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Author Topic: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed  (Read 1365 times)

Offline Rick F

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Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« on: February 25, 2022, 08:04:49 AM »
Just finished the free French infantry sprue that was in the latest Wargames Illustrated. Did this with Contrast paints, so it didn't take long. I quite like them and I'm going to get some more, I've heard a few Napoleonic fans complaining about their accuracy, don't care lol

Offline has.been

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2022, 09:14:35 AM »
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don't care lol

In that scale I certainly agree with you.  :)

Offline LazyStudent

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2022, 12:43:40 PM »
Very nice brush control! I find it is tough with contrast paints on such small areas.
But they are certainly perfectly suited to 15mm, and massed ranks of minis!
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Offline fred

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2022, 07:05:34 PM »
They’ve come out great.

I quite like contrast paints for 10mm figures - which are a little smaller than these - at least in height.

These figures do look good as a unit, but I suppose we are too used other frontage of wargames units, as these look far too long. Even though the length is a fraction of what it would have been.

Offline Rick F

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2022, 09:31:17 PM »
Thanks for the kind comments. I like the way contrast paints work at this scale, I couldn't get on with them for anything other than ancients at larger scales. I know what you mean about the size of units, it's going to take a big table to do it justice.

Offline Kelly_

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2022, 11:33:50 PM »
Nice job on these!  How did you find their bases to work out, were they easy to affix?
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Offline Norm

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2022, 05:42:04 AM »
Nicely done, the contrast paint is working well. Thre is a lot of detail on these figures, so it seems important to find a way to cut through that and paint by the unit, rather than the figure. For my table, I am planning to use just two bases when a unit is in line and three when in column.

Offline Rick F

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2022, 07:40:04 AM »
Nice job on these!  How did you find their bases to work out, were they easy to affix?
Cheers, they didn't come with bases so I just made my own, 60 x 20mm plasticard. I have seen the proper ones and they look good.

Offline Rick F

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Re: Epic Battles Waterloo free sprue completed
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2022, 07:44:30 AM »
Nicely done, the contrast paint is working well. Thre is a lot of detail on these figures, so it seems important to find a way to cut through that and paint by the unit, rather than the figure. For my table, I am planning to use just two bases when a unit is in line and three when in column.
Thanks. I think I might do something similar in my shed with it's normal size table, but one of our group has a garage that can do 18' x 6' that will look epic! lol

 

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