Only a few there

Take care

Andy

You don't do things by halves do you Peter!

I admire your optimism that you will get through that little lot by painting batches of 5-10!!

I have a Pendraken late roman army that is still not painted, due to similar optimism. But I have to say you are knocking things off your list way faster than m, so it might just work.

Quote from: fred. on 27 November 2018, 06:44:18 PM
You don't do things by halves do you Peter!

actually i do, i have enough to end up with 17 batallions, and 1st corps at waterloo (wich i'm doing) had 33 batallions, so i'm representing about half of that.

Still don't know what i'll do, represent two whole divisions, or represent all 4 and  only have all First batallions of each regiment represented.

Quote from: fred. on 27 November 2018, 06:44:18 PM

I admire your optimism that you will get through that little lot by painting batches of 5-10!!

I have a Pendraken late roman army that is still not painted, due to similar optimism. But I have to say you are knocking things off your list way faster than m, so it might just work.

One of the reasons i went with warlord games miniatures and not the perry equivalent, the warlord ones are all in greatcoat and should paint up much quicker!

The plan is as follows:

i have painted up one unit already:





I like how they look, but the different colours of greatcoats took ages. Now that got me thinking, if i do 10-20 models at a time with for example a grey greatcoat, that would be much faster than doing them in different colours. Next batch all brown greatcoats, next all beige greatcoats and so on.

i would end up with a lot of different colours without the hassle of painting the different colours all at once. final step is to paint up the commands and mix the different colours of greatcoats in units.


My only worry is that i will not have much 'rewards' while i'm painting. when you paint a unit at a time you get a 'reward', a finished unit that you can use. When i do it like i planned, i will not get that 'reward' untill after painting about 225 miniatures. might be bad for motivation!

Just make it a BIG reward, these look great.

Thanks.

Big reward or not, i think i'll get bored of these by the end though!

Looking good, Peter ! 

Cheers - Phil

Those look great and worth the effort on the coat colour variety .

Yes, i always like more variety!

Although, all box art of the models always shows them with all the same colours of coat.





I really wonder if that would be at all realistic, especially since the army was raised in such a short time.

Bloody hell you're fast, can i send you some of mine to paint 

Take care

Andy

Ha i think there's a misunderstanding here. I painted these a whilz ago to test the scheme, i didn't paint them this week!

They only took 2 nights if i recall correctly though!

Quote from: petercooman on 28 November 2018, 03:45:47 PM
Ha i think there's a misunderstanding here. I painted these a whilz ago to test the scheme, i didn't paint them this week!

They only took 2 nights if i recall correctly though!

Lol I see that is still fast

Take care

Andy

It would depend on the unit, but grey, buff were common

Quote from: mad lemmey on 28 November 2018, 05:22:36 PM
It would depend on the unit, but grey, buff were common

I'll just stick to the plan, a mix will do well enough, and will keep it interesting!

did some more prepwork, this time some skirmish napoleonic models for song of drums and shakos



Some nice models, but some c**p castings as well from perry miniatures. Usually they are quite clean, but the rifle command had a bad officer. after 15 minutes of carefully trimming and filing i ended up cutting the sword of and replacing it with a plastic one. Really dissapointing.
Also a lot of cleaning up to do on the french horses. Normally a quick pass with a file gets them done, this time i even had to cut the moldlines with a knife, because they were too thick.

The warlord games voltigeurs were great too work with though! (liking their models more and more, compared to the perry stuff, the metal they use is just more 'durable')


I'm starting to think my mini challenge will be a lost cause though. I'm just in the middle of a 'napoleonic itch'. Can't help it!

Good batch