Paintin', Paintin', Paintin'. . .

Must retouch the shoulder belts I notice. This is what happens when you have three or four different bottles of 'Leather Brown' from different manufacturers and neglect to record which was used for the initial coat. Grrr.

Keep those brushes paintin'. Rawhide! Or something to that effect.

The 14 Eureka Saxon cuirassiers, taking shape as a squadron of the von Polenz, ca. 1733, are coming along slowly but surely. Here's where things stand as the (Sunday) morning of July 6th. Gotta finish highlighting the reds with Vallejo 'Flat Red' after the Army Painter red wash applied yesterday (Saturday) along with the off white wigs and queues. And the mustaches of course.

Following that, the most pressing and tedious task is the carbines slung upside down, which need their barrels, firelocks, and at least some of the more visible brass metal work seen to after that. And then possibly the sword blades and scabbards Things will then get a bit easier. He said. . .

It's an odd thing when you try to squeeze in a bit of painting on a more or less daily basis. Typically burst of 45 to 60 minutes or so. Maybe even a couple of sessions during the better days.

For a long time, there seems to be very little progress from one session to the next. But suddenly, you reach a point where everything begins to come together and light appears at the end of the painting tunnel.

"The light! The light! Come to the light!"

Or something like that.

-- Stokes

Comments

Fitz-Badger said…

I know the feeling you describe about painting over a course of days (or even weeks) and then reaching a point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. For me, I start to see the end is nigh and I only need to do a few more bits before it's done. I get a kind of second wind then.

4:12 PM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Agreed! I started to feel that renewed energy during my final brief session in the painting chair this evening after supper. Got a lot of small nagging things addressed today, and they are finally beginning to come together. And who knows? I might just manage to get 'em finished and glossed well ahead of the 31st. Thanks for your comments!

Kind Regards,

Stokes

9:10 PM

pancerni said…

Finished first of three Landwehr units this week. It is a good thing to have a project look like this most likely is gonna be alright.

4:51 AM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Slowly, but surely we're getting there. I'll share another painting update later today. Thank you for your comment and encouragement.

Kind Regards,

Stokes

7:37 AM

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said…

I'm afraid that leather belts in real life.are rarely exactly the same colour unless blanked or blackened :). Anyway, a fine looking lot.

6:47 PM

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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