Piles of Old Lead

Well, Easter came and went. The weather was better than expected which meant I got dragged into the garden :/, and we had family visiting which also meant I had less time to myself than I would have liked.

My target had been to get the base coating done by Good Friday, and this was achieved, even though I had to do it all with a brush (due to the bad weather) instead of spraying which was my original intention.

Over the Easter weekend I managed to find time to apply the base colours to all the trousers, using 2 combinations of white/grey and canvas for some variety. I have started the shading process on about 8 of the figures so far.

I also got the base coat of the jacket applied to about half the figures. I tried using the new Foundry Napoleonic British Red triad for this. The shade colour I found to be too light, not leaving enough contrast when midtone and highlights were applied. I think this set would work very well on a larger scale figure, but on 25mm the changes in tone get lost at any kind of distance.

To remedy this I resorted to my old favourite Cote d'Arms Red Brown. This is the colour I use as a base for my flesh and have found it works well for red too. I am using the Napoleonic Red over this in conjunction with Foundry Scarlet shades, and I am getting a nice result.

Plan for this weekend is to get the basecoating completed on the jackets and also complete all the trousers.

Once this stage is done I'll post a few photo's of my progress.