FPW French Artillery

[archiduque]

Hi all!! I’ve painted the new French Artillery range from the Franco-Prussian War for Perry Miniatures  . Painted with AK Interactive 3rd Generation paints . Tufts from Tajima1. . I hope you like them !!! 









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Saludos
Rafa

[Volleyfire!]

Really lovely work.    The only thing I find slightly awkward with the figures though are the size and shape of the blanket rolls unfortunately, they rather remind me of inflated inner tubes every time I look at them. I think I'd be filing them down a wee bit if I could. I do think the Foundry figures blankets look better IMO. Wouldn't gunners have removed awkward things like blanket rolls when they were in action anyway, surely they'd hamper your movements especially if you were bending up and down?

[pacofeanor]

They are so beautifully painted !! i can't wait to paint them too!

Councerning the "blankets", 1870 french soldiers never used this type of dressing their blankets around the shoulder .

In fact, It is their  coats, or "capote",  that they dressed like that. So they should be dark blue instead of "grey" (french blankets color is a kind of brownish grey)

best regards
Paco

[archiduque]

Thanks Volleyfire and Paco!!

Thanks Paco for the info, but I have used a picture of a painting as a reference and come the blankets rolled  the shoulder in gray   


Saludos
Rafa

[Ray Rivers]

[duc de limbourg]

Great painting of great figures

[archiduque]

Thanks !!



Saludos
Rafa

[John Boadle]

Very handsome figures, and your painting does justice to the guns too, for which I had the pleasure of sculpting the master models for Michael Perry a few months back. (A mitrailleuse and a Prussian 4-pounder are also with Michael and he's sculpting crews for imminent release.)

The rolled greatcoats were actually the same colour as those of the French infantry. ie a dark blue-grey. Officially this colour was described as "blue-ish iron grey", and it was woven from 90% indigo blue threads and 10% in the beige of undyed wool. The result appeared somewhat more blue than grey, but still distinct from the dark blue of other uniform items.

The wood of the guns was no longer painted in the yellowish olive colour we all know from the First Empire. By this time it was what I'd call bronze green, ie a dark green with a touch of olive. The way you've done them looks close. The same paint was used for the wooden parts of gun tools such as the ramrod and trail-spike, strictly speaking.

But never mind any nit-picking comments, you've done a lovely job on these, Rafa!



 

[Norm]

beautiful, the vibrancy of the red is  impressive as I am guessing it was laid onto a darker colour.

[bluewillow]

Fantastic brush work.

I am really looking forward to the Perry releases,  as soon as I complete my Napoleonic Austrians, FPW will be my new period. We have two battlefields within a hour of us and a large number of skirmishes, so they will be added to our “Walk the battlefield in the morning Wargame in the afternoon” tours and Wargame.

Cheers
Matt

[archiduque]

Very handsome figures, and your painting does justice to the guns too, for which I had the pleasure of sculpting the master models for Michael Perry a few months back. (A mitrailleuse and a Prussian 4-pounder are also with Michael and he's sculpting crews for imminent release.)

The rolled greatcoats were actually the same colour as those of the French infantry. ie a dark blue-grey. Officially this colour was described as "blue-ish iron grey", and it was woven from 90% indigo blue threads and 10% in the beige of undyed wool. The result appeared somewhat more blue than grey, but still distinct from the dark blue of other uniform items.

The wood of the guns was no longer painted in the yellowish olive colour we all know from the First Empire. By this time it was what I'd call bronze green, ie a dark green with a touch of olive. The way you've done them looks close. The same paint was used for the wooden parts of gun tools such as the ramrod and trail-spike, strictly speaking.

But never mind any nit-picking comments, you've done a lovely job on these, Rafa!

Many thanks for the info John!
I have used the information from a plate that Michael gave me.

Saludos
Rafa

[archiduque]

[Donkeymilkman]

What size bases did you use please?

[Melnibonean]

Wow. They're very nicly done.