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July Painting Challenge: Day #9. . .


Half of 'em, at least, are actually starting to look something like proper wargaming miniatures by this stage.


A couple of painting sessions yesterday afternoon and later during the evening post-mowing the grass, edging the driveway, and those suburban dad sorts of things.  The Grand Duchess has stated that I and two or three other neighbors are in tacit competition with each other for the nicest lawn.  I feel so misunderstood!

At any rate, since you can see the collars of the coats on these Minden Prussian grenadier figures, I carefully trimmed in dark green and dark yellows with a #1 round, taking care to leave a thin line of the previously painted black and white neck stocks showing,  before starting to block in the basic dark blue of the coats with a #4 round during the latter session.  

Strangely, all went well during these two rounds of painting with no mistakes this time to fix later.  It happens now and again. 

Fatigue from the day finally kicked in around 10:30pm, so I left the rest to tackle today since the morning and afternoon are wide open.  I hope you might agree that the Hessenstein Grenadier contingent at right is stunning in its, more or less,  1749 uniform although the figures are nowhere near finished.  

Once the dark blue coats have been blocked in, I'll apply basic dark brown to the musket stocks, drums, haversacks, and any wooden staves before adding undercoats to the metal plates on the mitre caps, moving onto smaller details and some highlighting after that.  

We're starting to get somewhere here I think.

-- Stokes

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Matt said…
Coming along very nicely!

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