So long as you use bright colours, you can be a little rough with the block colours. Use a good dark wash and then do a very quick highlight in the original bright colours. The wash hides all of the original roughness and the highlighting makes 'em pop!

Some more pics can be found here http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Hail%20Caesar%20%28in%206mm%29

  Ew that is a close up shot of my Iranian archers........

Very nice work!

Wow! Nice pike and shot, Subedai!  In Dutch formation, no less?
Those are superb Egyptians, Fenton!  Are they really 6mm?
Very nice ancients, Irregularwars!

Super stuff!

Rob

Yeah they are 6mm I will get them finished at some point

I wish I could get to grips with the Irregular 6mm as I really want to like it but seem to have  mental block about painting it

You've set a very high standard with these photos! Excellent stuff! Thank you for sharing them.

Quote from: Fenton on 04 May 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Yeah they are 6mm I will get them finished at some point

I wish I could get to grips with the Irregular 6mm as I really want to like it but seem to have  mental block about painting it

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.

I think maybe its because what little irregular I do have was bought in Australia from Eureka who have their own moulds. I think those moulds are quite old now and so quite a bit of the detail has been lost...I will maybe order some more from Irregular themselves to see if there any different

Look damn fine to me !
Cheers - Phil

I've a bunch of Irregular blocks that I've never quite gotten on with either. Tried white undercoat > bright colours > wash down but they look "washed out" like I got the contrast out of whack on the TV.

Might clean them off and go black > bright block colours, or try grey > black wash > not quite so bright colours. Hmmm. The piccies and suggestions have me pondering when I should be working

Quote from: Subedai on 04 May 2014, 05:43:34 PM
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

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.

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.

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

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

The pictures arent showing up

They are for me, lovely stuff!

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

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).

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