It’s another Alte Fritz!
Continuing with brushwork completed in July, here’s a trio of 28mm mounted Prussian Seven Years War generals from Wargamer Foundry. The chap in the centre of course, is DAF, though I’m not terribly happy with the degree of facial definition on the figure. The foot version from Front Rank in my last post is better, in my estimation
On the other hand, I’m quite happy with the finished faces on the two accompanying officers.
Earlier this year I treated myself to the Foundry Horses Paint Set. I wanted to up my game painting horses, not my favourite task, really, and decided that it would be a good incentive for me. I’m reasonably pleased with the results. When I added the two rather greyish highlight tones to the black horse on the right, I wasn’t at all confident with it, but here it looks fine to me.
Several of you were kind enough to rise to the challenge in my last post and take a guess at which map I used as the inspiration for the map on the 3D table I printed for Front Rank Freddie. No, it’s not the classic Diplomacy map, though that’s a fine guess. It’s actually the map from the award-winning game Friedrich (Histogames, 2006) which is a very clever and elegant design for 3-4 players using a map that cries out to be used as a miniature wargames campaign setting.
Thanks for looking, and for the comments and encouragement. In my next post, I’ll finish off showing July’s brushwork and some more SYW Prussians for my slowly growing army.
Cheers and blessings to your brushes,
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More nice work there and I love that map:).
ReplyDeleteCheers, Steve. It's a lovely map and a great multi-player game if you can find a copy.
DeleteReally on a roll now, what a fabulous job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael, high praise from you.
DeleteOnce again lovely painted figures, so how big is the SYW army / armies going to be.
ReplyDeleteMine started out with a plan for no more than 400 but now is up to 3500+ in 20mm and 28mm/30mm.
Willz.
Hi Willz and many thanks. My SYW armies are all 28mm and have been an off again, on-again project for years (Ottomans and Russians). My Prussian army is small thus far but I've only been at it for a year - 1 cavalry unit, 2 gun battery, 2 infantry regiments and command figures. Two more infantry units and a cuirassier unit are in the painting queue. I try to paint other figures to wargames standard, but for SYW I really take my time, I want them to look as good as possible. Best, Michael
DeleteGorgeous command stand, lovely painting, the horses have come out really well but the command figures themselves splendid!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, much appreciated encouragement.
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