ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Sunday 13 October 2019

The War of Spanish Succession... French Command.

Greetings...


So here we have the first of my French Command...


I haven't tried to paint these up as any particular personality... They have been painted in classic Blue Coats with Red or Blue facings...I really like this combination as it makes the gold 'pop' nicely.


The horses were painted using a couple of coats of Citadel Contrast Colours over...
Army Painter Brown Fur ( https://shop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=15)
with Gore-Grunta Fur for the Brown horse and...
Halfords Grey Primer ( https://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints-body-repair/car-spray-paints/halfords-primer-grey-500ml) with Black Templar for the Black ...
The Coats are... Citadel Kantor Blue... With a wash of Contrast Leviadon Blue.
The Red Facings are... Citadel... Evil Sunz Scarlet... With a wash of Contrast Blood Angel Red.
The Gold Braid is... Citadel... Retributor Armour Plus Troll Slayer Orange... Then given a wash of Aly's Brown Liquid... This is highlighted with the original colour then given a final highlight with the original colour plus some Foundry Boneyard Light 9C.


Belts ,Flesh and white bits ware all painted in my normal way... Basecoat... Aly's Brown Liquid and re-highlight.






A pleasing little group I think...


The miniatures are as always Front Rank...
https://www.frontrank.com/product-category/18th-century/spanish-succession/
The paints are Wargames Foundry and Citadel...
https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling
Bases from Warbases...
https://warbases.co.uk/?product_cat=premier-bases-metric


 All the best   Aly.

27 comments:

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    1. He is from the French Artillery Crew...

      All the best. Aly

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  2. Pleasing indeed, full of Gallic flair.

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  3. A pleasing trio, for sure! The gold does pop and I like the officer with the spyglass.

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  4. A very nice vignette. I can smell the champagne!

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  5. Excellent. Hot chocolate in Marlborough's carriage awaits.

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    1. And a nice house in Nottingham... ;-)

      All the best. Aly

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    2. And in return - the introduction of English society to celery.

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  6. They look great. Is the the telescope to look for French taunters?

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    1. Thank you...
      He hasn’t see anything new... ;-)

      All the best. Aly

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  7. Very fine command stand there!

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  8. Lovely command vignette and great baroque colour combo!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain...
      Baroque colour combo... I like that... ;-)


      All the best. Aly

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  9. Superb Aly. I like the Contrast work on the horses, I am have been doing experimentation on horses myself and enjoying the results.

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    1. Thank you Mark...
      The Contrast Paints do indeed work well on horses... there are a fair amount of brows and tans to choose from...

      All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you...
      I am at this moment working on the next couple...
      All the best. Aly

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