Author Topic: Somewhere in Manchuria, 1905 (Read 4512 times)

Lt. Hazel · « **on:** November 11, 2012, 01:04:59 PM »

Hi all!

After painting so much armour and colourfull clothing and shields my eyes needed a break. After Björn wrote some Russo-Japanese-War army lists for Triumph&Tragedy I decided to paint some khaki wearing Russians. For a link to the army list pdf have a look at the Tsuba Miniatures site http://tsuba-miniatures.blogspot.de/ . There you can buy this fantastic miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks, the Russians also can be used to represent the "colourfull" regiments of the South Russian Army during the Russian Civil War.

I experimented a bit with different khakis and washes on the shirts of the Russians. Their official summer dress where white shirts and white cloth cover for their heads. But they soon realised that the Japanese where good shooters and order was given to dye the white cloth or stop washing them. The dying was done by local chinese labourers and the result where a wide variety of khaki shades.

Enough said, I´m happy with how they turned out,

Cheers

Jan

Quote from: Remington on November 12, 2012, 01:31:58 PM

Great work, Jan! As we discussed over the phone... you know what to do!

Ok you asked for it and it might be of some interest for others. A list of colours/washes I´ve used.
I used (on the first pic from left to right) Vallejo Model Colour for the basecoat on the shirts:
Green Ochre 914 - Green Brown 879 - Desert Yellow 977 - Khaki 988.
I can´t rememeber it, but it´s possible that I mixed some khaki into the DY. For a wider variety of shades I´ll mix this colours with each other.
Then I applied several layers of Army Painter Soft Tone (Gryphone Sepia) and Strong Tone (Devlan Mud) thinned with water. I used the Dark Tone in the folds to create depths. After everything was dry I highlighted with the base colour plus some Pale Sand 837. For the case that the highlight turns out to bright I tone it down with base colour plus a lot of water. Hope that helps,
Jan

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #1 on:** November 11, 2012, 04:25:26 PM »

They look great

cheers

James

Marine0846 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2012, 04:29:10 PM »

Love them.
Really great figures,
fine painting.

Greystreak · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2012, 05:56:23 PM »

Your experimentation has been a complete success! Bravo!

Captain Blood · « **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2012, 06:21:28 PM »

Excellent Jan

Keith · « **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2012, 07:02:06 PM »

Brilliant! They look just right.

Ataman · « **Reply #6 on:** November 11, 2012, 07:54:03 PM »

Great looking figures! In my opinion, the RJW was the Golden Age of Russian uniforms, but unfortunately also the Dark Age of military incompetence.

Arthur · « **Reply #7 on:** November 11, 2012, 09:25:11 PM »

Excellent paint job on these, Jan

Lt. Hazel · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2012, 10:32:08 PM »

Thanks gents!

Quote from: Ataman on November 11, 2012, 07:54:03 PM

Great looking figures! In my opinion, the RJW was the Golden Age of Russian uniforms, but unfortunately also the Dark Age of military incompetence.
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I totally agree with you!

Hubbynz · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2012, 11:28:45 PM »

Awesome work.

Driscoles · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2012, 06:09:26 AM »

They are looking awesome.

commissarmoody · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2012, 07:23:58 AM »

They look great!

carlos marighela · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2012, 07:36:25 AM »

Superb, both figures and paintwork.

Bugsda · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2012, 01:09:34 PM »

They're excellent Lt, love the colours

Remington · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2012, 01:31:58 PM »

Great work, Jan! As we discussed over the phone... you know what to do!

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