Saturday 16 January 2016

From ChrisH - 28mm Napoleonic Austrian Infantry (181 Points)

As promised in my last post I needed to do some historical miniatures for a) sanity sake and b) with an eye to sell them some where down the track. I prefer ancient and medieval figures but have not got around to preping much up of late so Naps it is. Oh by the way Tamsin there will not be a great flurry of unit after unit of white clad minis coming from me unlike another year and another entrant.


I prefer the dirty campaign look rather than pristine as I always feel that 3 days marching up a road in a white uniform would leave it somewhat well.............less white.



I tried a new technique (Gloss varnish then white spirit or shellite in Australia with black and brown oil paint, then removed with a cotton wool bud) with this lot but found the varnish I used was too sticky and it took the fluff from my cotton wool buds. Thus an extra two hours of fluff removal has me fondly desiring to return to an old and trusted technique. Matt varnish with a drop of black or brown as a "Super Wash".


36 minis at 5 points should net me 180 points.
Yawn... Stretch... Sorry folks. I was up waaay too late and slept in. The trouble of a middle aged man who still enjoys keeping teenage hours.
OKAY! Espresso in hand, glasses on face - let's get to it.
Whoa. Beautiful work Chris. This is a nice beefy unit, which I guess it should be if it's Austrian. I imagine it tromping out of some depot in Austria with the men thinking that it will be THIS TIME, this time for sure that they will send that little Corsican packing. I really like the campaign look you've gone with and your groundwork is great. I dunno, That finishing technique you describe with the cotton wool sounds kinda fussy. Anything where you have to brush on and wipe off makes me cringe, as I know I would probably completely botch it up. 
Are these Perry plastics? The models themselves look very nice.
180 points, but I'm going to pop in another for the flag.  Well done Chris!

19 comments:

  1. Oh I can imagine the naughty words... But the end result has still worked just fine.. My favourite army for the Naploeonics are Austrians ...I would not mind having these in mine.. Well done sir

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  2. A fine looking unit, nicely weathered. I agree with Curt that it sounds fussy but it works like the dickens! Cheers Peter

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  3. Nice Austrians - cracking work Chris and sorry to hear about the cotton bud fluff problems :)

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  4. These are great, you got the look just right

    ian

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  5. That's a lot of nice and crisp white uniforms, well done!

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  6. Eek, those kinds of trials and tribulations are sent to test us! Great recovery work and the result is outstanding Chris. There's something special about nice big units of Naps.

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  7. really nice looking unit!

    great technique to paint so much figures!

    thanks for that.

    GillesW " from the little corsican fan club ;-)"

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  8. Marvellous work, a very impressive unit - and a difficult one to paint. Greetings!

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  9. Great looking Austrians! Your take on that campaign look does look highly convincing.

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  10. Hell yeah! Austrians! Love it. Great work.

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  11. Great to see more Austrians, wonderful!

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  12. Wow, 28mm Napoleonics are so intimidating. Lovely work!

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  13. Thanks for all the positive comments all, yep cotton wool bud technique may be about to go in the bin but it still worked. They are Perry plastics that have that marching to war quality about them and I am tempted to try some metal Jagers to see how they fare on the more shooting rather than marching fashion.

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  14. I am always excited to see nice Napoleonic's painted well. I do like the colour and the spectacle but bad players in my history push me away from the period. Which is a shame as I know there are many decent wargamers out there.

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  15. These are a really sharp looking bunch. Sorry to hear about the cotton ball fail. I feel your pain.

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  16. Glorious looking block of Austrians! Very nice work on em! I can sympathize with the cotton fluff mishap, I know I invented several new phrases when cottonwood seed clumped up on my fishing line....and that wasn't painted minis either! ;)

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