenge. Especially as many of them had seen wives, children, friends and comrades murdered by the mutineers during the various outbreaks.
They also had infantrymen mounted on horses and armed from Indian Cavalry units that had mutinied mixed in, when the blood was up i wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of this lot.
Thank you all for taking the time to comment, its appreciated. I'll paint the next two and put a photo up of the finished unit then :)
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Lovely work Jeff on the cav. I like the irregular look to the unit you are building. The colonel would be well pleased with this unit.
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Lovely work Jeff on the cav. I like the irregular look to the unit you are building. The colonel would be well pleased with this unit.
Thanks Helen, the Colonel produces a nice figure ;)
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Gorgeous work on all, Jeff. :)
I don't know a lot about the Indian Mutiny, but I'm becoming interested in because of the quality of the Iron Duke miniatures and my respect for Colonel Snook. I have 2 of his books about the Sudan, both superb.
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Ok that's the last two figures done and the unit is now complete :) I've tried to exaggerate the irregular look of the unit with all the different horse colours.
This unit will see service in India (obvs) using either Sharpe Practice or TMWWBK. Lovely figures, I enjoyed painting them :)
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They are rather lovely :-*
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Great work. And a special charm, in the absence of a uniform form!
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There's a certain something about your painting that really appeals, but I'm struggling to put into words quite what it is. Not sure if it's the colours or the overall clean, crispness of it all or what.
But whatever it is, it is impressive.
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Those are nicely done! :-*
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A very fine unit you have there.
Just the men to teach the bad guys "what for."
Love them.
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Superb!!!
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More nice work on those minis Jeff :)
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Thank you all for the nice comments, they motivate me to paint something each week even if it's only one or two figures :)
There's a certain something about your painting that really appeals, but I'm struggling to put into words quite what it is. Not sure if it's the colours or the overall clean, crispness of it all or what.
But whatever it is, it is impressive.
Thank you Plynkes, my painting has got better over the last couple of years (even if I say so myself) having been inspired to improve by looking at other peoples figures on here.
I like the clean crisp look (though I do understand it's not to everyone's taste)
and I've settled on certain paints for certain colours which is the sort of thing you can only do by doing a lot of painting lol.
It's nice to know other people like what I do but it's an ongoing process I think, I'm already looking at my horse colours having read a recent thread which included comments from Captain Blood on how he paints his horses and I'm starting to dabble with washes (especially over metallics) so there's still lots to learn out there :)
I only wish you put more posts up of your collection as they are always a treat.
Cheers, Jeff
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It's a great unit Jeff :-*
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Very nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
When are we getting some pictures of them in action?
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It's a great unit Jeff :-*
It really is, mate.
Cracking!
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I cant believe that you wrote 'obvs', though....
lol lol
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Beautiful stuff, Jeff! By the way, how did you paint your bases? I like a lot the color you have used for the terrain and how it contrasts with the miniatures.
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Thanks very much chaps :)
Very nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
When are we getting some pictures of them in action?
Cheers Colin, I'll get some photos done next time we play, but at the moment WW2 is the "in" period for us.
It really is, mate.
Cracking!
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I cant believe that you wrote 'obvs', though....
lol lol
Street speak init brav :)
Beautiful stuff, Jeff! By the way, how did you paint your bases? I like a lot the color you have used for the terrain and how it contrasts with the miniatures.
Thanks Antonio, paints used for the bases were, firstly paint the base Coat de Armes horse tone roan, then drybrush with horse tone dun then dry brush again with a 50/50 mix of horse tone dun and white and finally a very light drybrush of white, hope that helps :)
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Thanks Antonio, paints used for the bases were, firstly paint the base Coat de Armes horse tone roan, then drybrush with horse tone dun then dry brush again with a 50/50 mix of horse tone dun and white and finally a very light drybrush of white, hope that helps :)
Helps a lot, Jeff! Thanks!