Artizan 2nd afghan war British.

[Ray Earle]

First one. Mainly a colour test, just to make sure I'm happy with the selections. Painted as the 17th Leicestershire regiment.



I've gone with the historically questionable helmet flash because, well, I like it. It adds a bit of colour too. 



Apologies for the poor photography (done on the phone  ).

Just need to base it now, oh, and paint some more...

[Jeff965]

Wow Ray that's a lovely paint job

[Keith]

That's great!

[Phil Robinson]

Superb paint job, and the helmet flash is just dandy, historically accurate or not.

[wulfgar22]

Superb!

[RJ]

Very nice job.

Good to see a painted example as well, even more tempted by them now...

[Malamute]

Lovely Ray, he's superb.

[Romark]

Excellent,helmet flash looks good too.

[Arthur]

A very clean and crisp paint job, Ray 

Is it indiscreet to ask which paints/triads you used for the khaki ? It looks spot on to me.

[guitarheroandy]

Great job!! 

I have a unit of those who keep looking at me from the painting table...

[folnjir]

Just need to base it now, oh, and paint some more...

Yes, yes you do. Lovely work, looking forward to seeing them at you do.

[Mad Guru]

Wow, beautiful job overall, and the Martini-Henry looks fantastic!

[marianas_gamer]

Very nice
LB

[Atheling]

That's a bit tasty Mr Earle!! 

Lovely smooth layering and nice and crisp too!

Darrell.

[Ray Earle]

Thank you for the comments gents. Much appreciated. 

Is it indiscreet to ask which paints/triads you used for the khaki ? It looks spot on to me.

Not at all. It's all vallejo paints and I've included the paint codes as I can never remember if they are 'model' or 'game' colour paints. Based on a black undercoat;

Base colour of US field drab (70.873) followed by a mid tone of, surprise, surprise, Khaki (70.988), both of these are straight from the bottle. The highlight is made by mixing the Khaki mid-tone with Dark sand (70.847) in about a 4-1 ratio. Be fairly stingy with the dark sand as it has a tendency to lighten the khaki quite a bit.

I usually do a final edge highlight by mixing a little more dark sand in with the highlight colour. Just to accentuate the edge of the jacket, cuffs and elbows/knees.

I hope that's of some help.  Feel free to ask any other questions if the explanation isn't clear enough.