Friday, 16 October 2015

Russian LG Cossack WIP2

A wee bit of progress on my Sho Boki Leib Garde Cossacks . . .


That's 9 done and 15 to go although I'm just putting the finishing highlights on another 2 at the moment.

Lovely little figures with very colourful uniforms on AB horses. I'm look forward to having these guys finished off!

I broke my own rule by starting a command figure before the troopers are finished. However it was nice to be distracted by this wee guy. The guidon isn't perfect but will do fine!

Happy Wargaming!
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23 comments:

  1. Rulane10@gmail.com16 October 2015 at 10:19

    Nice brown shades on the horses - what colours are you using?

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    1. Paulalba16 October 2015 at 16:06

      Cheers Rupert,
      I'll pop them in an email to you when I'm back from work. Not all perfect but work fine for me.

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    2. Rulane10@gmail.com17 October 2015 at 01:02

      Thanks. Always did my own guesswork on horse colours which worked well but recently picked up the coat d'arms horse tones set - the roan's good but the bay's toy-town Orange!

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    3. Paulalba17 October 2015 at 01:50

      Yeah your right with the CdA, I picked them up a few years back. Some nice colours in the set but not for intended horse shades. The Roan is handy for an undertone for white socks etc on warm coloured horses.

      2 easy and effective horse colours and both Vallejo. Vallejo cavalry brown mixed with black brings a cracking chestnut shade and depending on how dark you start can be a lovely dark or light chestnut and can be either done with a lighter mane or dark with dark light or no socks. Also Vallejo burnt cadmium red mixed with black gives a rich liver chestnut in 15mm and works best with the dark mane and socks. I'll add the Vallejo numbers if needed.

      I have another chestnut shade I use GW old dwarf flesh as a base with Vallejo 131 added in controlled. This gives the shade of horse similar to the French chasseur a cheval. Nice with light mane and socks, flesh nostril.

      Vallejo dark German camo brown as a base with progressive adding flat brown gives a nice brown horse and with a tiny amount of earth brown into the flat brown gives a controlled bronze.

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    4. Rulane10@gmail.com18 October 2015 at 01:01

      Awesome. Will do some trial and error to see if I can perfect bay - will let you know if I succeed!

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  2. Phil C16 October 2015 at 11:46

    Great looking Cossack's love your horses skin colour's - Nice!

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    1. Paulalba16 October 2015 at 16:05

      Thanks Phil, I've got a few noted down that are different enough to stand out when mixed up.

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  3. Ray Rousell16 October 2015 at 11:49

    Great looking figures. Very colourful!

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    1. Paulalba16 October 2015 at 16:04

      Thanks Ray, its one of those have to have units.

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  4. GaryA16 October 2015 at 12:12

    Lovely!

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  5. Anonymous16 October 2015 at 12:30

    Quality brush work Paul and the horse flesh is very good .
    Regards Gavin .

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  6. Furphy16 October 2015 at 12:32

    Quality brush work Paul and the horse flesh is very nice .
    Regards Furphy .

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  7. Rodger16 October 2015 at 12:36

    Beautiful work on these chaps Paul! Those horses are lovely.

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    1. Paulalba16 October 2015 at 16:01

      Thanks Rodger, wasn't sure if the shading would show up with the horses?

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  8. The Angry Lurker16 October 2015 at 13:27

    I love lancers, great work by the way!

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    1. Paulalba16 October 2015 at 16:00

      Thanks Fran, 11 down now, next painting day Wednesday 😒

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  9. Gonsalvo17 October 2015 at 07:44

    Dreat looking unit, Paul!

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  10. DeanM17 October 2015 at 10:09

    Beautifully painted figures, Paul. I like the video format too!

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    1. Paulalba19 October 2015 at 01:09

      Thanks Dean, it helps me out as with iPad pics can't really get good sized pics plus making a video seems faster than making a blog post at times.

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