Recently finished and mustered into service with the Prussian army are these 28mm Foundry sculpts, grenadiers painted in the uniforms of the Anhalt Desau regiment as per Kronoskaf. They will eventually represent the 3/6 Kleist converged grenadier battalion once I get the grenadiers from the Von Retzow regiment finished.
I had a terrible moment when I was spraying these figures with Windsor and Newton matte varnish, I was working too quickly and picked up the black primer can by mistake. It took a split second to realize my mistake but by then I'd done enough damage that I had to essentially repaint the exposed side of three figures. I will never do that again!
According to Kronoskaf these fellows had yellow piping on the cloth backs of their mitres, I opted for an ochre-ish colour which isn't that visible in this photo but which looks good enough for me.
Hurrah boys!
I should get these fellows on the table and give them their baptism of fire. Thanks for looking and blessings to your brushes!
MP+
Michael -
ReplyDeleteQuite a nice wee army you're building there. On the matter of the 'yellow' piping to the grenadier caps, in the field, weather and assorted accidents would probably have faded the yellow soon enough into some kind of beige, tan or off-white. That is quite apart from variations in dye-batches.
I tend to idealise the colours of my soldiery, fully conscious of their comparative unrealism on even the average peacetime parade ground! Even then I'm not especially pedantic about it. We all have our foibles... :-)
Those soldiery of yours will grace any tabletop battlefield.
Cheers,
Ion
Gorgeous looking grenadiers, nice sculpts,lovely painting, cheering civilans are spot on too!
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