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Author Topic: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW  (Read 7254 times)

Offline Galloping Major

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2009, 05:22:10 PM »
Ahhh, the joy of socks  ;)


Offline Krimson

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2009, 12:11:41 PM »
So how do you do Tartan and hose like that!!!??? I struggle to keep them lines straight and the gaps even

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2009, 02:48:27 PM »
If only I had actually got to play with them properly, instead of having the whole command wiped out by the second turn!

They looked attractive enough whilst I was scalping them...
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Offline Darkoath

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2009, 04:54:22 AM »
What's the world coming to, eh? Englishmen using the term French and Indian War now? I suppose it's only right as we have a MacDonalds and Starbucks in every town nowadays.  :)

Lovely job. Everybody always fixates on tartan, but it is the work on the hose that really catches my eye.

I have to agree... the hose is outstanding!  You will have to give us a nice tutorial on how you painted the hose!  I think that might be the best technique I have seen Captain! :-*
Again love how your colors just pop!  Your miniatures must really stand out on your tabletop!  What company makes these highland miniatures that you used?  Are they Redoubt?

Darkoath

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2010, 07:13:36 PM »
I have to agree... the hose is outstanding!  You will have to give us a nice tutorial on how you painted the hose!  I think that might be the best technique I have seen Captain! :-*
Again love how your colors just pop!  Your miniatures must really stand out on your tabletop!  What company makes these highland miniatures that you used?  Are they Redoubt?

Darkoath

Ah - thanks chaps.

The figures are Front Rank. I'd have gone for Redoubt, as their highlanders are not bad sculpts (less lumpy than their other F&IW regulars) - only for some reason they flatly refused to sell me a pack of mixed skirmishing poses. You have to buy 6 advancing, 6 firing, 6 charging, 6 standing etc etc. Terribly old fashioned - so screw them.

These Front Rank figures are quite nice, although the hands are a bit vestigal on most of them.

Galloping Major's will be infinitely superior, I'm certain, but alas, they're some way down the sculpting schedule by all accounts  ;)

The hose are actually pretty easy to paint, believe it or not.

The plaid is a right pain in the arse though. Took ages.
(Actually, it's a lot more detailed than you can see from the pictures... Maybe I'll do some ultra close-ups at some point  ;))

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2010, 08:47:06 AM »
Apologies for being late to the party.

Can I add my praise for such beautiful looking figures and I can honestly say they look even better in the flesh.

Sorry I had to scalp so many of them in that game, but I seem to remember they gave my Huron a bit of a kicking anyways.

Wonderful stuff.
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Offline Lowtardog

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2010, 10:54:57 AM »
These are cracking Cap`n, now Jacobite Rebellion that is something I would love to do one day, tried with Redoubt ECW Highlanders which are nice but a little limited in poses and too early. Again Mike Owen was going to do a range :-* which would have been superb

Offline Le matou rouge

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Re: 78th Foot, Fraser's Highlanders in the F&IW
« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2010, 06:20:14 PM »
Apologies for being late to the party.

So do I, but I can't pass on them : those are so beautiful  :-* I think it's probably your best brushwork - or at least, the one I like the much... But i'm little biaised on the era...  :) In a more objective way, I think you manage very succefully one of the most tough challenge for a painter : to match the 3 primary colors in a  coherent way, and dear, how they match  :o :-*

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