Almost finished Napoleonics

I've almost finished my Napoleonic 6mm French. Just got the basing to do (need to get some short static grass) and flags.I've not used the Baccus style base but stuck two strips to a base so I can have more flexabilty. Still not made up my mind about which set of rules to use. BTY the bases are old fridge magnets!

More Napoleonics

I've finally had the chance to do a bit more to my 6mm Napoleonics.
The next step was to add the black (or in my case Umber) to the 'hats', packs and shoes. I use Umber as I think it give a better overall effect. I then added the light grey bedrolls and finally brown for the muskets. I am using the Perrys painting guide from their box of plastic 28mm figures and so also added a 'dappled' effect with the brown to the backpacks.

Time taken: approx 1 hour



Next I added a strip of silver for the musket barrels and bayonets. then painted the base green (mainly to see how they were looking)

Time taken: 10 mins
Total time so far: 2hours 10 mins.

Baccus 6mm Napoleonics

Baccus 6mm figures
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 white

Step 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 added

Time taken = 1 hour.
So far so good.

6mm Dragon

6mm scale dragon, undercoated.
I think this is by Irregular Miniatures
http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/

Click on the picture for a larger view
Unfortunately, they don't have pictures of all their range and I can't remember which it is. There are a few Dragons listed under creatures. I think this one was the one in the 'Bad creatures pack'.
It has a 'Knight' sat on its back (which gives you an idea of the scale) and flames coming out of its mouth.