FredG Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I've finally started my 1806 Prussians. They will all be Hat and these are not the best figures that I will ever have to paint but neither are they the worst. I've been pleasantly surprissed how they inproved with the final washes. This set are marching Grenadiers from IR4 and IR54 which make up a Grenadier Battalion under Oberstlieutenant von Vieregg (IR Nr. 54) who will be appearing at a later date. I haven't based the officer yet as he's waiting for a mate from IR54, his boss and a few others. This one is IR4 Vorwarts meine kinder! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wasley Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Brilliant work as usual from you Fred,and as you say the wash has brought out the fine detail in this small scale,Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted November 18, 2018 Author Share Posted November 18, 2018 IR46 Thile in advance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 The third instalment of this set, the firing line IR10 Wedel IR41 Lettow The Grenadier Battalion of Major von Borstel (IR10) Grenadier Officers of (L - R) IR46 Thile, IR54 Natzmer, and IR4 Kalckreuth. Still one more instalment to come. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPL Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 they are very fine. But do you 'dip' your little men in black? As here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 (edited) I've no idea what you mean. These are Infantry on campaign. By the end of the campaign the troops would quite often be barely recognisable as human so to show pristine full dress uniforms when in combat is a little silly in my opinion. Edited November 30, 2018 by FredG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPL Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I have no intention to start a fight here. I happen to disagree with your opinion. These little men get life from exaggeration. Take a look on the pictures published on HÄT's homepage. If you try to obtain something like scale 'truth', you cannot see anything. Even at close range you are about a 100 meter from a full scale person. How much do you see then? By the way, at least Napoleon asked his soldiers to be in galla when marching up for a battle. I am in no doubt that that was also standard in other armies at the time. These French are made with a similar technique to the one you apply. To me they look 'flat'.. These are very different: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 (edited) Perhaps if you stopped looking at the figures with a modern eye for colour you'd realise that the "flat" look you don't like is more historically correct. Natural fibres coloured using natural dyes,. Dyes that run so reds end up as a light pink stain. "Whites" that are often unbleached so should be shown as ecru. That's before we get on to rain, mud, dust, burnt powder effects etc. I know many like to put a black border around detail to highlight it but really, to my eye, it just makes the figure look like a highly coloured in strip cartoon. Have your opinion by all means but if, as you espouse, you don't want to start a fight please keep it off this thread.. 👍 A topic on painting techniques and historical representation/exaggeration in small scales would be far more suited in its own thread. Edited December 1, 2018 by FredG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPL Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Again, you started it. I just asked if you dipped your figures, e.g., in black. Historically correct, then you should paint the figures all in grey with a faint tint of blue or red or whatever. I referred you to the HÄT homepage to see for yourself. It is like airplanes: Historically correct when it comes to WW II planes. But then we may study color photos from the time, and you will see that a special trend among modelers highlighting this and that has nothing to do with reality. It is just the way modelers have chosen that it should be. You can see from the example I put in -- the French -- that I formerly painted in the same way as you. But the effect of the dipping is much more dramatic. But: Chacun son goût, as they in French. I guess that it is best to leave it here, and maybe take it it up elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 9 minutes ago, NPL said: I guess that it is best to leave it here, and maybe take it it up elsewhere. Just as I was thinking we didn't agree on anything. 😀👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPL Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I will let my small men speak for themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 Apparently they're lost. They're in the wrong thread. This one is titled 1806 Prussian Grenadiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPL Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 it is called Napoleonics, as you have it among your interests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredG Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 I do know what the title is, I typed it. Den del som säger att Napoleon är en tagg. Det är inte titeln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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