...I think I've forgotten how to paint 28mm figures :-[
For a change [which, of course, is as good as a rest] I thought I'd paint some 28mm Perry plastic Nap French infantry [for skirmishing with, using Voltigeur rules; I did the Rifles & Spanish guerillas & clergy ages ago] today...
They'll be fine - but it did feel like I was just starting out painting again! And I've won comps with my 28s :d
Of course - it also got me thinking about how Napoleonic Peninsular skirmishing would be great in 10mm...hmm... ;D
He he I know that feeling. Some one has asked me to paint some 28s for him, I'm on the point of turning down a job because it has been so long I don't know were to start with them :-[
Yeah, it's the wide open spaces on the big figures - very unnerving. I even get some of the same thing going back to 15s :o
's OK - panic over: they're all painted now [there was only 28 of 'em] - once I got cracking it all came flooding back [haven't touched any 28s since about January-ish?] :)
Intersperse your 10s with some other scales from time to time and it keeps your hand in.
Quote from: nikharwood on 30 August 2011, 12:03:21 AM
[haven't touched any 28s since about January-ish?] :)
Haven't touched a 28 since they were 25s (about 1978). :D
I've just spray-varnished these & I'm quite pleased with them really - considering I did them as fast-paint [& not the obsessive-compulsive-eyeball-bleeding way that I used to paint 28s!]
It is nice to paint something different for a change, but I wouldn't want to go back to them as my predominant scale.
And I do keep coming back to the idea of doing this same thing [Napoleonic Sharpe-style skirmishing] in 10mm as well ;D
In case anyone wants to see the end-product: http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=19063
Quote from: nikharwood on 05 September 2011, 10:16:12 PM
In case anyone wants to see the end-product: http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=19063
Cool! About 2.8 times too big, but nice work all the same! :D 8)
Yep - bloody giants ;D
I need to get another camera though - I'm really struggling to get decent pics with this one at the moment now that summer's gone & any semblance of bright / natural light has been replaced with dull, grey, wetness :(