Another bunch of mainly 40mm Spanish coming off the work bench this week.
Lets start though with the few French, 3 Perry French fusiliers for the Paris Municipal Guard. Pompoms left black so I can decide on companies once I have fitted them to their bases. This unit is intended to be fairly scruffy, some of the later figures will have breaches and waistcoat and some Bonnet de Police mixed in.
The green faced regiment are coming along nicely, I will add a couple with waistcoats but whilst its easy I will finish off the ones that Tony Runkee had started first.
This was a test figure, as the cut of the Uniform for the Hessians and Poles was very similar to the Spanish I got Paul from Sabotag3d to print a couple without heads (removing them with resin will just shatter) in this case I have added a Spanish bicorne, the join is not perfect, something to consider next time, but the end result looks OK. May do some more of these.
Then three more of the green faced regiment, this takes me to 21 complete so very good progress. Nearly ready to consider basing some of these up.
Whilst these pictures didn't come out so well, I left them in as I liked the fake sunset in the corner.
Mrs C and my son sorted me out with a new mat, sky background and pedestal ring light for Christmas (Thanks very much) so I thought I would use them to add some pictures of the latest 40mm Hessians.
I haven;t cropped all of these so you get to see the mat and background on a couple.
The sky background needs ironing but is double sided and very nice, I like the arid mat, great for India and Spain whilst still working for a dry European mat I guess.
All pompoms black so I can decide on companies later.
3 out of 5 have yellow trousers seam and all have slightly paler Shako covers than the first ones painted.
Lots of different angles as I try out how the lighting works.
Really happy with how the Hessians came out and I think the lighting is also a bit better. I like how this one came out.
So thanks for stopping by. See you again soon I hope.
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Lovely job and thanks for showing the lighting set-up.
ReplyDeletecheers Norm, lighting still a work in progress but getting there I think.
DeleteYour collection in this scale is certainly growing and the Christmas gifts sound a boon. Can we look forward to an action report - you must have plots and plans? Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteStephen
Game planned in a couple of weeks Stephen a few more posts to share first
DeleteBeautiful work 👍
ReplyDeleteCheers Matt
DeleteThay all look great Roger, and the photos are excellent, no doubt aided by all that fancy gear you got for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI think its definately an improvement cheers
DeleteExcellent work
ReplyDeleteCheers Neil
DeleteGreat brushwork Roj. And filled with envy of your new photography set up. On the subject of the growing collection, who’d a thought you’d go big in a mainstream period ;-) cheers, Chris
ReplyDeleteI know Chris, its the figures that have done it I think.
DeleteCracking stuff Roger…
ReplyDeleteIt’s always nice to see your 40 mm toys…
All the best. Aly
cheers Aly will we be seeing more f your 40mm?
Deletegreat work Roger. Look forward to seeing you ACW Rebs
ReplyDeleteGet thee beind me! I ahve no need of further rabbit holes to go down lol.
DeleteExcellent looking Hessians and Spanish, the conversion looks great!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, done a few more of these with head swaps both for Hessians and Spanish see what you think, mixed results in my mind but this one looks fine.
DeleteI look on in envy, but try to place the figure, the Hessians look to have a heavier build than the normal Perry figure, I like the variation of the legs and arms. Keep up the good work Terry
ReplyDeleteCheers Terry, the Hessians are Piano Wargames 3d prints blown up to 40mm by Sabotag3d for me.
DeleteThey look superb and the terrain is fabulous. Lighting is *the* thing in photography isn't it?!
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Many thanks James, yes it makes a massive difference
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