Kev's Awesome LoA!!!

[Techno]

Absolutely awful ! 
I hate you.
They really are gorgeous.

Cheers - Phil

[mollinary]

Kev,

That is a lovely regiment, nice basing, excellent attention to detail. Love the feathers on the edge of the officer's hat!  One extra thing you might like to consider, the colour of your pike staffs.   When I was doing my ECW figures I was very unhappy with the look that painting them dark brown gave, so considered the alternatives.  I saw some photos, of re-enactors I think, where the pikes were a much lighter, almost buff colour (think plank).  I tried this, and the results I found very pleasing.  I now have about 1500 of them, and a goodly number of 6mm ancients, and I wouldn't go for anything else.  Of course a lot of it is personal taste, but I think the lighter colour has a similar effect to that offered by the lighter basing - it lifts the overall effect.  Worth a try?


Mollinary

[Steve J]

Pikes and spears would have been made from ash, which is a very light coloured wood. I've painted my Dux Bellorum spears a light colour to reflect this but to also make them stand out a bit more for purely aesthetic reasons.

[kev1964]

Cheers for the comments chaps, Mollinary/Steve, a good point, just sent pics to the will be owner and he's very happy but as it's only 3 units i have painted so far out of 12 it may be worth a try with lighter, thanks for the info,


kev

[Hertsblue]

Really beautiful, Kev. As usual.

[mollinary]

Kev,

Just catching "Troy" on TV.  Not exactly a great authority for ancient and later pikes(!) but if you want to see what I mean about lighter pike shafts, it has them by the CGI thousand!


Mollinary

[nikharwood]

Like them? Bloody love 'em .

Wot Steve sed 

[kev1964]

Afternoon all, thanks for all your comments, managed to base up  Vaisseaux , hope you like them, next lot up will have slightly lighter pikes,

kev

[Techno]

Excellent...........AGAIN !!
Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

Once again lovely work .

[mollinary]

Running out of superlatives -AGAIN! 

Mollinary

[Hertsblue]

Gorgeous, Kev. Royal-Vaisseaux in fact, hence the royal-blue facings. Formed from the sailors of the fleet. Their flag had a big golden galleon in the centre. 

[nikharwood]

 

[Hecoma]

Wow ! Top painting ! You should make a painting tutorial to please everybody 

This french regiment still exists today. His name is "43ème Régiment d'Infanterie" and for the french speaking people interested, here is the official site :

http://www.le43lille.org/index_.htm

[kev1964]

Thanks chaps,

Managed to base Le Roi and  Garde Francaise ,  Hecoma i may get time towards the end of this lot if any ones interested, i need to invest in a new camera first as i keep coaxing the lens out on this one but it,s going to give up soon 









kev