WIP 40mm Bulletproof Min., Compagnies Franches-de-la-Marine, Pondicherry 1760

[MarquisMini]

Hello folks,
Another batch of minoatures i have order from Bulletproof.
These are the original figures, the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, they were present at the siege of Pondicherry along with Regiment Lally and it was the last engagement , after their defeat at the hands of the British.

 

[MarquisMini]

I have painted the base color of the coat with a mix of off with, english uniform and german grey from vallejo.
The fblue cuffs and vest is from scale 75 abyssal blue, added cantabric blue and some sky blue

 

[Nap]

Hi Daniel

Another cracking start ...the master of white is performing again ......

Cheers for sharing mixes

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Nap

 

[Wings5797]

A nice duo Daniel.
Looking forward to these painted up,
Cheers
Keith

 

[MarquisMini]

Hi Daniel

Another cracking start ...the master of white is performing again ......

Cheers for sharing mixes

Following

Nap

Thanks my friend

 

[MarquisMini]

A nice duo Daniel.
Looking forward to these painted up,
Cheers
Keith

Looks like my Redcoats friends wake up early on the othwr side of the pond haah.
Glad to see you here mate
Cheers

 

[MarquisMini]

Almost finished this chap.
Still lots of details to follow.

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[Oda]

These miniatures look extremely good even without any paint on.It is when you start performing your magic unto them that they transform into little gems.Well done Daniel.

Oda.

 

[MarquisMini]

These miniatures look extremely good even without any paint on.It is when you start performing your magic unto them that they transform into little gems.Well done Daniel.

Oda.

Thank you so much for your kind words my friend

 

[MarquisMini]

Working on the drum now, draw the lilies with german black/ brown, i will add the gold later

 

[MarquisMini]

I have primed these fusiliers with Army painter color primer skeleton bone since i run out of my usual primer.
I will paint most of the coats in grey/white typical of these French uniforms at the tine, they did changed to whitw in 1760's .
The compagnies wore grey/white, but idecided to have few in warm white, the troops that were stationed in the colonies and especially India, because of the warm weather were issue some local fabrics, Nankeen was very common , some other kept their coats since coats had a 3 year wear for the infantry.

 

[MarquisMini]

I have used the grey basecoat with a combimation of citadel battle grey and citadel celestra grey.
Gavevit a wash of army painter blue wash with a little mix of citadel agrax esrthshade.
Painted the natural leather belts and the "russian red leather" cartridge boxes with the anchor.

 

[MarquisMini]

I layed the blue base color for the facings using scale 75 Abyssal blue for the cuffs, for the vest and pants i've used Abyssal blue and a dab of vallejo prussian blue.
Finally , i jave finished the officer's coat and vest.

 

[marco55]

They are looking good.
Mark