Fred's 2016 Painting Diary

[petercooman]

 

[fred.]

Thanks Peter 

[d_Guy]

Really good looking units Fred.

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

Belting stuff, Forbes ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Looking very good there.

[Steve J]

Excellent work once again

[fred.]

Thanks everyone  -  as I've said before these are great figures, and really reward a bit of effort in painting them.

I've put off painting them for ages, and now am really getting through some units.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool Forbes

[fred.]

Next!

Marquis de Boiseleau's Regiment, Jacobite



This was an Irish regiment from the Cork area, commanded by a French officer (you might have spotted this from the name!)

Cheated a bit with grey undercoat on these - as they have grey coats. Even though they have had a dry brush of light grey, I think I will lighten them further. They will get red cuffs.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Forbes

[fred.]

Ta.

Although looking at that photo, I don't seem to have done much!

[Techno]

I dunno....They look rather zippy to me. 

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Would you really carry a pike like that? It looks like a broken collar-bone waiting to happen from accumulative bouncing! I mean to say, ouch!

[fred.]

Drawings from the time very much show that pose.

[FierceKitty]

They also show rhinos wearing leather pajamas, however!

[toxicpixie]

If a rhino wants to wear leather pajamas, I'm not going to argue with him!

[Ithoriel]

They also show rhinos wearing leather pajamas, however!

Contemporary artists are likely to have seen considerably more pikemen than rhinos - infinitely more in most cases.

Also - "pyjamas" unless you've taken to using US English? How are the mighty fallen!

[FierceKitty]

I've never joined in this forum's prevailing "We loathe the US because they've got too much money" drive. Not least, in this instance, because it's an Indian word and they spell it that way.

[toxicpixie]

Hell, all languages (esp. English) are fully mutable and usage and spelling and punctuation merely guidelines.

None of them really matter, so long as the meaning is understood

Now... pajama, pajam's, pajamas' or pyjama, pyjama's or pyjamas' or just p"$whatever"mas?!