ALYS TOY SOLDIERS: Shiny Napoleonics... The Royal Scots Greys

Sunday, 17 March 2019

Shiny Napoleonics... The Royal Scots Greys

Hurrah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDvyGifRE0

Well if that doesn't get your Napoleonic dander up ... nothing will...

The first (shiny) unit...
I actually painted these last year... but I have fussed around with the standard and the basing until I got the look I was after...

The Royal Scots Greys...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Greys

It couldn't really be anything else (for me, that is)... One of my favourite British units, I have spent many an hour in their museum in Edinburgh Castle.

https://www.scotsdgmuseum.com/

One of my first purchases on this shiny journey was a rather large unit of Minifigs S Range Royal Scots Greys... More than I needed in fact.

They were neatly painted and in very good condition...

The one thing that I wasn't to keen on was the way the horses were painted...they had been stippled in two shades of grey... I wanted a smoother finish...

I managed to match all of the colours from my collection of paints... so I could tidy everything up a bit... All the metal work was redone with modern 'brighter' paints... The horses were repainted with mostly...

Citadel... Stormvermin Fur and Administratum Grey.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling?N=3815391097+3918877057+2542067766&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AGB_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_GB_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1552829820000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1552829820000%5D

Everything was given a coat of Aly's Brown Liquid... I experimented a bit by adding some Acrylic Gloss varnish to the mix to see if it would deepen the shine ...

Everything was re-highlighted with the original colours slightly diluted with some Acrylic Gloss Varnish...

They were then given a generous coat of...

Wilko's Gloss Yacht Varnish...

Did the extra gloss layers deepen the shine of the finished figures?... Probably not!
I shall use my normal method next time...

The bugler certainly looks very shiny...

I wasn't sure what to do with the guidon. I didn't fancy drawing the whole thing out free hand but I did want a more hand painted style...

After a number of unsuccessful tries and a complete loss of patience I went for one from GMB Designs.
https://gmbdesigns.com/product-category/28mm-range/28mm-range-napoleonic-wars/28mm-range-napoleonic-wars-british-1801-to-1815/

Its a little oversized... as its from the 28mm range... but I rather like big flags.
I sealed it with matt spray varnish then gave it a good coat of gloss.

I think its turned out rather well.