This means less button, finery and assorted Victorian fanciness to paint.
This is for three reasons.įirst is that the Russian figures I have are predominantly in greatcoats. I have made the decision to start on my 28mm Crimean figures starting with the Russians. As I am an upwards sort of person I am looking forward to 2014 with some anticipation. I have already completed the flesh on my first regiment and will basecoat the greatcoats tomorrow.ĭue to work commitments (shifts all changed no leave over Christmas) I suspect I have had my last game of 2013. Now this is decided I can get on with the painting. I wondered why that was the case until I realised that none of them were sent to the Crimea. The one thing missing from this is the complete absence of any 'Guard' Regiments. There were 4 active battalions per regiment and each battalion had different piping around the top of the forage cap This is what I am going with unless I discover it is hopelessly wrongġst Regiment. My research was limited to the Intraweb and some Kindle Books ( being cheaper than their hardback or soft back brothers). I am not massively hung up on getting all details absolutely correct but this is reasonably important. The more problematic issue was to do with Russian Uniform facing colours. Photos taken by Fenton even show British officers committing the cardinal sin of mixing uniform and civilian clothes! I could have 'faffed' around trying to mix my own colour but to be honest as the Russians are in 'campaign dress' I can argue that the uniform was altered or adapted to match what was available at the time. In the end having bought 5 or 6 possible, I decided that the most accurate paint for the base colour of my Russian Greatcoats was GW Karak Stone. (They also had the Warlord paints there as well).
#QUICKSHADE SOLO LT FULL#
I know they stock both GW and the full range of Vallejo paints. The first is that my current paint palette was not set up for the colours I need, hence a trip to Dark Sphere near Waterloo Station. My Crimean War booty has given me a few small headaches.
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