Quote from: Fenton on 04 January 2011, 11:29:09 AM
Good stuff Dazza love the paint jobs...are they just a single colour over balck or are they highlighted as well?...Sorry to ask hard to see cos of the photo and my crappy monitor

highlighted slightly

Cheers

PLease can I be a moderator so I can block THIS STUPID HEADGEAR THREAD.

IanS

we already know how to stop it though.......

New additions to my ever growing AWI collection, one day they will all make it onto a gaming board.

8th Massachusetts


42nd Foot


Von Linsing Grenadiers


Von Bose - with pyjama trousers  


masterpieces painted by Andy Mac

Von Bose up close and personal

You painted partizane and flag staves black.    Most people make it simply brown, which is wrong.
BTW what did you find about the staves color ?
Generally, AFAIK in musketeer regiments they should be black, an in fuzileers - white.

@ Maciek

Information : Here


Colours : To the present day, a definitive reconstruction of the Hesse-Cassel colours during the Seven Years' War is non-existent. All existing publications are mostly speculative. The Leib (colonel) colour was probably white and the regimental colour assumed dark blue. Here follows a tentative reconstruction of these flags used till 1767. The flag poles were black.

Officers : Officers wore a white stock and, as a sign of their commissioned rank, a gorget, in button colour, and sash. The sash was of silver silk shot with red flecks.
NCO's carried the Prussian style partizan. The standard staff was black.

And if you want paint like that, it's here : http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FileBin/AndyMacPaintingGuide.pdf

Quote from: Nicofig on 30 January 2011, 08:04:18 PM
And if you want paint like that, it's here : http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FileBin/AndyMacPaintingGuide.pdf

And if you need paints to paint like that, they can be found here:  http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Vallejo-Paints-c27/   

@ Dazza
Thanks, I also use the data from kronoskaf site to determine uniforms of my Hessians.
When talking about colours, I'm afraid, that according to this:
http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/revues_npi/9_1999/npi0999/9_hessk_drap1.htm
and this:
http://www.dupagemilitaryflag.com/files/33395736.pdf
your flags are wrong.
As sources give contradictory data about color of field and corners, the existing evidence shows that the Hessian lion, while marching toward the staff, should always look backward.

@Nicofig
I'm studying Andy Mac painting guide, and maybe, some day I'll be able to paint like him.

@Leon
I'm sorry, but I can find better priced Vallejo paints here, in Poland 

MacieK -i also used the dupage.com resource - it looks very well researched.

I'm not sure i managed anything more than an impressionistic rendering of the lion though when i painted it!

Wow ! You painted it !
I would never dare to paint 10mm flags.

New Years resolution.  I have to do something about building a white box. The figures look a lot better in the hand than they do in the photos, just ask Dazza .

Regarding the flags there are several manufactures producing the Hesian flags with the Lion facing towards the flag staff and a few with it looking over it's shoulder.  There are no surving examples and very few illustrations so any flag will be speculative. 

maciek, many thanks for the links the second one was new to me.