A Nice Reddish Brown. . .

Vallejo Mahogany Brown in fact. Spent about 90 minutes yesterday evening painting carefully around previous brushwork to avoid too many mistakes. Two or three errant splotches were nevertheless wicked away before they dried, but another will need to be touched up at some point.

It was slow going, not helped by the fact that my stock of #2 and #3 rounds seems to be depleted, and I was forced to rely on brushes with worn out tips of the bristles. These are the sizes I have always used for most of my paining over the years. #4's and #6's for large areas of color or base-coating with #1's and 000 for tiny details. Anyway, must place an order at some point today (it is currently 6:37am here) when a few spare moments present themselves

Maddeningly, I had to retouch the blue on one of left legs when the color began lifting from the white base-coat as I wicked away one of the misplaced -- and subsequent -- splotches of brown intended for the coats. Have any of you ever experience this? It has not been an issue I've run into before with dried acrylic colors that have cured for 24+ hours. Grrr.

But back to the figures.

Like everything else, their brown coats too will get an Army Painter wash and be retouched (highlighted) with the original color later in the painting process. I'll finish the brown coats this evening, and then see if there is time Thursday for another session, or not.

Gotta pack my skis and other stuff into the car for the Friday morning skiing departure although since it is just me, that will not take up as much time. I may well be able to squeeze in 60-90 minutes Thursday night before painting fatigue and the tedium demon do their worst. We'll see.

-- Stokes

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A Little More Brushwork. . .

A little more brushwork on the first batch of (my version of) the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment yesterday (Saturday). Taking a different tack this time and addressing many of the details first before the white coats and other larger areas of uniform. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I've painted the (dark) red stocks of the enlisted men. Always a difficult and frustrating item to paint, it made sense to paint from the inside out as it were and get that particular detail out of the way first rather than try to paint it in later after much other painting has been accomplished. Trying to reduce the need for later retouching of other items on the figures you understand. Hopefully, I will be able to get back to these later today after a second trip back to the Apple Store for help with a couple of new iPad issues and, following the return home, some revision of Google Slides for tomorrow's meetings with my students. -- Stokes P.S. And according t...

Basic Reds Done at Last. . .

S till quite a way to go with the current batch of 20 human figures and a horse (of course), but they're actually starting to look like something after all of the red distinctions. Quite a bit of painting in hour-long sessions the last week as and when time has allowed. Mostly applying the basic dark red to facing areas and turnbacks followed by the inevitable touch-ups to clean up wobbly edges and those misplaced, minute splotches of Citadel Khorne Red. They're looking like so many Austrian infantry regiments of the era at this point, but the eventual flags will turn them magically into the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment, more or less, of the AWI period. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. One frustrating point (ahem) of sad discovery. I've started trying to use those Winsor & Newton 'Series Seven' brushes (#1 rounds) purchased last spring, and the blasted things simply will not keep a point. Very frustrating since I have heard over the y...

It's Early Days Yet. . .

M aking some early progress with Batch A of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment over the last several days/evenings. Nothing terribly exciting just yet, but the basic black, brown, and flesh areas are done as are the green bases, and gray undercoat. The latter two areas needed some careful retouching early in the week. Next up, the neck stocks. I might just do these in red for the enlisted men although some of my source material suggest they were black, but I always look for an excuse to shake things up a bit. Any errant splotches of red (or black) can be covered with another application of light gray before I move onto the next step. "Giddy up!" as one Cosmo Kramer might have said. -- Stokes

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