6 mm armies, painting thereof

[burnaby64]

I find them the easiest of all the 6mm types to paint, probably because most of the colours are hinted at with lines or dots rather than blocks of colour. Also, an added advantage for CO troops is that you only have to paint the front and back, the sides cannot be seen apart from the end figures.The black undercoat makes all this possible and you can certainly knock 'em out once you get a head of steam up. When I painted my ACW Union army I did 60 blocks in an hour -they were already undercoated I hasten to add.

That's very encouraging, Subedai, as my 6 mms are from Irregular

[Subedai]

You say that some of your chaps are Ottomans; here are mine all done with a black undercoat.



Ignore the base colours, at the time they were ok but now are too dark. I have changed them from the green to the earth colour of my boards.

Before


After


Hope this helps.

More of my 6mm armies can be seen on the blog;

http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/some-more-of-collection.html
http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/more-armies.html
and
http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/old-figures-new-pictures.html

Hope this helps.

[Leman]

Currently knocking out some Baccus ACW for Altar of Freedom. have gone for white undercoat, blocks and lines of paint then an overall coat of GW Agrax earthshade. Works a treat and is very quick.

[burnaby64]

Many thanks for that impressive Ottoman display, Subedai, and for the suggestion about base colour, too. Lots of great ideas here.

[Leman]

Here are a couple of shots of the latest 6mm ACW for altar of Freedom painted as per my previous post.

[Fenton]

The pictures arent showing up

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

They are for me, lovely stuff!

[toxicpixie]

Not showing for me either - user has removed content message from photobucket.

[Leman]

That's odd because I can see them. Wondering if I can do a conversion of Altar of Freedom to cover Europe 1859-71. Would then use my old 6mm for that and my newer 10mm for battalion based games (eg Black Powder).

[Fenton]

I cant see them even if I copy the link and go straight to your photobucket page

[Leman]

Really have no idea what has happened. I've been back to my Photobucket page and they are there in the album Altar of freedom. I can still see them on the forum page. I loaded them onto the page in the same way I have always done, so no idea what is going on.

[toxicpixie]

Security settings on Photobucket maybe? If you're logged in and others are logged in who can see them, whilst I'm not...

[Leman]

Will try to  post again

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yup, that worked!
Very nice indeed.

[Techno]

 
Cheers - Phil.