This is the fourth painting Guide supporting the 6mm Charity project that has now started (you can read more about it in a previous blog here). There will be a total of 4 painting guides, covering Horse, Dragoons, Foot and Artillery of the Baccus Wars of the Sun King Range. Here some links to the other ones.
We will start this one at Step 5 – which is the painting stages (I highly recommend that you read Step 1 to 4 in the First painting guide as it covers some things that are important in preparing the miniatures and yourself for the challenge, a link is provided here).
It is fairly straightforward and it is my favourite type of unit.
Step 5 – the Painting (depending on how you access this you may just see one picture, but it is a slideshow with the steps)
First start painting the coat, in this case a Denswe unit, with its blue base coat. You may want to go with a different colour for the drummer (perhaps are reverse cuff colour/coat colour), or the officer having a different coat colour.
Do not overfill the model with colour – gently and enjoy yourself!
Next the skin – again gently,
Next the Cuff colours
That left had cuff can be a little bit tricky, try to hit it.
I then used some additional cuff colour to add some further detail on the coat (you may not want to do this).
It adds a nice touch though…
I decided to for white socks
Pikes, rifle butts and the belt in light brown
Flag pole…
Adding some gold to the top of the flag poles, the officers hat brim. and the cuff colour for the drummer hat brim.
White for the soldiers hat brims and the top of the belt and some detail for a scarf, but the two last details being optional. After all hats are done freshen up the colour of the hats, you can go black or grey (most common) or whatever you like.
Same to pike, belt detail, scarf and hat brim.
Done with a Nutbrown ink wash
Done with a Nutbrown Ink Wash
Small note, I did paint the hair as some point – use a few different browns.
Based, this is a step to far at this stage.
Nice unit, I will show how to put the flag on in a later blog post…..
/ Hope that was of some help, moving on updates on the project will focus on units as they get completed. In writing this I know that two painters have already completed their miniatures.
This is the third painting Guide supporting the 6mm Charity project that has now started (you can read more about it in a previous blog here). There will be a total of 4 painting guides, covering Horse, Dragoons, Foot and Artillery of the Baccus Wars of the Sun King Range. Here some links to the other ones.
We will start this one at Step 5 – which is the painting stages (I highly recommend that you read Step 1 to 4 in the First painting guide as it covers some things that are important in preparing the miniatures and yourself for the challenge, a link is provided here).
Starting with the Dragoons that is very similar to the Horse in Guide 1 (the main difference being a drummer instead on the trumpeter and the troopers are holding their muskets not the swords).
Step 5 – the Painting (depending on how you access this you may just see one picture, but it is a slideshow with the steps)
As before the grey with the inkwash gives a nice balance for your shading and depth.
Paint the coats in the base colour, this being a Denswe unit with blue coats.
I also did the Pistol holsters and the drum blue
Next the Cuff colour (yellow), I thought the standard (flag) would be nice in yellow too. Some units have some hat lace (this one has yellow for the Troopers, I brass (or gold) for the officers and a blue and yellow braid for the Trumpeter (he also go a a few dots of yellow to represent a more elaborate coat.
The saddle blanket also got some yellow
View from my helicopter
Some metal on the officer sword and the drum
Skin colour
Brown for standard and muskets
A little bit of red for added to the standard, some on the officer cutt and the saddle blanket border for teh troopers.
Paint the rhythm stick
And teh drum skin
Some white for horse socks and face.
Metal for the muskets
and sword details,
added some white to the blanket roll
The final wash bringing it all together..
Done…
/ Hope that was of some interest, oh and by the way, here they are on their base.
This is the second painting Guide supporting the 6mm Charity project that has now started (you can read more about it in a previous blog here). There will be a total of 4 painting guides, covering Horse, Dragoons, Foot and Artillery of the Baccus Wars of the Sun King Range.
We will start this one at Step 5 – which is the painting stages (I highly recommend that you read Step 1 to 4 in the First painting guide as it covers some things that are important in preparing the miniatures and yourself for the challenge, a link is provided here).
Step 5 – the Painting (depending on how you access this you may just see one picture, but it is a slideshow with the steps)
Grey primer and black ink wash (diluted).
This is the Siarus Artillery that has Straw uniforms.
Paint facings red, socks and the officers hat (or silver). Also the wood on the artillery piece will be red (note this is the big Siege Gun and the painters in the charity project will be given smaller Field Guns).
Skin colour, not too thick…
Paint wood in light brown and some different browns for hari. Also some white to symbolise smoke.
Belts in Buff colour
Base in chocolate brown
Gold on metal for the cannon or yellow (but gold looks excellent!)
Add some Silver on top of the Cannon Ball.
