The first stage was to add some colour to the blue. As I am painting them based on one of the regiments in the Perry Miniatures Guide leaflet included with the box, the contrast colour would be red. During this stage, the waistcoats and trim were painted red and shaded. This was quite dark, but I was hopeful it would be rectified during the highlighting process
The red was highlighted up, making it a lot brighter and improving the contrast a lot. The legs were then painted some neutral brown colours, to represent the clothes worn by these provincial troops.
Some shading/highlighting applied to the legs, and the white trim painted. Starting to look a lot more like continental troops now
Troops finished and waiting for basing. I have ordered some movement trays from Sally 4th to move the groups around. Next job is the next block of brits and some terrain.
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