Edited Friday 30th September.
No point making another post so adding photos of the completed Guard cavalry commission here. They were somewhat demanding as would be expected of such colourful soldiers, but the end result is most pleasing on the eye I think. They are matt varnished and the bases will be textured over the weekend. Now onto Prussians!
Warlord Epic Imperial Guard cavalry and horse artillery battery.
I'm pleased to say that I have been asked by Dan at Warlord Games to write a guest feature for the Warlord community page describing my approach to painting epics and the Therapeutic angle of my blog which will also help to promote my painting service. Thanks to Graham for the heads up on this.
The Guard cavalry set for Tony 2 (!) are close to being painted, just the final 10 Polish lancers on the table for today and all are done, Dragoons, Grenadier a cheval, Chasseur a Cheval and Lancers 80 cavalry plus a battery of 3 Guard Horse artillery guns. Given the nature of the Guard uniforms it has been challenging but they will certainly look an impressive bunch on the table! Quick shot here of the first 10 painted lancers with swords - correctly intended as second rank - in their finished but unvarnished state. I'll get pics of the entire set together on the table over the weekend.
With the Guard finished today I'll be taking it easy over the weekend, Friday I'll be painting seven additional 2mm bases for Geoff (who has been very patient and kindly agreed to do the prep and basing work for me so I only have to paint them to match those he already has).
For my own Epic Napoleonics I'm continuing to add metal command figures to all individual infantry bases. I now have over 20 units with command with about another 20 to do. I knew from the start that the lack of command figures was going to bother me and when I discovered the old Chariot 15mm range was an excellent match for the strips I took the plunge. Photos below show how well they fit with the 13.5mm epics. These are intended for my planned return to Commands and Colours and I want it to look spectacular. Nice quick paint conversion and addition of (plastic) command for the Nassau boys this week.
Next week I'll be painting more ECW's for Graham but also working in a couple of Prussian epic units for Tony2. These will be 40 figure battalions using half strips (cut down) so 10 figures on a 30mm x 20mm base. Additional command figures will be from Chariot Miniatures. As you can see the Prussians are part of a long term project for Tony and I think they will keep me fairly busy going forward!
Lots of photos below.
Lee.
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| Chariot metal command figures (centre). |
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| Chariot metal British command. |
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| Chariot metal command in greatcoats. |
Another lovely load of painted soldiers Lee.
ReplyDeleteYet again, well done. As I mentioned previously, I especially like the Nassau troops - nice and colourful.
Troops in greatcoats? I almost wonder if you couldn’t make a generic unit in shako and greatcoat. Keep ‘em looking nice and grimy (clearly a hard fought campaign) and the only thing you’d need to add/change to represent different nationalities would be a “command” element. Hmmm…
Cheers,
Geoff
Hi Geoff, I'm just plodding along with my own epics now I'm at the point where I can just add the odd unit as and when. Pleased to have discovered the old Chariot range as they are a pretty good fit with the epics.
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Lee.
Will look forward to your article in WI. I think there is a need for gamers to be shown an ‘easier’ painting method for Epic. Most tutorials on the internet are very highly detailed, which do look nice, but none of us have the time or number of years left to get through all of our Epic stuff if we paint to such exacting standards.
ReplyDeleteDid you see the news from Warlord Games - a new plastic sprue for ACW, giving us Zouave, mounted / dismounted cavalry and skirmishers - that seems a very clever and versatile sprue indeed and is a great indication that the company think Epic is worth supporting.
Hi Norm and sorry for the delay in replying. I think the key to painting epics is bold colours and swift but accurate brushwork, I will attempt to describe it at some point.
DeleteThe new sprue sounds interesting and very useful. I have a new ACW epic commission now and looking forward to it.
Cheers,
Lee.
Lee, great news re WI and well deserved for sure and it will certainly promote your business! The figures look great and if you weren’t doing my ECW you’d be doing my Epic 😆 My chariot miniatures French in greatcoat command arrived today so they will be joining the ranks soon. At the moment I’m doing all the French line in greatcoats and the Legere as normal. That’s to five me plenty of French to use as Nasssau, Dutch etc 😃 I think you will be all ‘Prussianed’ out by the time you’ve painted that little lot.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments Graham. The Prussian commission was a nice one as it's a long term rolling project with no pressure, just what I like :) I have also got another for Epic Yanks, first brigade box on it's way to me this week. As other painting was starting to slow down somewhat - aside from you of course - I went looking for epics as I enjoy painting them as much as the Peter Pigs so all good going forward. I'm happy. All the best with the recovery from the op.
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