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I saw a painting I think was one of Vasily Vereshchagin's, one of a "Buhkara soldier". Given how well you've done these, that one would make another wonderful figure. https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/vasily-vereshchagin/bukhara-soldiers-sarbaz-1873.jpg!Large.jpg

This piece is wonderful. I just searched for Vasily Vereshchagin's work on the web and it is marvelous, with many subjects that would lend themselves to great miniatures.

Thanks for the reply. I have such trouble with eyes, especially now that my own are getting older, that I was thinking of hiding the them a bit by painting cast shadows on figures that have deep-brimmed head coverings. But I always thought that would be regarded as an unacceptable practice.

Question: Did you paint a cast shadow over the Dragoon's eyes or is that just the natural lighting?

Looks great! Love the pose and love the horse's coloring. And I just visited the Tommy's War site and really like their line.

Of them all, I prefer C.

Very nice work! I especially like the brown leather tops of the boots and the subdued gold treatment on the headgear.

I tried several programs but ended up liking PowerPoint best. The net go round I'll definitely use the Sharpie.

The photo on the label is a neat idea. By layer, am I correct in assuming you mean a digital layer? After realizing I had several packs of glossy photo paper that had been packaged with ink cartridges, I made the label below. It's for an ancient Stadden figure I painted decades ago that...

Wow, those labels you made were great. Since I'm just getting back into the hobby and not even sure I can still paint, I'll stick to something simple for now!

What color background do you use? In the past I used parchment paper. I like the look of a black background but the lighter lettering isn't sharp when using normal paper. Does using photo-quality paper help that. Also do you use matte photo paper? ... and what thickness?

I did a search here but came up empty. What home-made name plates for bases do people use? Long ago (I'm just now getting back into the hobby) I used custom metal plates but that got expensive. Then I used parchment card stock and printed my own. I liked that but am having a hard tome...

Wonderful work! Does War & Peaces have a website yet?

Black is so hard for me to get right and this does is so well. What's your palette for black?

Looks great! What's your technique for the dirt and dust on the cape?

If it's digital, does that mean someone could make a 3D print of it?

Scratch-built figure by wife, Julie.

Scratch-built figure by wife, Julie.

I'm trying to get back to [painting and sure hope my old eyes can handle 54s, as they're still may favorite. And I love this Troop54 range.

Vignette by wife Julie.