Chema1986 XVIIc.Gallery:04/03/2025 Spanish Tercio Franco Dutch War 1672

[DonFabrizio]

fabulous work on a very interesting period! keep up the good work:)

[Bloggard]

these are so good, with the lovely chiaroscuro effect that must come across so well even at tabletop distance, that it's making  me think I really should give black-undercoating another go, properly , finally.


Never understood it conceptually, and the difficulty of getting good coverage etc, but as most people use it these days, it must be 'me'.

but obviously some get better results with it than others as seen here!

[Paul Richardson]

Tremendous work.

[chema1986]

Many thanks guys!!

these are so good, with the lovely chiaroscuro effect that must come across so well even at tabletop distance, that it's making  me think I really should give black-undercoating another go, properly , finally.


Never understood it conceptually, and the difficulty of getting good coverage etc, but as most people use it these days, it must be 'me'.

but obviously some get better results with it than others as seen here!

thanks mate, although I don't use black undercoat nowadays, I use dark grey or dark brown undercoat because I have better coverage and the black outlining is done sometimes manually with thinned black paint or with a dark wash (Citadel).

[Bloggard]

ah, blimey, how interesting!

my one concerted attempt at 'dark' undercoating' was with a dark brown funnily enough. Still found getting coverage very difficult.

your approach achieves a great 'look' anyway.

thinking about going zenithal again - black undercoat - drybrushed white (can't get on with airbrushes).
didn't work when I tried it before, but that was with contrast paints, which didn't mask the grainy nature of the dry-brush well enough.

[chema1986]

 Hello mates,

I have just updated my blog with this thread:
https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2021/10/terrain-month-28mm-artillery-position.html?showComment=1635147495666#c5894652180376306918


I read on Twitter that October was indeed #Terraintober, a month in which a wargamer should paint a piece of scenery, so I thought about my half built earthworks that have been laying around for months and started working on that unfinished project (from a long list of unfinished projects!).

So here it is, I just have finished the artillery position from scratch, made of expanded polystyrene, beach sand, wooden stirring sticks /balsa wood and Renedra's plastic gabions. I added Warfare Miniatures  "Chevaux de Frisie" and also some bits from good old Warhammer 6th edition Empire cannon.

It has been a pretty easy project, with just some basic airbrush and drybrush paintjob.





I added also some static grass because the whole thing seemed a littled boring to me, just in earthy brown tones. Also the details here and there break the monotony.



the building was easy and fun, although not as quick as I initially thought, because of the 2 part plastic gabions. I built the artillery position before getting my 3d printed gabions... So next time I build earthworks, I will use my 3D printed gabions and my recently ordered Avanpost positions !



For the sand, I mixed PVA glue with beach sand from my area, and art store cheap brown paint and covered the whole thing (but the gabions and wood!) then just I airbrushed the main colours with Vallejo paints thinned with airbrush thinner (Ammo Mig) and It worked perfectly, the Vallejo Model Color range is fully "airbrushable" I recommend it for terrain and big things.



Here is the finish result with different miniatures just  to give an idea of the size









Cheers

[Digits]

That looks SUPERB!    Great terrain piece fella.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant piece of terrain.

[AdamPHayes]

Great job!

[Paul Richardson]

Excellent

[chema1986]

Many thanks guys! 

[Friends of General Haig]

Superb looking artillery position 👍

(Also a good reminder that I also have that Avanpost artillery position in the stash 🤔!)

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely 

[chema1986]

Superb looking artillery position 👍

(Also a good reminder that I also have that Avanpost artillery position in the stash 🤔!)

Thanks Sir! I hope to see yours here soon

Lovely 

Thanks TerrainMaster!

[bluewillow]

Fabulous terrain piece

Cheers
Matt