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)
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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. -
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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… -
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I decided to for white socks -
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Pikes, rifle butts and the belt in light brown -
Flag pole… -
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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. -
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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.
Impressive! 🙂 I’ve enjoyed this series of posts! I have honestly never seen better 6mm figures than yours!
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Thanks John!
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Hi Per
Most enjoyable.
Regards
Peter
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Per, great blog explaining the painting for the infantry but is it possible for the text in stage 5 to be separate from the photos, so I can copy it to word and print it off as a reference for when I am doing the Blakinov unit?
Thanks.
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