Painting 6mm Napoleonics or as I call them 'eye sight destroyers'. I'm currently trying to put the finishing touches to our 6mm Germany 1813 Armies. We've got plans to run a big re-fight of Lutzen. At a recent show, I bumped into someone who follows the blog & we got talking about painting 6mm. Here's a simple step by step for painting & basing.
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| Two finished French brigades |
The figures are Heroics & Ros, with some Irregular. These are French & Italian, Line & Light. The trick with the smaller scales is not paint fantastic individual figures. Just good enough, so when they are put together 'en masse', the unit looks lovely.
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On the painting tray, glued to sticks. The MDF bases marked out.
Some existing painted figures were also glued to the bases. |
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| Figures on the sticks, basic colours applied |
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| MDF Bases planned out |
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| More colours applied, some miracle wash applied. |
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| Belts, plumes & those fiddly bits. |
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| Figures are now finished, the bases are painted brown & varnish applied. |
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| The figures are now glued to the bases |
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| These Italians are in regimental Columns |
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| Basetex is applied & left overnight to dry |
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Some Dry brushing for the earth tones & then some static grass.
I'll also 'touch up' the figures closer to the edge of the base. |
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| Italian Light & Line Brigades |
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| More Italians..... |
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| French Line |
2 comments:
A very impressive collection!
Cheers Phil!
The 'little fellas' are a obsessive labour of love that has been going on for 30 years! However I can see a possible end to project.
Keep up the good work
MrF
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