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Monday, October 2, 2017

AWI Project - The first four

I  have ever so slowly been working my way through four continental infantrymen. I started with the Perry plastics just to get a feel for how they will paint up and how they will look on the table. I like the initial scheme that I went with; standard blue uniform coat, with red facings, white waistcoat and buckskin breeches. These will be the first four of a much larger unit of 28 or 32, not quite sure how many will make up a regiment yet.

Before I proceed with the rest though I want to paint some samples from Fife and Drum. I'm thinking those are going to paint up quite a bit faster. I'm not terribly happy with my brush work or technique on these four but I haven't really been in full blown paint mode for a while either. I hope everything will really speed up once I dig in for the long hall.

There are a couple of things to distract me though. I need to finish the Lt Winters miniature for ReaperCon, try and get the M4A1 76 finished as well. I would still like to get a diorama together but I'm just not sure I can pull that off on top of everything else. Also I have all those Americans and Germans from the Brigade Games kickstarter to get done. I'm going to work the Germans first and try out some airbrush techniques to achieve a faster tabletop paint job.

So here are the results of my first AWI miniatures:


I was well into the painting and they were looking pretty rough before I remembered to snap a few pictures.

The Blues

For the Breeches!

A slightly different take on the flesh

A bit farther along

And finished, still need to be based but good enough for a mug shot




I think they will rank up pretty good. I also think the blue needs to be quite a bit darker.


4 comments:

  1. Nice modeling. A pleasure to view these troopers.

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    1. Thanks! Just 28 more to go. I need to start painting faster!

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  2. These regulars are looking pretty good. The skin and breech colors are both very good. A dark blue wash might be the way to go for the coats... dyes were pretty bad back then.

    Are you going to keep their hat bows black?

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    1. For the time being they are going to remain black. I have seen a variety of colors used and nothing that really gives a rhyme or reason to it. Of course there may not be one either!

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