A smidge more done on these.
To be honest one can hardly see the any difference apart from the base flesh tone. I also added a dark wash to some of them prior to high lighting the clothing. Powder horns have had the metalwork added.
Quite a bit to do, weapons, hair flesh wash and highlights. Still, every little helps as the saying goes!
To be honest these are beginning to grow on me.
Tonight was a bit hectic so not much painting happened…
Not much, but at least I managed some,
The Essex miniatures Militia… well I think they are. To be honest they weren’t as bad to slap paint onto as I thought they might. The fringed jackets however are a nightmare! My fringed jackets are cloth as opposed to buckskin. I fancied a bit of a bright colour hence the blue. They still need a fair bit doing on them. But I believe they will ‘come alive’ when their hands and faces are done.
Anyway to the milestones. My first blog post was a year ago, which is pretty amazing. Up to this blog I would have been lucky to make a week. I have tried blogging at least three times and never got past the first post.
The second milestone is that on the day the blog reached one year old was also the day I hit 1000 visitors. That is totally weird to me. I honestly thought I would be asking my wife and kids to come and reads stuff so I didn’t feel lonely. As it happens my wife doesn’t follow my blog ☹️.
So for anyone who has visited my blog or are reading this thanks a bunch as it made my day 👍
After mixing about half a ton of concrete yesterday, today was a rest day!
I managed to finish the remains of the Sleepy Hollow set.
Here we have the remaining figures. Two agricultural workers and a blacksmith. A couple in their night clothes a member of the militia and a couple of gentlemen of a nondescript employment.
As with the rest these were a joy to paint.
The following photograph shows the full set.
They will join my French and Indian Wars boxes. I will make a start on the rest of my forces soon.
I am honestly not sure what to do with the extra militia I started painting with the Sleepy Hollow minis.
These match in with the Essex minis, but as can be seen from the photo above, not the Blue Moon ones. The joys of the different meaning of 15mm. I suppose I will have to live with the fact that som3 people are short and others tall 🤔
Today’s painting was supported by an appropriate film!
I bought this online, and having watched it today, it suddenly dawned on me that I had never ever seen the start.
I will have to make some suitable terrain to go with this set. I have some 15mm MDF buildings from 4ground. I did try to purchase some snake fencing and other bits and bobs but their Paypal seemed down and they haven’t answered a number of emails.
I am going to make various fields etc to break up the battlefield, interspersed with a large number of deciduous woodland bases.
I managed to get some paint onto these.
Sadly I didn’t get them finished☹️. Too tired tonight! And tomorrow I am on the boat south.
Anyway I present the gentlemen.
If I have one real complaint about these it is the faces, some look really good and others look like they have been hit with a shovel. Ichabod looks particularly weird. This coming from someone who has no skill in this area at all. As the others look really good I would suggest it is a problem with the casting rather than the initial modelling skill.
So once I get back I will finish the ones above then move onto these.
That will mean the whole Sleepy Hollow set will be painted.
After that onto the Militia in the background and thence onto the new stuff still in th3 packet.
I did a bit of painting tonight.
I think I needed chill out from my first day back at work.
Anyway the ladies are finished. I much prefer this batch painting to a bit of paint here and there on multiple figures. I even managed to highlight them all. Something I wasn’t doing to the whole lot.
Tomorrow I think I will do a set of a half dozen gentlemen. I will then have to wait until Friday to do any more as I am off South on the boat to some training in Aberdeen.
I managed to paint something…
This pair is from the Blue Moon Headless Horseman set. All of the others are individual characters from Sleepy Hollow. The Horseman comes as a mounted and dismounted figure.
Instead of the all black figure from the various films etc I decided to make him a bit more colourful, well he had been a soldier, Not sure what colour the Hessian cavalry actually were, but as I had a dark green and a red, I thought why not. I went a bit wild on the grey highlights on the horse, this will need sorting. Instead of adding a bit of paint to numerous figures at once. I decided to finish just this pair. The rest of them can be seen in the background.
A right hodgepodge of colours 😱
I think for the rest I will do them in groups of five or so instead of trying to add a bit of a certain colour of paint to random figures.
Once these are finished I have another 72 to make a start on.
Then onto the ……who knows, so much to do.
And finally I managed to finish a pair of shoes.
Has he had his chips in New France? We will have to see.
My command group is now finished, well apart from the sergeants and drummers.
The mounted officers, without some oik waving a Flag in the way.
The drummer is part way through being painted, he still has a fair way to go.
I am about to make a start on the Militia well I think they are…some idiot threw away the packet they came in and Essex Miniatures doesn’t have pictures for all of their ranges.
They seem to have a military coat, but no sword or, in some cases, even a bayonet. I will have a look for a uniformed militia unit and base these on an original unit. As you can tell by the paint on the civilians I was trying to use up some blue from the officer and drummer.
Well after a bit of a hiatus, I eventually got the French line finished.
I am rather pleased with them…
And next (suivant) I decided to get the mounted officers started so that they can ride the horses I finished.
As they are all the same pose I went for different uniform colours to give a bit of variation.
Once they are done it is onto the civilians and more militia.
The nice thing about the next lot is that they can represent either side.
Oh and the headless horseman kind of represents himself 😁.
Looking at this photo has the advantage of stopping me trying to find my second drummer..he is evidently already undercoated!
I took some of my French chappies outside to play…
I thought they might look better outside, instead they became washed out. Really only a wash to do, some highlights on the flesh and a bow at the nape of the neck. Oh yeah and the cockade on their chapeau. Not that I know what colour it is.
I am going to spray my other ones later before the thunder and lightning arrive tomorrow.
I was hoping to get the next lot earlier this week, but it looks like I won’t be spraying them at the same time.
A bit more on my French tonight.
Knapsack, woodwork, metalwork and bayonet finished. I also managed to get some more done on the horses.
The palomino is looking a bit washed out, it needs a bit more shading and highlighting. The black leather on the bridle etc probably aren’t helping.
I was hoping to get these finished this evening, but as I started late it meant it was not to be.
Tomorrow I shall attempt to start earlier….
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