March on and god safe the king - Redcoats for Muskets and Tomahawks

[stonecold]

Hello all,

as the headline says, I'm building a british force for M&T.
The beginning was a warlord plastic box of the british infantry regiment for 10 Regulars and 10 Grenadiers.

The next step will be perrys Queens's Rangers for, of course, a unit of rangers. So far the planning.

Now the brave redcoats will need to get coloured. For that I wanted to ask you, what products of colours you use for your redcoats and what colours. I don't want to make it to difficult. My thougts are in the direction of using a base, then soft or strong tone from army painter, then the base again, lightening up the base and highlights.

So what colours do you use for coats, pants, metal, wooden parts (rifles) and leather and skin?

Maybe u have got some tipps for me?

[Codsticker]

My simple recipe for red is:
- undercoat Jokero orange
- red of whatever manufacturer you chose
- red tone wash
- highlight with original colour (optional)

Gives a nice natural, solid red.

[stonecold]

I red that officers had a brighter red than the regular solidiers.
Do you paint it as well?

[Sir_Theo]

When I wanted to paint some Napoleonic British quickly a little while ago I used the Red AP primer spray, before painting the various parts with Army painter flash, white for the crossbars and trousers etc, black for boots and shakes,  dark brown for the muskets with gun metal details, then the facing colour (blue in this case) etc. I used all Army Painter colours as I had them all to hand.  I used a Soft tone wash. Strong tone would also work but you might then want to go back over all the while bits to tone down the 'muddying ' effect of the wash, and in fact a general highlight touch up to all the other bits, wih the original colour. It's not going to win any prizes but it's an effective and quick way of painting.

I actually am.no sure whether starting with red is better than starting with white. I have he french to do next and I'm starting from White to see if that is better!

[stonecold]

So how do the others paint their Redcoats?

I found a nice Homepage of a living history group:
http://www.47thfoot.co.uk/

This colour ist very interesting. Has anybody a Clou how I can get this mixture?

Here you can see that the troups red was darker than the officers red (Picture in the 5th line):
http://www.47thfoot.co.uk/mainframe.html

So, how can I get that?

[Michi]

So what colours do you use for coats, pants, metal, wooden parts (rifles) and leather and skin?

I used Vallejo acrylics on mine (increasing amounts of the lighter colours for highlighting):
Black and red mix for coats,
beige and white mix for pants,
black and silver mix for metal,
black and white and beige and beasty brown mix for wood,
black and beasty brown mix for leather,
parasite brown and white mix for skin.

[stonecold]

Thank you, Michi.
This painting is awesome.  . Do you use kind of ink?

[Michi]

Do you use kind of ink?

Thank you, no - no washes, no inks, no filters at all. Just plain painting in layers.

[flags_of_war]

It is for Naps but it will still stand for AWI. Paint guide by Toby at Artmaster.

http://www.victrixlimited.com/blogs/articles/17372057-artmasters-connoiseur-painting-guide

[stonecold]

Thanks to flags_of_war as well. the used red isnīt my gusto, but for the other colours this guide ist very good.

[Aaron]

I like to start with a basecoat of burnt cadmium red, mid tone of with cavalry brown (actually a red-brown) and highlight liberally with flat red (all Vallejo Model Colours). For officers I add another highlight of either vermillion or scarlet.It results in a nice brick red.