The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Tuesday, 4 January 2022

From MikeP: 6mm French Napoleonics and 28mm Victorian Civilians (45 points)

Hello friends:

I'm very glad to be part of this year's Challenge, having participated in some and observed others, it's good to be back again. My plan before March 20 is to focus on my current painting love, the Seven Years War, but who am I kidding, it will end up being a varied bunch of odds and sods.

Speaking of which, here are two regiments of French Napoleonic infantry in 6mm from Baccus, 48 little chaps in all if you count them. I've learned to love this small scale because the overall effect is impressionistic, you want to paint the unit and not the figure.

The 6mm scale also gives an affordable way to create mass battles, which can look stunning with the attention to scenery. The small scale also means I don't have to obsess over Napoleonic details that might get the pendants all worked up. For example, these fellows are described in the Baccus catalogue as "1806-1812 Elite French Infantry" so I gave them all red shako plumes so I can call them Veteran or Elite troops as the game requires and easily pick them out on the table.

Much as I love Baccus minis, before the Challenge is done, I'm hoping to fire up my 3D printer after I overcome some out of the box teething issues and show you some of the amazing 6mm Naps being done by Turner Miniatures.

Next up are these four 28mm figures from Foundry in the UK, from their Victorian civilian range. They are intended as table dressing for ACW era gaming, as well as for my alt-ACW US invasion of Upper Canada campaign.

They're painted using Foundry's tri-tone paint system, which I've slowly been learning to use. I like to think the colour gradients can be seen in the grey suit and blue dress in particular.

I can't think of a way to connect these figures to any of the Quadrant planets, so I'll content myself with 45 points (48 x .05 plus 4 x 5).

Cheers and thanks for looking,

Mike P

Ave, Padre! Welcome back to the Challenge. Very neat work on the 6mm French Naps and nice use of the Foundry method on the Victorian civvies. Your maths is slightly off - that's 44 points, but I'll add 1 point for overcoming the stress of discovering that your blog invite hadn't worked!

Tamsin