Trumpeter 5th Hussars

So here I go again....

 

Even more colour in this one. Time to try out a few more techniques and styles etc which have been picked up from the figure painters on the site. Hope it all comes together!

 

Box art first -

 

Sorry.......

Seems that the gremlins are back - unable to upload pictures again. Error message is becoming a bit common recently - same has been going on since yesterday 25\04\2010, oh for a stable platform in this brave new world!

 

Will try again another time.

 

Tim

 

 

 

Got there at last, not sure what is happening on the picture front?

 

Box art -

 

 

Detail nice and crisp and I am looking forward to getting on with this - The Pacific may get in the way this evening but at least I am set to go.

 

More later

 

Tim

Tim.

 

I will be looking in on this one,my interest in this era is growing by the day.

 

Can i pick your brain and ask you if you know of any reference material available for Dragoons?

 

I have just purchased the 120mm 6th Inniskillin Dragoon from AMP and i cannot find any decent refence material.

 

Hope you can help.

 

Paul.

Firstly nice choice if figure, and I look forward to seeing some paint on it soon.

 

 

Paul

 

Try some of the Osprey titles, the will have just what you are after, with very good illustrations.

 

 

 

Malc

Paul

 

Malcolm beat me to it, Osprey books would be my first port of call. I find that not all the titles are available when you want, but as reference material they are good when you get what you are looking for.

 

Malcolm

 

It took me a while to find something that I wanted to do. It was the colour combinations on this one that sold it to me. As I said, I am very happy with the choice and the quality of casting is very good, nice and crisp. Will try to keep this updated on a regular basis and with a long weekend coming up I hope to get well stuck in as they say.

 

Tim

  

I am not sure if I will live to regret this, but I have started with the finer detail. Many times in the past, when trying to paint the fine detail, I have found that you go over the margins and then have to either start again, or paint as carefully as possible up to the detail. I am hoping that going this way I may find it easier to paint up to detail cleanly and avoid the slips which always seem to ruin things.

 

However, if it does not work out then I know it will be back to the sink for a clean and start again!

 

So starting with all the lace work. I gave this a light wash with chocolate brown and then started to apply thinned layers of deep yellow. I will continue to build this up adding depth and highlights as required and see where it takes me. Both colours mentioned are Vallejo Model Color which in conjunction with Citadel I find very good to work with.

 

 

Before you add too much detail to the lacing, I would be inclined to add some of the pale blue to the area surrounding the lacing, and then a little under lining.
 This would help prevent  you catching the lacing with a bit of the blue later on.

Hi Tim , nice choice of figureI have a number of Verlindens Napoleonics in the stash, I'll get back to them sometime. You've made a nice start but I would agree with Malc, it might be a good idea to add some of the pale blue around the lace before going to far .

 

I look forward to seeing this one progress

 

Chris

Malcolm & Chris

 

Thanks for your contributions. I was contemplating starting to infill around the lace etc and your comments where the final push so to speak. I have been itching to use my W&N Series 7  "000" brush on something worthwhile and what a joy it turned out to be.

 

 

 

I think the box art is quite close. but its worth checking, I remember painting a Hussar years ago with the shade of blue you are using.

 

Malc