Hello friends:
As usual, the usual disclaimer about not having posted much here because too busy, real life, etc etc.
I can report some progress on the podcasting front, there is new edition of The Canadian Wargamer Podcast just up, in which we talk mostly about a big Napoleonics kiegspiel we just finished by email.
On the painting front, other than some scale model aircraft, I’ve been working on a unit of 28mm Ottoman Janissaries, metal sculpts from The Assault Group, very nice figures.
I’m totally improvising with the uniforms, just whatever colours strike my fancy. Someone said on Twitter to me today that blue was a standard Janissary uniform, but the rest (and especially the officers) was whatever took my fancy. To me the Ottomans are practically an Imaginations army anyway, but they give my Seven Years War Russians an opponent while I work on my SYW Prussian collection, a longer term project.
The blue and red are GW/Citadel contrast paints, the rest are mostly Foundry tritone paints with some AK thrown in.
Hopefully I’ll have this unit fielded by midsummer.
Thanks for looking, be well and blessings to your brushes!
MP+
I like the look of them, Padre. I'd also read that blue was the preferred colour for the caftan, but by the late 1700's, it was anybody's guess. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteGreat work Padre, Janissaries are fun to paint and to plonk on the table. Like your color choices.
ReplyDeleteLooking smart.
ReplyDeleteSuch flamboyant sculpts deserve to be colourful like you've done, so I think your scheme works well so far. Nice to see you posting mate.
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