Still not quite there with these 15 Fife & Drum Hessians, but making some nice progress since the last update nonetheless. Getting down to the small details now (and touch-ups). These are not really noticeable at arm's length, but we know they are there, don't we?
With nondescript old ranges like, for example, the 15mm Peter Laings, which had their own charm about them, you could easily get away with leaving out all but the most general colors, and it worked. With more current lines as nice as these 1/56 figures, however, it makes sense, at least to me, to spend a bit more time and effort on the tiny bits if at all possible, to add that extra bit of sparkle. Both literally and figuratively speaking.
Hence my attention past and present to things like buttons. That said, I have yet to address the hundreds of gaiter buttons, for example, on infantry and artillery units. I know. I know.
Giving a nod here to our model railroad brethren, whose level of detail on so many of their layouts is breathtaking. But it is that same painstaking attention to detail that takes their work well beyond simply playing with toy trains on an oval of track in the basement or attic.
And while wargamers -- in the name of playability, modular use, and storage -- can't quite aspire to exactly the same thing, we can nevertheless take a page or two from the model railroaders' playbook now and then. When it comes to the quality of our work, level of personal satisfaction, and presentation to the of the wargaming hobby to the outside world that is.
See what you think. Not master class collector standards by any stretch, but I like to make my painting as effective as, and improve it wherever possible. I hope to get this batch of figures closer to being finished this weekend in any case.
-- Stokes
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