15mm Old Glory French 8th Cuirassiers

I just finished these up today, they are the French 8th Cuirassiers regiment.  I have not painted the trumpeter yet as I have conflicting color schemes for him, some say green, 1 said an Emerald Green color and another said that they can/should be the same color as the rest of the unit.  If anyone knows this, please let me know.  The models themselves do not have carbines but I am modelling them for Quatre Bra as that is what I am basing my armies on to build them up.  Anyway here they are...

Again sorry about the crappy pics, I have camera issues - e.g. mine sucks!

Latest 15mm Creations...

Well I just finished up the following units based up for Lasalle at a minimum, they are a mix of Essex and Old Glory 15mm figures.

1 Regiment of British Heavy Dragoon Cavalry
1-Regiment of French Guarde de Honour
10-Misc French Artillery pieces.

Painting Brass or Gold

I just hit on this trick of painting brass or gold onto your mini's and it works good too!  On an area that you intend to paint brass or gold, paint some GW  Foundation Iyanden Darksun(thinned a bit) first and after that dries, paint your gold or brass color over top of this.  Wallah, thats it.  if I had a good camera that could do macro's well I would show you, but I do not so you will have to trust me and try it yourself... ;)

Cheers...

Back to Napoleonics...

While I was working on the Titan, I was painting these guys.  This is the first 2 of 7 Regiments I have to paint along with 2 Regiments of Bavarian' s,1 Regiment of French Guard de Honour, 3 regiments of French Hussars, 1 Regiment of Polish Lancers, 1 Regiment of Cuirasiers, a bunch of  British Cavalry, some Hanoverian and Brunswick infantry as well as Artillery for both sides and then I should be ready for some gaming.  Then I can move onto painting either my 28mm ECW stuff or my 28mm Napoleonics.  Whatever strikes me when done with all the 15mm stuff.  God I will never be done!!! ;)

Forgeworld Commision done!

Well I just finished the Forge World Warhound Titan for my friend.  He wanted me to build it and he was going to paint it.  It was not overly complicated at all.  MY biggest concern is that it is VERY, VERY FRAGILE!  Being that it is built from resin, for me it would be a Trophy queen(ie it would not be transported anywhere!) and stay on a shelf near the gaming table.  I can not imagine driving anywhere with this in the back seat, I would be so worried about it not getting damaged that I would probably get in a wreck or something.  Well anyway without further ado...

Pray that you never have a look at this thing if you are an Ork or Chaos Marine as it will be your last!

New Commision of sorts...

A friend of mine came over last night about 9:30pm with a big box in his hands, after cutting it open I discovered a Forge World Warhound Titan.  He wanted me to build it for him, I had never built one before so I thought I would give it a go. I am doing this for free as he is one of my friends, I know call me stupid, but that's how I am... Anyway I have the feet done and the leg pieces trimmed.  I don't want to go any further as he needs to make some choices on shin armor etc.  So here are some pics so far.

 Above is everything getting sorted out and lining up the foot pieces for cleaning and assembly.

Above are the foot pieces trimmed, cleaned and ready for assembly.

Above is the foot assembled and the leg pieces getting sorted out.

 

Here are the shin armor pieces with the left over injection tubes where the resin is injected into the mold.  So that is it for know.  Off to browse the web looking for a job and latter painting some 15mm Essex Bavarian infantry.

Cheers...

2-15mm French Infantry units done to add to my guard units already done.

Well I have completed 2 more units bringing my French up to 3 units so far and painted in as many days.  The flags are from http://www.warflag.com/napflags/ . They have some great flags there that are scalable and not for just Napoleonics either.  Again I am right now going to fill out force quickly, not Contest winning paint jobs.  So without further ado...

Credit is where credit is due...

I have been painting for a long time, but I am usually pretty scatter brained when it comes to what I do, I usually paint something until something else I have gets my attention and then I paint that for a bit and so one...  Anyway after going to a friend of mine's blog and seeing what he was doing, completing armies etc. it gave me the motivation to paint armies instead of units!  So anyway this is an excerpt of a conversation between he and I, and well the rest is history so to speak. 

A couple of messages between he and I...

Me:
"yea, I am trying to get enough to be able to play.  I have been collecting for a while but never really putting my back into it to get units painted.  Anyway after seeing everything you were doing, you gave me the incentive to kick it in and get some stuff done.  They are not as detailed as your stuff by a long shot but for me right now that is not the point of my painting.  Speed is it right now with a little bit of detail..."

Him:
"That's awesome great to inspire others it's such a great hobby. would be great if you could put this on the blog so that others like yourself might see the comment and might also be inspired . Cheers heaps and keep up the great work"

Here is his blog below...

http://kentspainting15mm.blogspot.com/


So as the topic states, "Credit is where credit is due".  Thanks mate... :)

15mm Essex French Old Guard Done!

Well I just finished this unit of 32 figures, it took me about 4 hours to get them to this point. So this is the first unit/regiment I have done for my French.  I have the flag mounted but I am waiting for the glue to dry before bending it into shape.  Also as usual I have not flocked the bases yet as I am waiting for the super glue to dry... let me know what you think... ;)  NOTE: I am painting these for table top quality, not painting contest quality.  I save the better painting for 28mm or bigger.  Also if it were for commission I would paint to a higher standard as well.  Right now I am building the armies and am just trying to get the field filled.

15mm Essex French Old Guard

Well after finishing up the first 6 units of British infantry, I thought for balance sake and my sanity I should do some opposition.  So I thought since I had started with highlanders for the Brits, I would start with the Imperial Guard for the French, specifically the Old Guard.  I started working on these yesterday morning and had hoped to have them finished them yesterday but then my FLGS called me saying my Warlord Games sakers and 1644 came in so I had to clean those up for painting and read the rules I have chosen for my ECW gaming, 1644.  So anyway back to the Old Guard, I have the tunic base color and a highlight color done. The blue I used on the French, which I thought would be the right color, turned out to be too dark painted over the black undercoat so I had to do a hi-light color. So here is the first unit of 32 so far.