15 August 2012

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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7 comments:

  1. Looking good so far! Really looking forward to seeing it finished!

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  2. They are coming along very nicely, John. I'm really looking forward to working on this vignette sometime in the future.

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  3. great work so far. I highly suggested you teach yourself the layering method. It will seriously take your painting to a whole new level. Use youtube or the Games-workshop new painting guide. Its expensive but really well illustrated and it also comes with a dvd showing the techniques(no, I don't work for GW).

    On a sidenote, are these Perry miniatures? I don't recognise them...

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  4. Thanks,

    Hi Achilles the miniatures are from Warlord Games.

    John

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  5. Wonderful work

    Have you played your first game of Saga - I think it's a blast and it's relatively easy to teach to new players

    Miles

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  6. Thanks Miles,

    I am hoping to get my first game of SAGA in sometime in October. I am really looking forward to it, I really enjoyed reading your reports.

    John

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