David Drage

ANGLO-DUTCH ARMY

The Saga of a Slowly Developing Army!

Part One.

I received my free army very promptly and the same day, before going on to the Baccus website to read the painting tutorial I undercoated the figures with my usual colour, grey primer.

That evening I read the tutorial to find that the suggested colour was black. Now I find that with my painting style (or maybe it is the paints I use) that black gives all the colours a very muddy tone and as these are so small I wanted them to be bright and stand out. So instead of re-painting them black I left them grey.

Next, as i do with larger figures I gave them all a wash of black ink, the theory being that the ink will sit in all the deeper parts and create a shadow effect. However I found at this scale it tended to simply darken the whole figure down .... so i ended up with nearly black figures anyway

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Right I thought, from now on I will stick to the tutorial and get this army finished in a few days (with the odd painting session here and there). Oh how wrong can you be! Anyway more on that later.

Next I started by painting the figures coats, as I had an Anglo-Dutch Army I felt I had to do some Red-Coats. These turned out great, where the grey primer was not to dark it ment the coats came up nice and bright with one coat (baccus 4.jpg - baccus 5.jpg).

Enjoying doing the Red-Coats, I continued with them and painted their cuffs yellow, again the lighter grey helped keep the colurs nice and bright.

I then tried doing some with Blue Coats (you will have to excuse my ignorance of the period, I am an Ancients and WWII player not Napoleonics). Unfortuantley these figures had taken more of the black ink wash than the Red-Coats, so the blue came out looking very dark).

Now at this point I have something of a problem, I have done all this on a Saturday and Sunday evening. At 4am on Monday morning my wife goes into labour (18 hours later producing a bouncing baby boy, Matthew!). Now then generally I would not call this a problem, however it has somewhat got in the way of my figure painting schedule. It is now 11 weeks later and I have not touched a paint brush since.

I must therefore apologise to everyone at Baccus for the delay. The only thing I can say to offset this delay is that I have finally got around to righting up my efforts so far, so maybe I will finally have a look at the figures again in a week or two (3a.m. feeds permitting).

Cheers

David Drage
(Iron Mammoth on TMP)