Six bright horsemen
From the Perry 'retreat from Moscow' section of the French army castings. comes six Hesse-Darmstadt Chevauxleger in wintry garb.
My first attempt to use the Army Painter 'fast' colors, and I am happy with the outcome. Coverage is good, colors are strong. They are definitely the 'unhappy Hessians' who will have to fight Cossacks with some regularity.
At 90% done, will present upon basing, finishing hair, fixing mistakes, like losing a hessian head and having to replace with the primed one.
I learned a bit about using the speed paints and overall like using them. That said, they are not magic and have their place in my paint stockpile. I did use only a brown, grey and red from the basic set here.
Comments
The figures are 28mm Perry figures from the French Napoleonic line, part of the retreat from Moscow sets, about 4 pages into the lists. Hessian Cheveaulegers. A couple of the photos are at more than one to one in the photo scale of the phone-camera for their close ups.
Keith,
I paint with a lot of acrylics watered down, with washes and sometimes inks. A cloak or 'lots of skin,' horse or overcoat is where you'd save time. Buttons, sword knots, facial hair...not so much,piping, probably not at all over more time honored methods. I will try to do a unit each of British Light Dragoons and one Austrian Cheveauleger for the test. Of course, your mileage may vary. The coats, cloaks and red sashes in the photos were a swipe of the brush, fast paint out of the bottle.
Best Iain
Ian, particularly I would appreciate your thoughts on how the Austrians paint up for you. I tried a unit using Apothecary white but was disappointed.