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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Jeff965 on November 26, 2015, 11:52:05 AM
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Painted these for my mate Dr De'ath and once he's based them up he says he's going to post some photos of the completed figures ( He's much better at that sort of thing than me). Lovely figures to paint I really enjoyed painting them. If your thinking of getting some militia then I cannot recommend these highly enough, full of character.
I've painted them in subdued tones and there's three in uniform coats to suggest a sprinkling of ex regulars within the unit. Hope you like them.
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Some close ups front and rear.
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Lovely figures with a great paint job. ;D
Looking forward to seeing my Huron lift their scalpts lol
PS Why are the two in the last photo holding hands ;) lol
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They look great,love the colour scheme you used,I think it works very well,not a range of minis I had considered before but the work you've done on them has certainly showcased them, for me anyway,well done. :)
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Lovely clean painting style , one of my Favorite periods, I,d love to see more of these if you have them.
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PS Why are the two in the last photo holding hands ;) lol
they're not one of them is pointing in the wrong direction and the other is trying to correct him. ;)
I love these figures, great sculpts, wonderful to paint.
I'm using mine for AWI also
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Beautiful work. Richard
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WOW!! Great work....would you like to be my mate/friend and paint up a bunch of my FIW Galloping Major figures? :D
Thanks for sharing...
Regards,
Hitman
8)
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Superbly done, love the painting style and colour choices 8) :D
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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Lovely jubley, very nice paint job.
Must finish my FIW figures, trouble is I'm too easily distracted by other periods every time I see some nice figures
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GREAT minis and SUPERB painting, CONGRATULATIONS! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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These are awesome! Great job on them...
Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
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Great stuff, excellent colour combinations.
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Lovely crisp paintwork, Jeff.
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Nicely done Jeff! 8)
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Very nice!
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Just saw them on FB stunning work and pics saved for when I finally paint mine
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Excellent painting. I really love your clean, crisp style. The subdued palette works really well.
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Jeff, I Love your painting Style. Well Done, sir.
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Thank you all for the very supportive comments, hopefully more photos to follow when their based up and completed.
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And I can confirm they are even better in real life! - I'll post some more pics when I get them based
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And I can confirm they are even better in real life! - I'll post some more pics when I get them based
Haven't you done them yet? Slacker. :D
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Stunning paintwork indeed!!!
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Those are wonderful. So vibrant. What paints did you use?
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Very nice colour schemes, I love it!
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Nice job on the painting. The colors tie the figures together nicely.
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Those are wonderful. So vibrant. What paints did you use?
Sorry it's taken so long to answer but real life got in the way, anyway here goes.
Brown - there are four types of brown used one of which uses a base coat of Coat de Armes horse tone brown 235 a mid coat of Vallejo flat brown and a highlight of flat brown and white. This is used mostly on clothing and hats.
Another brown used was GW XV88 and then highlighted with the same colour mixed with white. This was used on small clothes and the odd hat but its main use was for the wooden parts of the musket, the lighter colour used to paint the wood grain.
Another brown colour used again for hats and shoes was a base coat of CDA horse tone brown, mid tone of GW Mournfang brown then Mournfang brown mixed with orange and a touch of white.
The very light colour beige/sand is CDA horse tone dun and then the same couloir gradually lightened with white.
All four of the colours above were also used to paint hair.
Grey and Black areas - anything black was painted errr...black and highlighted with Vallejo black grey 862.
Black grey 862 was used as a main colour for coats hats and small clothes as well and was mixed with white to gradually highlight these items.
Green - is the Foundry British bottle green 41 AB and C.
Blue - is the Foundry Union blue 111 AB and C
Red - is GW Khorne red then mix in yellow as a mid colour and then a dash of white in the same colour as a final highlight.
White - first paint with CDA horse tone light grey 211 highlighted with straight white.
Flesh - base coat is Mournfang brown, then paint in flesh areas with GW Bestigor flesh and a final highlight of Bestigor flesh and white.
Silver - I used bolt gun metal from GW which is no longer available but any dark silver will do after it drys give it a wash with Quickshade strong tone.
Gold - Vallejo Old gold 578 washed with brown ink.
The figures were given two coats of Windsor and Newton professional spray Matt varnish, which is bloody marvellous stuff that really knits all the colours together and I think makes them pop.
And that's it, I hope you find this helpful.
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Eventually got round to taking a picture of the painted figures with finished bases
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bQVeyRBjDLQ/VoO3ldIyVKI/AAAAAAAADuU/XJWHbfQdwYI/w1586-h667-no/FIW%2BAAR%2Bcornfield%2Bfarm-6.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0kcJLzDCoHw/VoO3ie1Qg7I/AAAAAAAADuU/aebJ4_T7ApQ/w1586-h901-no/FIW%2BAAR%2Bcornfield%2Bfarm-5.jpg)
I can report that in their first action they performed very respectably, killing a careless French officer in a cornfield, defending a log cabin until it was torched by unruly French militia and Huron, then dying to a man by valiantly taking on a company of French regulars in hand-to-hand;
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OyYyCm1esYw/VoO2t9w6ehI/AAAAAAAADuU/hlTk54SCbwM/w1586-h1060-no/FIW%2BAAR%2Bcornfield%2Bfarm-15.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ip03DcZLVfs/VoO3hleM_7I/AAAAAAAADuU/7FDJJ-bX1xc/w1519-h1153-no/FIW%2BAAR%2Bcornfield%2Bfarm-46.jpg)
For a full AAR see http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85778.msg (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85778.msg)
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Wow! :o :o :o
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Love the shading on the figs -- very smooth and natural looking! Terrain is awesome, as well...
Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
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You certainly did Jeff's brushwork justice with the basing.
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Nicely done mate! 8)
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Great to see them so nicely finished off, cheers Mark :)
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Fantastic paint jobs.
I love Galloping Majors FIW models, I find them such a pleasure to paint and you've done them brilliantly.
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Thanks Sir Theo :)
Lance
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com