Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time gamer. Gaming and model making has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3.

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occasion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of gaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy.

Saturday 3 March 2012

Meet the Angry mob

Well the lads from the Naval Brigade had better hope their "infernal coffee grinders" don't roll a JAM!. The first major warband of Beja tribesman with their religious leader is on the warpath  and looking for trouble.Altogether 109 figures + mounted commander.





I have created a number of stories across the unit , with a mix of casualties and various poses being used. I have also embedded a "blinky" light in one stand to represent a shell burst. All i have to do is turn the modelled shell burst - made out of milliput/ pumice and cotton wool to turn it on. There is a little video here - not great quality but you get the idea.


Very pleased with the look of the unit overall - only another 12 or so to do!

The skin tones were done by undercoating the figures in Humbrol 186 - a mid/dark brown.  Add the black hair , and use this for metallic areas too.This was then given a wash using Vallejo Sepia shade dipping formula- this can be easily thinned with water to give differing effects and it comes in a 200ml bottle! I then did a thinned wash of Vallejo German Camo black brown to help pull out the muscle areas. The clothing was then added in a range of off white , linen, sandy, khaki colours then the whole was again given a thin wash of the sepia dip. A little muscle top highlight was done using a thinned Vallejo dark earth  After that is just wet brush in the shield colour highlights  , and colour the spears and metallic bits.

Right , Napoleonics next I promise - the 23rd - 24th Chasseurs on the stocks

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful figures Dave!!! Love the basing too!

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  2. Cheer Ray - and best part of 600 points too :-)

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  3. Yes! Great Stuff. Reminds me of old Peter Gilder-era photos from the Wargames Holiday Centre in early issues of Miniature Wargames.

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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  4. Ditto to what Stokes said; very much in the "grand manner"!

    Simon

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  5. Awesome looking mob. Lovely basing too.

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  6. I love them. I especially like their skin.

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  7. Fantastic paint job and agree with everyone else re the basing.
    The speed that you have painted so many of these is very impressive.

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  8. Very nice, Dave; the painting work is incredible, and the result, fantastic. You are going to have a wonderful horde.

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  9. Amazing work and amount of figures...

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