Another 28mm offering set up for Doug's General du Corp fast play convention game. This project was a temporary casualty from the move but I've managed to finish it off. I'm quite pleased the with quality of the front rank miniatures. They cleaned up nicely and were very easy to order (and choose the exact poses!). My old mistake was a typo that got me some more infantry instead of riders for the horses I bought. Ooops.Like most napoleonics the details of what colours to use are quite confusing as it covers a period of 10 (or more) years, with numerous organizational changes. In this case the flag was most confusing (yellow or orange seemed to be the real question). I ended up printing off a flag from the interwebz, and then going over it with some paint to enrichen the colour and cover up some of the pixellation. This was mostly driven by the ink jet starting to get clogged and running slow on certain shades. I'm pleased with how it turned out.
My one complaint/criticism is that the standard bearer only came with a metal rod, so there was no device on the top. I tried sculpting one in green stuff, but it's a bit large/bodgy which will be much more noticeable when with other standard bearers.
Nice work on these Dave, and I think the mix of poses makes them look as though they are engaged in the thick of battle.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence. The front rank range was pretty sweet.
DeleteReally good looking troops mate. THe flag looks great regardless of historical accuracy or not!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai. I was a bit dubious about how it'd turn out with painting over the ink, but it does have a pretty fine look. Almost tempting to do that with more flags....
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