Ruratanian Hussars

[redzed]

Das Weib Engel Hussars.
Minden figs painted as a Ruratanian Frei Korp.






and some more HUGE pics HERE

[Captain Blood]

Cor! Those are great, Shaun.
Straight off the chocolate box 
Wildly impractical (think how dirty they'd get) but supremely dashing. Love 'em.

[commissarmoody]

Wildly impractical (think how dirty they'd get) but supremely dashing. Love 'em.

 think Napoleon made a remark to that affect when his army was thinking of switching back to the Bourbon white. But if I remiber correctly he was refuring to how much blood was on the uniforms after the battle.

Aside from that grim thought, the mins look great. 

[former user]

Ruritanian Hussars!
excellent!

we are talking and You just do it! 

which period?
come on, give us a unit history please

[Centaur_Seducer]

Awesome colours
Who did you do the gold? It looks rwöeally great

[redzed]

(think how dirty they'd get)

it's a little know fact that there's no mud or dirt in Ruratania
The lower orders all get up at 5am to sweep it up.

Who did you do the gold? It looks rwöeally great

over a black undercoat- VMC135, -VMC126, -VMC014,  -White.
for a duller gold use VMC148 as a base then as above.
The trick to getting it to look more like braid is to use less of the lighter colours, I used the lighter colours more heavily as the uniform was white and it just looked better.

[Silent Invader]

Wow.  Stunning.   

[Centaur_Seducer]

Thank's Zed
I also added your blog to my bookmarks, interested with the experiment of Griffin Alkyd. The photo didn't say that much.

[redzed]

well I used to be an oil painter years and years ago, but switched to acrylics.
I saw the advert for Griffin and have been experimenting. Yes they do dry in 24 hours, thin them with white spirit and they dry satin/matt rather than gloss, I'll be using them a lot for horses and for figures where there's a big area of colour available.