Salamanca Summer Challenge Step 2

Well I have got a bit of painting done in the last couple of days. I have finished 2 more points of SAGA, got all my casualty figures migrated to round bases and re-terrained, painted and terrained 3 new casualty bases as well as started another unit of Hanoverians. And yes, I put a bit more paint on my Barron Larrey project.

I usually try to put 2 highlights on coats, and here I put some Vallejo Medium Blue followed by Vallejo Grey Blue. I have to do this first as I drybrush (have no idea how to layer) and it sometimes goes over to the trousers and cuffs. I next painted on the black, using Vallejo Game Colour Black which is quite glossy followed with a careful drybrush of Citadel Charadon Granite. I then carefully touched in thin layers of Citadel Blood Red, trying not to obscure the lace for the facing colours.

Next up is the horse, I really like inks for horses as it saves me a number of steps and it gives what I believe to be a natural hue. I used Vallejo Brown Ink here. I am having some problems with this as I find Dullcote tends to invade into the ink and cause a cracked pattern despite using AP polyurethane as an initial finish coat. So what I have done here is to apply a coat of AP to the horse only. I will apply another coat when the figure is done. I am hoping 2 coats will solve the problem.

As you can see these are highly detailed figures, I am looking forward to the challenge of applying the white to turnbacks to raise the letter N.

I have also done some of the hair, I usually use lighter shades of brown and the AP works well with them. Still trying to decide what colour to use on Barron Larrey's hair, I suspect black, but still thinking about it.

I will have some new SAGA photos tomorrow as well as some casualty markers in a couple of days.

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