French Marines 1871 28mm

[nevermore]

Just opened up regiment paintings on the website if anybody is interested

[Chairface]

These are quite nice! Interesting sculpts and a fine paint job.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Yes very good! Sadly I can't afford painted figures, but I'm sure there are plenty who can.

Nice figures - I hadn't seen them before. They'd also make very good VSF minions for the likes of Capt Nemo or the usual bunch of mad scientists etc.

[Plynkes]

Nice figures - I hadn't seen them before.

Renegade Miniatures Great War-era Fusiliers Marins, if I'm not mistaken. I've got some somewhere. Unpainted, of course. 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Renegade Miniatures Great War-era Fusiliers Marins, if I'm not mistaken. I've got some somewhere. Unpainted, of course. 

Thanks! I'll look them up.

[nevermore]

http://renegademiniatures.com/index.html

Always impressed with Renegade miniatures,i think his price range £13 a regiment of 24 figs is spot on,plus buy 4 regiments get a 5th free helps build up a army fast,his naps range looks really good and his new W.O.R. even better.

[Gluteus Maximus]

http://renegademiniatures.com/index.html

Always impressed with Renegade miniatures,i think his price range £13 a regiment of 24 figs is spot on,plus buy 4 regiments get a 5th free helps build up a army fast,his naps range looks really good and his new W.O.R. even better.

That's good value. Definitely a URL to bookmark. Thanks!

[nevermore]

You might find this hard to take in but i painted all my stuff with a sewing needle,got so fed up buying brushes i just picked up a sewing needle and felt ok with it,i use it for shades buttons and strapes ect...block painting first with a brush...am trying like the Japanese to get a picture on a grain of rice but not at that stage as yet....

[Plynkes]

My friend paints that way. I always thought him somewhat, er... eccentric for doing so; but now there are two of you it is obviously a cult. Get a few more recruits and it will be a movement! 

[nevermore]

Thank god for that !!! i thought i was a nutter or sumthin..

[Gluteus Maximus]

Thank god for that !!! i thought i was a nutter or sumthin..

No no, I'm sure you're not - honest! 

 

That's fascinating and something I've never heard of in the context of wargames miniatures painting. Is it any quicker/easier, or just cheaper? It's certainly something to think about for fine details - I aleways struggle with buttons, thin straps, musket detail etc. Bloody brushes always seem to spring a loose hair just when I'm trying to do the fine work on a character figure 

 

[nevermore]

same problem i had,but i prefere a needle backed up with a V5 hi-tecpoint for fine dark shades,that with proberly help you tons