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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

British Riflemen and an Orthodox Priest


Those of you who know me well or have been following the blog a long time have probably heard me say something along the lines of “I’d have to suffer some pretty severe head trauma to ever ‘get into’ napoleonics”…

I think I must have fallen off my bike… and I don’t even remember…

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)


Some (shudder) Napoleonic British Riflemen. (figures from the The Foundry). It was an odd pack they had at the Den when I was there for their Boxing Day sale (on all week – 25% off everything store-wide!) and I thought… “what the heck”…


An Eastern Orthodox Preacher from Brigade Games - it came in a pack of Tsarist Officers from their Russian Civil War line.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Surely I’ll finish up a couple more to make it an even 800 foot for this year… Only 14 mounted all year!? I guess that’s what happens when you concentrate on a period when cavalry was on it’s way out…
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7 comments:

  1. Bob BarnetsonDecember 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    Not Naps! Ahhhh! Can you at least use these guys for War of 1812?

    Bob

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  2. timDecember 28, 2010 at 4:32 PM

    I dunno about these guys... but I'd totally be interested in the War of 1812 sometime. One of these days I'll model them both (Americans and British) in 30mm - that way I could use the British to go thump on John's Frenchies on the continent...

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  3. Will ScarvieDecember 28, 2010 at 4:57 PM

    Hi Tim,

    I've been following a few of your blogs for some time now. I'm amazed at how quickly you seem to be able to crank out nicely painted miniatures.

    From what I can tell, it looks to me as though you use a black undercoat and then, for almost everything, a single color coat leaving heavy black-lining. Is that right? And when do you typically deviate and take an extra step (adding highlight or shading somehow)?

    If you've already covered your painting technique in a blog entry somewhere, please feel free to just link to it :-)

    Thanks very much, and keep up the inspiring work!

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  4. timDecember 28, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    Thanks!

    Yep, that pretty much sums it up... Black undercoat, one coat of colour (leaving black outline), occasional highlight. Pretty darn okay for the tabletop and fast. When I throw a hundred guys on the table - no one notices that I didn't use washes for every damn colour (Quantity, truly does, have a quality of it's own!)

    If you click on the "Painting Tutorial" label and scroll down there's a post where I kind of go through step-by-step how I painted a modern British officer in DPM.

    cheers!

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  5. Will ScarvieDecember 28, 2010 at 5:18 PM

    Thanks Tim! That tutorial lays everything out nicely.

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  6. MillsyDecember 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM

    Hi Tim,

    So will you be using these for skirmish? Coincidentally I've just painted 6 x 95th in 28s as well. We're going to use Song of Drum and Shakos which looks nice and simple but fun to play. Matakishi has a page on his site about Nappy skirmish and a few people there recommended it.

    Cheers,
    Millsy

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  7. timDecember 28, 2010 at 6:15 PM

    I don't know what I'm going to use them for... It just seemed like a good idea at the time. I'd need some opponents first...

    I use Savage Worlds for all my skirmish gaming. I've used it for 18th Century games (Pirates or French and Indian War skirmishes). I guess I could use them in a one-off skirmish involving time travel... or any of the generic monster horror figures I have (zombies... werewolves...).

    Potentially they could be used for skirmishers in a Black Powder game...? that's probably what inspired me to buy and paint them - I'm reading Black Powder right now and getting pretty pumped about trying it out. Not so pumped about the massive number of figures used in the game... but... whatever...

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