Just to let you know that I've posted some pictures of my FPW French on the blog.
Have a look and let me know what you think.
Post is at:
http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/latest-daubings.html
Very nice; strong black lining really makes them stand out :-bd
Most impressive !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Love the look of those! Very impressed with the detail on the French Guard - individual lines of lace ! :o
Watch out for those pesky Prusskies, though, there are only a small number of regular battalions with those white crosses on their flags, and I think they are all fusiliers with black belts! The standard Prussian infantry flag has a black cross with white corners. OK, let the jokes commence.
Mollinary
Great work Sub, i'm a big fan of 6mm.
kev
Quote from: mollinary on 20 February 2015, 04:35:27 PM
Love the look of those! Very impressed with the detail on the French Guard - individual lines of lace ! :o
Watch out for those pesky Prusskies, though, there are only a small number of regular battalions with those white crosses on their flags, and I think they are all fusiliers with black belts! The standard Prussian infantry flag has a black cross with white corners. OK, let the jokes commence.
Mollinary
Damn! I must have posted the negative of that pic. ;)
Thanks for that, I've only painted the one battalion so it would be easy enough to change.
Actually, I can't really take that kind of credit for the lace on the guard. I just gently dry-brushed over the blue and it seems to have worked.
Very nice!
Lovely work!
Thanks all.
#getagrip. I use a black undercoat on all my 6mm, it makes them so much easier to paint. Lining would take forever and beyond.
#mollinary. I've been racking my brain trying to think why I did the Prussian flag the wrong way around and conluded that it's partially your fault. If I hadn't read your post on the Landwehr flags and if I hadn't looked at the site you recommended and got it completely wrong, I could have just copied Leman's picture of his Irregular 6mm Prussians and I would have been in the clear. So there you are. ;) :) :D
That explains it, I knew it would be my fault! :D
Mollinary
Great looking work!
Nice ;)
I must dig out my 6mm FPW again soon!
I finished them in 2010 http://nosherswargames.blogspot.co.uk/2010_07_01_archive.html
Looking very good indeed. I'm assuming you have based up for BP or something similar.
Thanks all for the kind words.
Quote from: Leman on 21 February 2015, 08:41:34 AM
Looking very good indeed. I'm assuming you have based up for BP or something similar.
No, I only have two sets -Bazaine and Les Gens Braves which I have had since I bought the figures, Bazaine recommends 30mm frontage for infantry so I went with that, it fits in with my plans anyway. Tomorrow I'm going to the Cavalier Show in Tonbridge so I'll have a mooch around there and see what I can find. At the moment Bazaine looks the more interesting of the two but I'm not sold on the idea of all these order chit thingyamy-whatsits behind units, I'm sure that bit can be simplified -especially in 6mm. If Bernie is there I'll have a word. The rest looks pretty playable though.
Quote from: Subedai on 20 February 2015, 06:33:57 PM
#getagrip. I use a black undercoat on all my 6mm, it makes them so much easier to paint. Lining would take forever and beyond.
Never painted 6mm but thinking about it, that would make perfect sense ;)
Painting 6mm is exactly the same as painting 10mm except you start 4mm lower down
Quote from: Fenton on 21 February 2015, 08:55:50 PM
Painting 6mm is exactly the same as painting 10mm except you start 4mm lower down
Thanks, couldn't I just raise my painting table 4mm?
Quote from: getagrip on 21 February 2015, 09:01:13 PM
Thanks, couldn't I just raise my painting table 4mm?
Only if you want to complicate matters
I do paint 6mm exactly like 10mm though same. They both come out fine
I find painting Irregular 6mm a lot easier than anything else especially as with the black undercoat most of the areas between the figures is either inaccessible with a brush for any colour so is counted as shaded. Most of the painting is just blobs of different sizes or thin lines in approximately the right place. The trick is to use brighter colours than you normally would so that the little chaps stand out. I remember that when I painted my ACW 6mm it was taking me 30 minutes per Confederate block but only 20 per Union. The French are about 30 minutes but the Prussians are taking a little longer because the standards -once I get it right- are more intricate than the tricoleur.
Even in 10mm I've found there is more definition on the figures so you have to be correspondingly more careful.
The LGB rules have the French elan concept which is an absolute hoot to play, especially when a bunch of Turcos take umbrage and go haring forward. I also found that giving the Prussians more bases in a unit worked just as well as having different size bases for French and Prussians. I used to play 4 French bases to 6 Prussian.
I forgot to say how great the paint jobs are :)