Some 95th Rifles
Crikey! Real Life (tm) has been rather hectic recently... When I haven't been working towards crazy deadlines I've been out having heaps of fun with my lovely girlfriend Sarah. Anyway, I've managed to squeeze in a bit of brush time and fancied painting something a bit different. The figures are Front Rank miniatures - beautiful sculpts! The resin fountain is by Grand Manner and the church is from Charlie Foxtrot Models . Painting Napoleonic figures has always been a slow process for me as I tend to get bogged down with lots of details. So with these I've tried a slightly different approach. The flesh is painted in the usual Foundry triad but most of the rest of the figure is just block painted or given a very quick single highlight. I decided that lots of highlights and details are just lost when you're actually playing and viewing the figures from several feet away. A friend (thanks Paul) suggested I follow the old adage of "faces, bases...