Continental Infantry Continued

Welcome back.  I had a painting binge over the weekend, and Have got the continentals done up to the basing stage.  Here are the WIP photos I took.

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.

Continental Infantry

As with the Brits, I intend to work through this part of the project by production-line painting.  The first stage will be assembly, followed by a sprayed base coat.  After assembling these guys, it seems a little more daunting than the Brits.  This is probably due to the increase number of models; this time I am painting almost 50 men.  Also, there is an increased number of colours to be painted on these.  My chosen colour scheme for the first batch at least will be blue with red trim/waistcoats, and natural coloured legging/gaitres.  Only time will tell if this is too ambitious.

After assembling all the minis yesterday (I forgot to take a pic sorry), I have now sprayed them blue ready for the painting to begin.

The first stage of painting, and the easiest to carry out was to shade the blue.  I used Army Painter "Blue Shade" to do this.

After the shading was dry, I highlighted back up to add some depth to the blue.  This is definitely the place to stop for one evening, as I am tired, and my wife wants to watch Game of Thrones (Ah, what would we do without DVR lol).

The Next step will be to start adding colour to break up the blue.