WIP My First 40mm French Form Trident Designs (update 2)

[MarquisMini]

Great work Daniel, I love the work you´ve made with these minis.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

thanks for looking Eduardo

 

[MarquisMini]

I think they look great mate,

Thanks Taff!

 

[Don Johnson]

I agree - excellent progress on these figures. Are you going with black gaiters, or the summer white version? If black, use the same concept as you did with the whites - your "base" color will be a dark grey, with deepest shadows in black, and mid-range greys for highlights. Use the less-is-more approach, as you can always add highlights, but it is tougher to get darker. Our minds will interpret the greys as black - there's a marvelous French expression that translates into English as "fool the eye". That's what you're doing here - fooling us into "seeing" depth and shading and folds in the cloth and colors that aren't really there!

 

[MarquisMini]

I agree - excellent progress on these figures. Are you going with black gaiters, or the summer white version? If black, use the same concept as you did with the whites - your "base" color will be a dark grey, with deepest shadows in black, and mid-range greys for highlights. Use the less-is-more approach, as you can always add highlights, but it is tougher to get darker. Our minds will interpret the greys as black - there's a marvelous French expression that translates into English as "fool the eye". That's what you're doing here - fooling us into "seeing" depth and shading and folds in the cloth and colors that aren't really there!

Thanks don, yes, ia m going with the white gaiters for this regiment,so i have to give it a wash in a darker grey and go form there.
Finished the face, re-touched the hats and all is left to do is gaiters and turnbacks .
Regards