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Black Brunswickers¶

I painted the piping in blue.

After some more reading, I recognized that the piping color is wrong, though. The Brunswickers in the peninsular campaign had the blue piping, but as described in the previous post the miniatures I have are the wrong ones for the setting. The ones I have a are rather for Quatre-Bas or Waterloo. So I repainted the piping to green, making the minis part of the 2nd line batallion.

The line infantry had the pompon in yellow on the bottom and blue on the top (light infantry in reversed order). Colors used:

Pompon, Yellow

70.883 Silver grey basecoat
72.707 Gold Yellow
70.952 Lemon Yellow

Pompon, Blue

70.963 Medium Blue
70.963 Medium Blue

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70.844 Deep Sky Blue
70.963 Medium Blue

&

70.844 Deep Sky Blue

&

70.918 Ivory

Greatcoat on top of Backpack

70.886 Green Grey
70.883 Silver Grey

Green Piping

70.980 Black Green
70.980 Black Green

&

70.968 Flat Green
70.980 Black Green

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70.968 Flat Green

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70.918 Ivory

With that, the first three models are done:

Published 2020-10-17 18:15:10

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[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

The line infantry is done. When looking at the models, I am not sure I will stick with the colors I used for the bases. Now looking at the finished models, it seems a bit dark and reddish-brown... Let's see...

Next up is the light infantry.

Published 2020-10-21 18:34:10

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[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

I decided to change the base color. I replaced the Liquitex Burned Sienna for Schminke College Medium Brown (2 parts) mixed with Liquitex Raw Sienna (1 part) as the base coat; main and highlight color remain the same.

Here is the light infantry with the new base color (and skin, hair and weapons painted).

Here is a comparison of the old and the new bases. I like the new scheme better, it looks more subdued, the burned sienna is much more vibrant. Also, the overall contrast is less.