Quote from: Subedai on 03 May 2014, 07:26:58 PM
Zippee,
   Just had a quick butchers at your ECW Parliamentarians. The painting is brill on both the chaps and the bases.

That's very kind, thanks

You've performed miracles on those Irregular blocks - I tried them years ago with Macedonians and Napoleonics, ended up binning the lot. I just couldn't get into the casting or "see" the figure.

Nice examples gents!

When 6mm was my chief love, I undercoated in white, not black; brighter final result. I'm not sure if this is useful counsel.

Thanks,everyone, especially for the photos. FK, I will be using white as undercoat and then brighter shades of colour. I'll post results as soon as enough are painted. Thank you all once more.

@ Fenton. Thanks.

@Zippee. Thanks to you as well. With the Irregular blocks it depends entirely on the range, some are much better than others. Having easily distinguishable items ie pikes and muskets makes the rest of the colours fall into place. I think some of them may have been redone because I don't remember the little officers stand when I got the first lot (back in the late '80's, early '90's).

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