Here's a unit I recently finished. These wooden flats are from Russia, 45mm to the eyes. They're for my imagi-nations war of ca. 1820: Celtican infantry, le 7eme de Ligne.
The figures start like this. Wooden blanks without detail. Thickness is 4mm at this scale. Definitely a painting challenge as where to place the details is a matter of estimation.
And painted.
I did a bit of shading but not at the edges. As the thickness means they're almost semi-round when viewed at an angle, edge shading does not work as it does on a conventional flat. And I gave them toy soldier faces from the front.
Next up, cavalry and artillery.
Very nice with your brush, but the lack of detail looks like these would be a challenge to paint.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alte Fritz ! You're right. I was slightly apprehensive about taking this on, but once I painted the first figure I knew the rest would go okay. And it's good to "push the envelope" now and then.
DeleteI'm rather impressed with these: attractive and colourful.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ion. Glad you like them. Despite taking some liberties with the flag and uniform details, they're still basically Napoleonic French, who for my money had the most colorful army ever.
DeleteVery skilful !
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Soldier Svjek.
ReplyDeleteThey are essentially original illustrations. How do they match up with your Nowikoff and Creartec semi-round Napoleonics?
ReplyDeleteGood observation, Rahway. Someone on Facebook compared to the Strasbourg paper soldiers. As for matching Nowikoff/Creartec, I overshot the mark with 45mm. The next order (on track to arrive in a few days) I ordered downsized to 42mm. The thick bases have to be taken into account too.
DeleteI do like these, however they are way beyond my skill level - I need lines to follow.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve. The newest ones have some lines. Some Napoleonic sets up on eBay at the moment. I just got my second order yesterday with outlined figures. Not hugely detailed mind you, but just enough to make it much easier.
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