Had quite a busy week on the domestic front but managed to paint two more WSS cavalry regiments for Tony and finish off more 6mm basing, and also added another couple of French infantry battalions so not bad overall.
These two cavalry regiments represent the French units of Du Roi and Tarnault. Du Roi wear blue coats and as a 'Royal' regiment the trumpeter wears the Royal Livery. Tarnault wear off white coats with the trumpeter in the Colonels livery decorated with white lace. They are of course Les Higgins castings with an Irregular officer and standard bearer, 20mm scale. You see them her awaiting their coat of glossy varnish as requested as I just need to do a final check over for things such as officers cuff details etc. Horses are a mix of dark browns again as requested with a few lighter highlights here and there.
Looking ahead I have some lovely 20mm WW2 Soviet naval troops to paint for Alister. Around 75 figures with mixed equipment and poses, rifles, MG's, anti tank teams and mortar teams. They are wonderful little sculpts with lots of facial detail, from Grubby Tanks (link). I also have another 2 regiments of foot for Graham (56 Peter Pig figures) so will working them all together over the next 2 weeks. John also has another large box of figures on the way to me this week so February will be nice and busy!
Lee, the Crimea Project basing is coming on a treat. from a hobby groove point of view, it looks like you have found a good balance between commission work and moving your own things forwards.
ReplyDeleteCheers Norm, I'm finally happy with the 6mm basing, I think it makes sense to use larger units in this scale, they are more like Grand manner size battalions just in a much smaller scale! I get the most pleasure from finishing commission units, I always ask myself if I would be happy to have them sitting on my own display shelf and if the answer is yes then they are good to go :)
ReplyDeleteGood to see they’re keeping you busy mate. There can’t be many unpainted miniatures left in the country the rate you’ve been working through them!
ReplyDeleteThanks JBM. I'm enjoying myself at the moment so long as that continues I'll keep painting!
DeleteGreat work with the WSS cavalry and the Crimea project is coming on apace - you are being impressively productive!
ReplyDeleteCheers Ian. Always fancied doing the Crimean war and this is really hitting the mark for me :)
DeleteYour basing (and of course painting) brings out the massed effect of 6 mm perfectly.
ReplyDeleteWonderful work on those cavalry too—lucky Tony!
Regards, James