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Some Detailing. . .

Here's where things stand with the latest and last batch of Croats about a month in.  Still much to do, but they're coming together reasonably well I think all things considered.

An easy, quiet day yesterday (Saturday) for the Young Master and me while the poor Grand Duchess wrestled through flight delays of one sort or another after a conference in New York City.  She finally made it home about 1am this morning about six hours late. 

Anyway, three sessions of various lengths in the painting chair yesterday, working mainly on highlighting musket stocks and carefully, very lightly adding the musket barrels.  Added the shako plates for the Minden figures and started the musket straps.  I'll finish the final four of those later today before moving onto other musket details and toning down the very bright shako plates with an Army Painter wash.

It's funny what you notice as you work your way through gradually painting a bunch of figures.  Lots of little things to touch up, edges to clean up, places where somehow a darker color or wash did not quite cover all of the basecoat, etc., etc.  I am also wondering about trying to paint in the dull yellow collars on the coats, or just leaving them out.  They are not really visible  beneath the various shoulder belts and straps.  Why risk errant splotches of paint that mess up reasonably ok brushwork thus far?  

But I'm getting ahead of myself.  First, breakfast out with Sonja at one of our local quick and greasy places that we enjoy.  Time to dress and, as the ladies used to say, put on my face.  ;-)

-- Stokes

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