My FPW project is coming along nicely now. I have about a division of infantry and cavalry for each side painted for To the Last Gaiter Button. I need to finish about 2 more divisions per side by November to complete phase 1 of the project and put on a game at MillenniumCon in Texas.
Here are just a few of my pictures:
(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q602/Grenadierbooks/IMAG0205.jpg)
Prussian Infantry
(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q602/Grenadierbooks/IMAG0201.jpg)
French Dragoons
(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q602/Grenadierbooks/IMAG0206.jpg)
Prussian Brigadier
You can find all at:
http://photobucket.com/FPW
exelent minis, i really like the detail on the picklehaubes.
Very nice work sir!
Looking Good there Shecky!! :D
Very nicely done Shecky 8)
Hi Tom
As I think I said on another forum - nicely painted and based!
Good luck with the Texas show
Bernie
Thanks.
I appreciate what you said about the bases but I'm indifferent to them. I've thought about using another flocking material besides the static grass but since I already have about 100 stands flocked the same way I'm loathe to try something different. I apply a layer of glue to the base and then apply the static grass. Before the glue dries I turn the base upside down and shake off the excess grass. No matter what I do there are always strands of grass which don't adhere to the base. When I spray on the matte finish it kicks up these stray pieces and they stick to the figures. I now have to go back with tweezers and pluck the stray strands.
I guess you can say I'm tired of plucking flock! :)
Tom
Very nice all round
Shecky - know what you mean. Took me ages to find a basing method I like. :-\
I tend to base on a mix of sand/pva, washed, highlighted, shaded lighter, then I go with patches of flock; the rest being churned up by previous units passing through is my justification. Something like this:
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/Villiers%20Division%20French%201870/094.jpg)
Thinking on basing, both Mars-La-Tours and Gravelotte-Saint Private were fought on pasture land, not crop cultivation as it is now, but the thing that really stood out when I was there was the ground there really is yellow ochre, which dries to a very very pale cream in the heat of the sun (the ground is full of tiny sandstone stones, full of fossils)! Bourney is river valley, so is darker loam, Saarbruken and Worth are darker soil in river valleys, whereas the hill tops (where not forested) are a lot lighter. As I remember 1870 was a long summer, with long spells of both dry and wet weather as I recall.
Mad Lemmey,
I like your basing. I've actually used something similar on my WWII figures. I fear I may be too far along in my FPW project to switch to that.
I know what you mean. I'm currently reactivating some old 15mm nam stuff and the basing is awful! part of me is saying rebase the lot, part of me is saying base to your old standards to blend in. I might rebase, but with a big project like yours it's a case of grin and bear it!
your basing will do, it looks good, but at least you know you can do more exciting stuff later!
Shecky,
You've got to be right on the rebasing front, keep with consistency. My10mm ECW are based to a very old fashioned standard, but I did over a thousand that way, and I wasn't going to change them all when I returned to the project last year!
Mollinary