Completed grenadier of the Gatinais Regiment,1781

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

Hello everybody,here's one of the first Grenadiers to joing the formation.
he is wearing the 1779 regulation uniform for the French Army.
Paints in acrylics and as follow:

coat : Andrea's white paint set

Hat : German grey,dab of japanese unifor and dab of sunny skintone,lights
more sunny skintone,shadows added black to the base c.

Face and hands : Vallejo panzer Aces flesh paint set.

Pants : deck tan (base),off white added to the base for lights and stone grey for first shadow and greman grey for last shadow.
Gaiters : Pale grey-blue,lights added white to the base and shadows added dark grey.
Hope you like it.
cheers

Mike Stevens · Feb 8, 2012

Very nice. I like it a lot.

housecarl · Feb 8, 2012

Great work Daniel.
Carl.

hmslouie · Feb 8, 2012

Daniel,

Very,very nice work. What was your purple colors used?
Did you make the flag that was with the one soldier?

Keep up the good work.

Sean

DaveG · Feb 8, 2012

Bravo on another really smart looking figure. Looks great with the rest of the group. I hope you will continue to add new figures to this line up.

DG

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

Mike Stevens said:
Very nice. I like it a lot.

Thanks for stoping by Mike and i am glad you like it

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

housecarl said:
Great work Daniel.
Carl.

thanks Carl

Jaybo · Feb 8, 2012

Daniel,
Wonderful work....love the ancien regime period. The whites are very well done. So you are an acrylic (versus oil) guy?
Jay

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

hmslouie said:
Daniel,

Very,very nice work. What was your purple colors used?
Did you make the flag that was with the one soldier?

Keep up the good work.

Sean

Sean,i am so sorry,i was so excited to post that i forgot the facing colors.
On the previous figures i've used:

Base,Vallejo Royal purple and a dab of black.
Lights;base plus ivory.
shadows;base plus black.

For this grenadier i decided to use the royal purple palette from Foundry,i really like them,it comes in 3 little pots,
Base (nice and not too dark),light and shadow.
I still added some more ivory to the final lights thou.
If you have any other questions i'll be happy to help.
Best regards

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

hmslouie said:
Daniel,

Very,very nice work. What was your purple colors used?
Did you make the flag that was with the one soldier?

Keep up the good work.

Sean

I painted the flag,yes,but i decided to use a Blue/violet hue rather than violet so i could have some contrst between the flag and facing color on the regiment.

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

DaveG said:
Bravo on another really smart looking figure. Looks great with the rest of the group. I hope you will continue to add new figures to this line up.

DG

Dave, i still have 12 more figures to add

I nickname this grenadier "Tom selleck" lol,maybe the pic does not show it very well,but he really resembles the actor.

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

Jaybo said:
Daniel,
Wonderful work....love the ancien regime period. The whites are very well done. So you are an acrylic (versus oil) guy?
Jay

Jay,i really like the acrylics and i think i am getting the hand of it,i use oils (testors) for the metal parts which i suck at it,not really good but try to learn every day.
I love the "Ancien Regime" period,i have tons of books and color plates.
Thanks for visiting my thread

ChaosCossack · Feb 8, 2012

Daniel

Another nice addition to your regiment. The simple colour mixes do a really nice job, particularly the whites and pearl greys.

Can't wait for the next one

Colin

MarquisMini · Feb 8, 2012

Alreday working on two more Grenadiers Colin,but i still have to finish my conversion on the Elite's NY infantryman,i converted to the Dillon's chasseur.

billyturnip · Feb 9, 2012

Another fine addition Daniel, I still haven't quite recovered from my foray into painting a white uniform, it's a lot harder than it looks.

Incidently I'm reading this at the moment,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Battl...1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328783328&sr=1-1-spell

I haven't got as far as Yorktown yet but not long to go.

Roger.

Tecumsea · Feb 9, 2012

Hi Daniel, superb work on these, I also like the 18th century, are these all coversions?

Keith

Edorta · Feb 9, 2012

Nice team Daniel. I like the face of this last one.

http://www.mininet.tv/egminiatures.html

MarquisMini · Feb 9, 2012

billyturnip said:
Another fine addition Daniel, I still haven't quite recovered from my foray into painting a white uniform, it's a lot harder than it looks.

Incidently I'm reading this at the moment,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Battl...1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328783328&sr=1-1-spell

I haven't got as far as Yorktown yet but not long to go.

Roger.

White is tricky to paint.
I am still trying to get better at it.
I can't wait to see any yorktown related figure from you,looking forward to it.
Cheers

MarquisMini · Feb 9, 2012

Edorta said:
Nice team Daniel. I like the face of this last one.

http://www.mininet.tv/egminiatures.html

gracias Eduardo,i am working on the Dillon's chasseur now,trying to finish it.
I am using the pics of yours you've sent me few months ago.

captnenglish · Feb 9, 2012

Very nice looking figure. Thank you for posting your mixtures.

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