During the last weeks it was rather quiet on my painting desk. Different things kept me away from paint and brushes and somehow I was lacking kind of 'painting mojo'. Last week I was lucky enough to have some free time and started painting a nice set of figures which I ordered last December from US manufacturer Brigade Games. Lon has a very nice of Napoleonic figures for different theatres of war starting with the very early Egypt Campaign but covering the Peninsular War and the War of 1812 as well. However there are some very nice sets of British seamen which were sculpted by master sculptor Paul Hicks. I wanted to have them for our upcoming participation game at Tactica Wargaming Show and of course for the 'Navy' bonus round of the painting challenge. Some more tars on my workbench make sure that I'll not miss the bonus round but after two weeks of absence I though a sign of life in the form of a sestet of those jolly good chaps might be appropriate:
The figures are from different packs of the range but I decided to paint more or less the command figures first. The centrepiece of this bunch are a dashing lieutenant and a seasoned boatswain.
Followed by two young and eager midshipmen:
Altogether a nice range of highly detailed sculpts. The poses are very dynamic and realistic. On those chaps I tested the colour combinations and stayed to blue and white more or less. For the other 'common' seamen I'll alter this colour sheme slightly to depict the inconsistency of 19th century navy dress. Since the seamen were responsible for most of their clothing they had a really mixed bag of shirts and trousers. Merely for the jackets I'll stay with a uniform blue tone to create some cohesion in the unit.
However I hope you like the paint job.
Great to see you posting again StefanK and I absolutely love these figures. I will need to get some for my War of 1812 armies, but I doubt I can paint them to your standard. Great work on the faces and subtle shading of the navy blue. I am also taking notes on your basing which is an area that I need to improve.
Keep them coming please.
Excellent work Stefan
ReplyDeleteI like these a lot great work on the basing!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work Stefan :)
ReplyDeleteYou do realise you could have saved these for the Nautical bonus theme round and earned an extra 50 points? ;)
Many thanks, Tamsin.
DeleteMore tars are on their way for the bonus round. :-)
Very well done Stefan! Excellent work all around!
ReplyDeleteNice job with these
ReplyDeleteLovely work Stefan. The uniforms look spot-on but it's the faces that really attract the eye. Brilliant brushwork.
ReplyDeleteExcellent painting here - very well done Stefan.
ReplyDeleteOK these are great, love your brush control
ReplyDeleteIan
Beautiful work Stefan!
ReplyDeleteone more time a great paintwork, congratulations!
ReplyDeletewhere is Nelson please??? the french naval force have to talk to him ;-)
Lovely work, a characterful bunch!
ReplyDeleteNow that was worth waiting for! I've had my eye on these BG chaps for a while Stefan and this might just tip me over the edge.
ReplyDeleteOh, very nice. I like these a lot.
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff, sets Land of Hope and Glory going round in my head!
ReplyDeleteLovely work.
ReplyDeleteWE need to see more of these they are that good. It takes me back to my youth(no I am not that old) but the local Royal Dockyard did do some cracking displays in costume.
ReplyDeleteWow Stefan the blue on these lads is very good indeed and the crispness of the painting is excellent!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work on these Stefan! Glad you're out of the bunk and back on the painting deck again.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your kind words. They are really encouraging!
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