Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Workbench, 1812 russians and 23rd foot

Well I spent the weekend painting, and Monday to.


After the slight disapointment of the british, I must say the 1812 russians are fantastic, really and truly fantastic, I normaly make a single unit at the time, 8 figures pr. setting, but I decided to do it diffrently with the russian brigade, I painted all the grenadiers for each of the 4 battalions, today I'm hopeing to paint all the officers and standard bearers.
Then I'll paint the remaing musketeers for each battalion, thats 17 figures pr. setting, or a full day of quite intensive painting, my russian division, is based on the 7th divison at borodino.
So this brigade will be the Moscow and Pskov regiments.




Then we got these guys, I still feel the straps are to thin, but it dosn't show up the much when you get a full unit togeather, now if you look past the straps, the figures are great, the faces are very nice, and they got realy small bases, that one of the things that might be problematic at times, the bases often are very big, even when figures are in march possion, but these are small and nice. it's nice to have a British Napoleoinc 15mm unit again, they do look good on the table.


9 comments:

James said...

I generally paint a brigade at a time in 15mm. Like I'll work on 1/2 one day 1/2 the other. Try and keep it unified more or less.

Those straps look pretty good actually.

Gunfreak said...

Well the brigade i 96 stong, so doing in in two days is out of the question, 20ish is max I can do in a day, those 16 grenadiers took me all day Monday to do, in a tempo that is far above what I usualy do.

James said...

Didn't mean to suggest they could be done in two days. For instance, day one paint coats and faces on 1/2 of the brigade, day two paint coats and faces on the other half. 5 hrs per day is about my max for painting anything. Of course, I've only painted ACW and brigades had a lot of regimental continuity in the ACW, therefore, I sort of feel that each brigade should be painted as a whole. Irish Brigade, Iron Brigade, Texas Brigade, Stonewall Brigade, etc..., etc....

Dan said...

Hi Gunfreak, nice figures, Russians are something I have never painted in Napoleonics, I will do them one day, well done.

Dan said...

the most 15mm figures I will paint at a time is 20, but 12 is a nice size group.

Gunfreak said...

I'm painting 12 right now, officers and standard bearars,and it's a lot easier going then 16, those extra 4 make it seem like a real chore, when doing that many, I reminds me of my 6mm painting session, there I could do 40+ at a time, but even tho 16 is a lot less then 40, it got some of the feeling, when you go one pile, that needs their jackets painted, and you start painting, and you paint like 8 of them, and still the un painted pile is big, it seems endless

James said...

I guess you could say I see it as any artistic endeavor. It involves a lot of work, as well as, imagination and inspiration--hopefully.

Jim

Gunfreak said...

Thats true, I have now painted all the greandiers, standard beares and officers, I now only need to paint ALL the musketeers, all 68 of them.

Tomorrow I'll start on the 17 first tomorrow, I hope to do them all in one day, then another 17, then another, anf finnaly the last 17, then I'll have my first 1812 russian brigade

James said...

Beyond the artistic endeavor, there's the intellectual exercise. If the exercise weren't there, than I see little point in the artistic endeavor.

Just my 2 cents.

Jim