Captain Blood's Full English - 36 ECW battle pics

[Captaingeneral]

 
I've said it before and I'll say it again, these pics are probably the most inspiring I have ever seen!
(Royalist Cuirassiers and all!  )
To my mind, It's very evocative of the kind of smaller actions that took place all over the country at that time, when pikemen would have been of limited use.


Thanks for pointing out the thread on that 'other forum' haven't had such a laugh in a long time!


Keep up the sublime work!
CG

[Smokeyrone]

Wow!   

[Argonor]

  OK, I'll just settle for watching football for the rest of this month... 

[nickthegreek]

Damn you Captain Blood,

You have diverted my energy in completing my WWI project, an inspired me to pick up the brush and revisit my languishing Royalist army.

Fortunately the reinforcements I need from Renegade are a lot more affordable than when I bought their ECW range when they first came out.

My question to you sir, is which colours/brand did you use to achieve the purple/crimson, blue, and yellow buff for the Royalist horse? also any recommendations on the yellow required to do Talbot's foot? I was thinking of trying the Foundry paint system for the first, instead of my usual Coat D'Arms or Reaper pallets?

Many thanks for any assistance,

Nick

[Captain Blood]

nickthegreek - thanks 

Honestly, I'm not sure of the colours I used on any particular figures now, as some of these were painted 1 - 2 years ago. But I only use Vallejo and occasionally GW paints, and the 'craft acrylic' which goes various names of Inscribe / Prism / Palmier.

I personally like my buff coats to be quite yellow - rather than buff. I also try to get slight tonal variations from figure to figure, some more brown, some more yellow. I can tell you that I always start from either GW 'snakebite leather' or Inscribe / Palmier 'caramel', with various amounts of Inscribe / Palmier black and white added for deeper tones or highlights, and added yellowness by mixing in a bit of Vallejo 'deep yellow'. It's a strong pigment, so you don't need much.

Think the purple / crimson is actually just a bright red with a bit of black mixed in, then gradually lightened with white to make a dusky pink. Similarly with the blue. Pretty simple really. I work from a few basic colours and use black, white and yellow to create more interesting hues. Can't be doing with all those squillions of colours available in the various systems.

[Mad Gadgeteer]

WOW - WOW

    

[Colonel Tubby]

Breathtaking - great figures and terrain! 

In fact I'm really jealous! 

[doobry]

Can you still get inscribe paints,they seem to have disappeareed?

iain

[Captain Blood]

Can you still get inscribe paints,they seem to have disappeareed?

iain

Yes, you can, but Daler-Rowney stopped doing them under the Inscribe brand name - which (as far as I can tell) was just a relabelling of an imported craft acrylic called Prism made by Palmer in the States - exactly the same packaging, same colour names, even the same product codes - just a slightly different label.
But it's exactly the same stuff.
I now buy mine online from Fred Aldous in the UK. Which interestingly, they are still selling as Inscribe - even though they're sending out bottles of Prism 

Here you are: http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/shop-online/inscribe-59ml-acrylic-paint.htm

Don't make the mistake of buying Decoart or Anita's craft acrylic instead. They look like similar ranges, but both are horrible, viscous, semi-translucent sh*t. The Anita's being the worst of all.
Unlike the gorgeously smooth, opaque, matt (and ludicrously cheap!) Inscribe / Prism product. Best paint I use. Far superior to all the stupidly priced 'hobby' paint 'systems'. 

[Barry S]

Here you are: http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/shop-online/inscribe-59ml-acrylic-paint.htm

Thanks for the link Captain. One of our $2.00 shops here in Australia used to sell the range many years ago when I managed to stock pile a few bottles. They’re slowly running out so your link will come in handy... if they post to Australia.
 

[Alfrik]

Looking over the layout, there is only one small contribution needed to fully enjoy and appreciate it;

A full weekend free, friends to play the game out with, drinks and munchies, BBQ saturday evening, short nap time and finish the game up on sunday!!

[Argonor]

Don't make the mistake of buying Decoart or Anita's craft acrylic instead. They look like similar ranges, but both are horrible, viscous, semi-translucent sh*t.

Sounds almost like some of my GW paints   

Seriously, hearing that you have to buy your CRAFT acrylics online, makes me feel much better about the hardship I sometimes endure to get the hobby stuff I want....