Wash the models
Let dry… Basing (which will not be done by the participants of the Charity Projects) is shown in Part 1.
The finished article (basic paint job, will look brilliant on the table)
This is the first painting Guide supporting the 6mm Charity project that has now started (you can read more about it in a previous blog here). This is the first of 4 painting guides, covering Horse, Dragoons, Foot and Artillery of the Baccus Wars of the Sun King Range.
I was invited to Sean of the God’s Own Scale Podcast to talk about this project, you can listen to the podcast here. I am really happy to have Sean back on air and his back catalogue has some really inspiring stuff not just from a 6mm perspective. It was also great to listen to Peter Berry about Baccus dealing with the current situation and about things to come.
GENERAL NOTE: There are many ways to paint 6mm miniatures, I believe this approach is a realistic level for painting large batches at a table top standard that when they are presented on your wargames table en masse will look great. I very rarely do any more elaborate work on any of my miniatures and you may be able to get away with less and there are people whose painting is far exceeding this level. It is matter of pitching yourself at a level where you can achieve your projects in realistic timescales.
The painters of each set of horse will be given a coat colour and a cuff colour (in this example the coat will be red and the cuff blue).
This is the picture from the Baccus catalogue (link here).
Step 1 – mount the miniatures on a Lollipop stick or similar – I use blue tac but some pva glue works as well. The blue tac allows me to jump to Step 1 without waiting.
Step 2 – prime with a grey spray paint or paint the miniatures grey (you could use white or black too, but this example uses grey) – let dry.
Step 3 – use a light wash with diluted ink, I use pledge floor polish with some black ink added. But you could use any black wash, you want the black to be in the recesses and add some shadow. As you will see this approach lets us get away with not painting a few elements that can be tricky (as we just leave then black), it also creates a nice shaded effect if we do not overload the model with paint.
Step 4 – Start painting, but lets us talk about a few things I have found useful for painting (6mm):
– Brush, make sure you have a good point on your brush. I used a size 1 brush for all element of this project. You can use smaller brushes but I find then are not able to carry much paint and wear out quickly when you paint in batches (that is normally the case for 6mm).
– Paint – shake your paint well. I tend to use the paint directly from the pot. I clean the brush often in the paint cup then drag it carefully over some tissue paper (check the point) so I pick up new paint with a moist not soaking wet brush – I want to paint sharp colours once not having the paint flowing all over the miniature. Forget the milky consistency approach, paint sharp and once.
– Light – make sure you have good light. You will be able to see clearly and your eyes do not get tired. I used to use all kind of magnifiers and googles to paint in the past – it may help you but what I really needed was enough light.
– Gentle – paint as carefully as you can, but you can always repair any too obvious issues with some black.
– Mood – be in the right spirit of mind when you attempt painting these – especially if you have not painted in the scale before. Listen to a podcast and close the door – try to get into the Joy of Six!
Step 5 – Painting Steps
First paint the coat (in this case Red), I also painted the pistol holsters red.
The troopers has a belt over their shoulder leave it unpainted..
Next the cuff colour, in this case blue, I also went with a blue standard, saddle blanket/cloak and detail on the pistol holster. I then added some red to the fringe of the saddle blanket.
Horses next…
I try to avoid painting the horse harness and leave it black.
If you are careful you do not need to paint that harness detail at all…
Flesh colour…. Be easy on the hand. I paint bare hands not gloves – this may not be correct but then it allows the full visibility of the cuffs.
Upfront it looks sloppy but from a distance the black unpainted part will trick your eye better than a solid blob of paint.
I use a light brown for standard pole (this colour may vary, use what you fancy)
Musket … wood details same brown
I use the same light brown for the saddle blanket leather strips
I add some white to the Officers Cuffs…. and some white on the grey horses.
Optional horse facings and socks
Silver on Trumpeter hat lace and top of standards.
Silver on musket and sword.
Silver on Scabbard top and bottom.
Gold hat lace on ensign and commander, fringees of the standard and the trumpet.
Tidy up the hats with some black (you may want to add hat lace to the troopers, but I did not).
…and almost done, add some buff to the belt (I used bone white).
Some detail to the standard…..
Apply a wash, I use Winsor and Newton Nut Brown Ink straight from the bottle (you could use agrax earthshade or AP Soft Tone or not wash at all).
It will look less dramatic when it dries but this is a nice reward for a very straightforward paint job.
Step 6 – Basing (this will not be done by the painters in the charity project, but I show it here for completeness).
Glue the miniatures to the base
Apply sand (I used coloured sand, because I am lazy)
Paint the sand, or in my case the edges (also any metal that may be seen from your bases)
First drybrush
Second drybrush some terracota
Third drybrush some yellow
Add static grass, I do about 20% dark and 80% light green.
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