painting war game figures

[witmann]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please may i ask for some guidance regarding painting war game figures using oil paints.

I am a 54mm figure painter normally, but my wife purchased a set of the Perry brothers 28mm heavy French cavalry Napoleonic era.
The figures are devine and extremely well cast. I have two concerns, a the scale and the techniques required to paint in this scale, B can i use the same techniques using oils for 54mm as for the 28mm?


Please if anybody knows of how to paint 28mm with oils please could they reply to this request. I would like to be able to paint figures in this scale with oils as they are my prefered medium.

Thank you

Lee

 

[Einion]

Sure you can paint 28mm figs with oils if you're proficient - if you think about a section of a miniature at the smaller scale, it's just like painting a part/detail on a larger-scale figure.

Wargaming figures for use in gaming are often/usually painted pretty basically, since unit colours might be all that's necessary to be able to recognise at a distance. Although as you can see from the submissions on CMON you can go completely the other way and treat each one as miniature artworks (e.g. here, here and here)!

Einion