Completed Tirailleur Senegalese

[Briggsy]

Sorry I didn’t clarify .....I meant here ...View attachment 488860

Hope this helps

Nap

OK will look at it but I'm duty Grandad for the next day and a half, mmm loads of fun. Still I'm unlikely to get another grandchild so best make the most of this one.

Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

OK will look at it but I'm duty Grandad for the next day and a half, mmm loads of fun. Still I'm unlikely to get another grandchild so best make the most of this one.

Cheers Simon

Have fun with the little lady ...grandad duty ...always good

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Have fun with the little lady ...grandad duty ...always good

Nap

Yeah, always good, just bought her a bike and cycle helmet, so of course she's curled up on the sofa watching something on the kindle!

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Not a great deal of progress, a bit of extra work on the face and some more uniform blue, also started properly on his boots and black gaiters.

Cheers Simon

 

[MalcC]

Doing my best to catch up.
wow, you've made a lot of progress. Very nice work on the sculpting.
Good to see the paint being applied.

Malc

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

Now your getting on with this , coming together ..look forward to seeing more

Get painting once you’ve found all your paints in the young lady’s toys

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[MarquisMini]

Finally some color on this chap!.
Can't wait for more progress pics .
Cheers!

 

[marco55]

Is he WWI era or pre-WWI?
Mark

 

[Briggsy]

Gentlemen, thank you very much, apparently I need to get the car valeted tomorrow but then I can paint to.my hearts content, so should be posting more progress tomorrow. Though I do have other projects on the go but I'm keen to see this fella through, providing I have all.my paints to hand!

Mark, I usually use the start of WWI as cut off for subject matter so I'm thinking this fella dates around 1900(ish). I don't have a great deal of reference material for non British Army subjects and so I have huge collections of illustrations on Pintrest, the down side is this is just visual without the supporting text that comes with better sourced reference. If I've made erroneous suppositions please let me know, I probably won't correct this one but will look to doing something more accurate at a later date.

Cheers Simon

 

[marco55]

They started changing their uniform, in the late 1890's. Before then their pants were pretty baggy and they either went barefoot or wore sandals. They were a lot less "uniform" https://www.warflag.com/shadow/uniforms/senguniform.htm

Mark

 

[Briggsy]

Thanks for that Mark, I'll have a good look through the reference. I based this on two main pictures, one of another companies figure that I wanted to paint.

Then another illustration I found on Pintrest.

I kind of cherry picked what I wanted to have. I also reckon that as the Tirailleur Senegalese were recruited across sub saharan Africa there would be many variations probably in the same battalion, so I certainly can't claim he is correct but correct enough will do for me.

Cheers Simon

 

[David Spencer]

The tones on this look great. Given that this is often the hardest part to reproduce well in a photo, they must be even better in reality.

 

[MarquisMini]

Thanks for that Mark, I'll have a good look through the reference. I based this on two main pictures, one of another companies figure that I wanted to paint.

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Then another illustration I found on Pintrest.

View attachment 489008

I kind of cherry picked what I wanted to have. I also reckon that as the Tirailleur Senegalese were recruited across sub saharan Africa there would be many variations probably in the same battalion, so I certainly can't claim he is correct but correct enough will do for me.

Cheers Simon

I believe that awesome brand JMD figures from France that is no longer in business had one figure like the one in the first picture.
That was one of my favorite Miniature Makers.

 

[Briggsy]

The tones on this look great. Given that this is often the hardest part to reproduce well in a photo, they must be even better in reality.

Still trying to get a decent coverage of the blue, Scalecolor 75 Deep Blue, before I can get any highlighting and shade in there. With the photography I'm finding low light gives a better image quality that all the bright lights which wash everything out.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

I believe that awesome brand JMD figures from France that is no longer in business had one figure like the one in the first picture.
That was one of my favorite Miniature Makers.

Yes so I understand, still if I can't have the actual figure at least I can make my own version. It's a shame so firms go out of business but that's progress and the nature of the game I guess. Even if I could have every figure I like I'd never have time to do them all, oh well.

Cheers Simon

 

[marco55]

I have a painted version of the JMD that I bought off Ebay.
Mark

 

[Briggsy]

Not been able to access the site for most of the day, so.i painted instead.

The gaiters had highlights of Scalecolor Black with small amounts of Vallejo Sunny Skin Tone, the the same unaltered black used to blend the edgs of the highlights.

The trousers have a base coat of Scalecolor Deep Blue, the shade is added by glazing in small amounts of Scalecolor Black. I then worked dark to light using Scalecolor Navy Blue then Navy Blue plus Scalecolor Cantabric Blue. I will probably revisit to get cleaner highlights once what is already there is fully dry.

I made a start blocking in the base colours for the bayonet scabbard, haversack and waist sash.

Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

The site was down as you said , maintenance/background concerns , all sorted now ....you certainly made great use of the day ...mine was spent being dragged around shops , in and out the glorious British weather !

This is looking good , with the blues working well , the sash once completed will bring a flash of colour

Look forward to seeing more

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Cheers Kev, I was supposed to take the car to the local 'hand car wash' for a valet, but no way was I sitting around outside for half an hour in the rain we had today. Guess that's my task tomorrow, groan. Still I'll get some bench time in, that's for certain.

Cheers Simon

 

[lpa53]

Would be nice if it was magic, just a wave of the wand and perfection. Then again where would the fun be in that!

Cheers Simon

Seeing the 3D printing taking over from hand sculpting, I wonder if some day the 3D print will include color. Then the fun will really be gone.