A Sunday Hussar Update. . .

Looking very sloppy at this point. Grand Duchess, Young Master, and lawn permitting, I'll finish the dark red undercoat on everything across two or three painting sessions today.

Snatching some time here and there the last few days to apply a 'Bergundy' undercoat to the 14 Minden Austrian hussars currently on the painting table, with a planned red highlight to be added later. Lots of nooks and crannies with these as you might imagine given the dolman and pelisse modeled on the castings among other items. But absolutely everything was red according to much of the information on Kronoskaf about the uniform(s) worn by the Warasdiner Grenz Hussars, so I can't complain too much.

I've approached this step -- my own blue period -- like one might when repainting a room interior. Trim in the outer edges first (using a #4 round brush with a decent point, time consuming to say the least) and the fill in the inner areas more quickly after the fact. With necessary touch-ups once all of that is done. Afterwards, I think that I might tackle the bridles, reins, stirrup leathers, and other assorted straps on the horses themselves next since that is always a slog later. Might as well get that particular series of steps out of the way before the dreaded tedium demon rears his head.

Finally, the eagle-eyed among you might notice that ol' Nadasdy lurking at the back left corner has had no color applied yet to his particular uniform beyond the bag atop his own busby. He'll get his own distinct uniform, and I'm waiting to do that until I need a break from the other 14 figures in the batch. But I've got a few in mind to mull over in the meantime.

Happy Summer Everyone!

-- Stokes

Comments

caveadsum1471 said…

Id say very good progress, coming along nicely, the end is in sight with my current Austrian hussar unit, its just a bit far away?
Best Iain

3:32 PM

pancerni said…

Nice results, your pacing throughout the day is valuable to your look at the end.

12:32 AM

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