Went to Tudor Warrior (the new NW show) and picked up a pack of Baccus 6mm Napoleonic French. I've been intending to try some of these for some time now and took this opportunity to pick up a pack without having to pay the postage. Now I've tried 6mm before (Ancients) but never took to them, however, this time I had a plan. Peter assured me (with his well known enthusiasm that I could easily paint them if I treated them as a whole and not individually. I am also a big fan of the Meeples and Merples podcast and Neil Shruck also advised this technique. So I rushed home and did this on the same night!
I am going to try batch painting and since these all have a uniform can develop a scheme. Well that's the plan. I also intend to keep the style 'basic'.
This is how I get on. I'll keep a running total of the time taken.
Step One
Stick to a stick (with superglue) then spray white (both as a undercoat and also because this is the dominant colour.
Close up of figures glued to sticks and sprayed whiteStep two - Blue
Now I added the blue uniform and this is were I realised I'd made mistake number one, I had not checked that all the strips of figures were all facing the same way and had just added the command strips as they came out of the pack. As I painted the blue on I realised it was easier to do all the left arms (front), then right, then back right and back left. If I'd kept the figures the same way round this would have been much easier. Also keeping the command strips separate would have helped.
Figures with blue addedSo far so good.
