Round 3 - Pest Control vs. Rorke's Drift

[joroas]

You can only see it on the Blu-Ray version.............

[Thantsants]

Wow - amazingly vivid colours Captain! 

Certainly don't mind being pasted by some of my favourite film characters sporting such excellent paint jobs!

[Captain Blood]

Yeah, wow are they that bright on the flesh or is it part flash based?

I paint pretty bright, but taking the photos under a mega bright daylight bulb certainly helps boost the colour. No flash. Levels auto-balanced in MS Digital Image afterwards. That's it.

Richard... I would love to hear your red recipe... As well as how you do
Stuble. 

It's GW blood red, cut with Vallejo deep yellow and a touch of white in the highlight layers... The five o clock shadow is a thin wash of grey-blue mixed from black, white and blue. Then with a bit of flesh tone mixed in for the highlight... 

In real life officers' tunics would be scarlet and the O/Rs' a conspicuously duller red and sergeant's sashes were red, officers had crimson, as, of course, they still do in the British army. 

 

Ah well... These figures are avowedly non-historical, based on the movie version, not the real people 

Nice work on your team Thantsants 

[joroas]

Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.
Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.

 

[thebinmann]

I paint pretty bright, but taking the photos under a mega bright daylight bulb certainly helps boost the colour. No flash. Levels auto-balanced in MS Digital Image afterwards. That's it.

Thanks, perhaps I might be lucky enough to see them up close on day..

[Keith]

In real life officers' tunics would be scarlet and the O/Rs' a conspicuously duller red ...

I thought that was earlier in the century? Certainly Napoleonic and up to the Sikh Wars etc. but by '79 weren't they pretty much the same?

[joroas]

Officers uniforms are made privately, as they still are, so they would not have worn the government issue, which, then as now, was probably made by the guy with the lowest tender!   

[Keith]

Indeed - along with the punishments of campaigning in Africa (which the 24th were well used to).

I was just under the impression that the (in)famous 'brick red' OR jacket was a thing of the past by this point as dyes etc. had improved markedly.

[Parriah]

Fantastic take on the 24th foot there !

AND, I love the way they look so much like the movie characters, especially the Hook one. I see why he's in the center. But He was my fav character, along with the Color Sgt., in the movie.

[Galland]

These colonials are fantastic. I love your bright colours, its hard to paint like that and get a good result, but as we have seen in the past you master the style.

[Laughing Ferret]

This was pretty close for me.  Well done to both of you!