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Showing posts with label Iron Duke Miniatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iron Duke Miniatures. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Friday, 24 July 2015
Not my Painting But Too Lovely Not To See!!
Colonel Mike Snook, author of some very fine Military History books posted on his Blog that he would be happy for the painted images of his beautifully sculpted Iron Duke Miniatures, Indian Mutiny range sold by Empress Miniatures to be ripped and placed into cyberspace.
The range is so wonderfully researched by Mike and finely sculpted by Paul Hicks that it would be very rude of me not to include some images from his website- note that i have not had a hand in painting these lovely mini's.
The range is so wonderfully researched by Mike and finely sculpted by Paul Hicks that it would be very rude of me not to include some images from his website- note that i have not had a hand in painting these lovely mini's.
Thursday, 16 July 2015
New Wargames Standard, So Far, Not So Good!
Hi,
In one of my previous posts I outlined my ideas about painting up the beautifully sculpted and designed Iron Duke mini's to a wargames standard. Well, I decided to go one better and try a new style of painting, one that would be more suitable for 15mm painting than that of 28mm but it has the advantage that the mini's stand out more on the wargames table as they are usually viewed from arms length at least. So, how is this achievable?
Quite simple really, when painting 15mm mini's it is important to have bigger jumps in the highlighting process. Larger steps between hues. It makes the 15mm mini's look right if you're with me? Well, I've got to admit that, even though these figures are in the early stages of painting I'm quite disappointed in the overall look of the mini's ie that the stages are more staggered than they would normally be. I'll have to see if this improves later as more detail; I certainly hope that it does!! The other draw back to painting in this style is that it hasn't really saved me that much time as I'm not used to painting 28's in this manner so it's been a learning process. Personally, I think that I could be a lot more free with the brush and not worry too much about where a particular brushstroke lands. I know that this sounds counter intuitive but it's something that great emphasis is put on in Art Schools (unless you're the graphics type, which I'm not).
OK, time to bare all, let me know what you think?
I should add that this is not how I normally paint and will not be how I paint my other projects nor indeed anyone else's mini's!!
Bye for now.
In one of my previous posts I outlined my ideas about painting up the beautifully sculpted and designed Iron Duke mini's to a wargames standard. Well, I decided to go one better and try a new style of painting, one that would be more suitable for 15mm painting than that of 28mm but it has the advantage that the mini's stand out more on the wargames table as they are usually viewed from arms length at least. So, how is this achievable?
Quite simple really, when painting 15mm mini's it is important to have bigger jumps in the highlighting process. Larger steps between hues. It makes the 15mm mini's look right if you're with me? Well, I've got to admit that, even though these figures are in the early stages of painting I'm quite disappointed in the overall look of the mini's ie that the stages are more staggered than they would normally be. I'll have to see if this improves later as more detail; I certainly hope that it does!! The other draw back to painting in this style is that it hasn't really saved me that much time as I'm not used to painting 28's in this manner so it's been a learning process. Personally, I think that I could be a lot more free with the brush and not worry too much about where a particular brushstroke lands. I know that this sounds counter intuitive but it's something that great emphasis is put on in Art Schools (unless you're the graphics type, which I'm not).
OK, time to bare all, let me know what you think?
I should add that this is not how I normally paint and will not be how I paint my other projects nor indeed anyone else's mini's!!
Bye for now.
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
A Painting Mutiny! A Dilemma!
Hi,
I'm now in possession of all of the Iron Duke Indian Mutiny Miniatures (sold by Empress Miniatures) and I find myself in a bit of a dilemma. I want to get them painted and on the table top as soon as possible and as I've been carefully and methodically painting up my Sudan and NWF collections it leaves me with little time to paint anything else for myself.
Here are just a few of the miniatures in question:
I was thinking of going for a Wargames Standard on the Indian Mutiny troops in order to get them done as I already have well over 100 mini's to paint and with more releases just around the corner I'm going to be hard pressed to find the time to paint them.
The question on my min is really, do I 'Speed Paint' them (ie Wargames Standard) or do I go for my normal method of painting up the mini's and give them the paint job they deserve? I once painted up a 2500 point Justinian Byzantine WAB army in three weeks so I know I'm capable of painting quite quickly.
I was wondering what you guys and gals thought? Do I go for it or not? I'd love to hear what you all think so please drop me a line or leave a comment :>)
Here's a pic of some examples of what I can do when speed painting:
Bye for now.
I'm now in possession of all of the Iron Duke Indian Mutiny Miniatures (sold by Empress Miniatures) and I find myself in a bit of a dilemma. I want to get them painted and on the table top as soon as possible and as I've been carefully and methodically painting up my Sudan and NWF collections it leaves me with little time to paint anything else for myself.
Here are just a few of the miniatures in question:
I was thinking of going for a Wargames Standard on the Indian Mutiny troops in order to get them done as I already have well over 100 mini's to paint and with more releases just around the corner I'm going to be hard pressed to find the time to paint them.
The question on my min is really, do I 'Speed Paint' them (ie Wargames Standard) or do I go for my normal method of painting up the mini's and give them the paint job they deserve? I once painted up a 2500 point Justinian Byzantine WAB army in three weeks so I know I'm capable of painting quite quickly.
I was wondering what you guys and gals thought? Do I go for it or not? I'd love to hear what you all think so please drop me a line or leave a comment :>)
Here's a pic of some examples of what I can do when speed painting:
Bye for now.
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Friday, 1 May 2015
Indian Mutiny Additions
So, when visiting Salute I put in an order for all of the packs of Iron Duke Miniatures from their Indian Mutiny range. The sculpts are just so gorgeous! The first packs are dynamically posed in attacking mode, according to the drill of the time and have a definite aggressive appearance that is very appealing. I have wanted to game the Indian Mutiny, also know in India as the First War of Liberation, for many a year but for some reason I have held back on the project. I'm not sure why as there are great ranges from Wargames Foundry and Mutineer Miniatures out there already.
The latest up and coming soon additions to the Iron Duke Miniatures range will be a set of 'Generic Infantry Officers', 'Generic Second Ensigns', Indian Drivers for Water Carts and Bullock Drawn Artilliery as well as the Horse Artillery which are sculpted at a gallop. I'm so excited about this range; it has been expertly crafted by Paul Hicks, who incidentally has his own company, Mutton Chop, which provides some WWI sculpts just to mention one range. With the expert help of the author of Go Stong into the Desert, Mike Snook, published as many of you will know by Perry Miniatures the Iron Duke range promises to be the most coherent and up to date range based on primary sources out there.
Here are a few pics of what we can expect to see in the not too distant future:
The latest up and coming soon additions to the Iron Duke Miniatures range will be a set of 'Generic Infantry Officers', 'Generic Second Ensigns', Indian Drivers for Water Carts and Bullock Drawn Artilliery as well as the Horse Artillery which are sculpted at a gallop. I'm so excited about this range; it has been expertly crafted by Paul Hicks, who incidentally has his own company, Mutton Chop, which provides some WWI sculpts just to mention one range. With the expert help of the author of Go Stong into the Desert, Mike Snook, published as many of you will know by Perry Miniatures the Iron Duke range promises to be the most coherent and up to date range based on primary sources out there.
Here are a few pics of what we can expect to see in the not too distant future:
'Generic' British Ensigns (Front)
'Generic' British Ensigns (Back)
'Generic' British Officers
Indian Mule Drivers
Horse Artillery Horses At the Gallop
I've got more conversions of the Perry Plastic HYW English Archer conversions that I have been working on (see my La Journee Blog HERE and HERE for details on these), but I'm going all out to try to fit in a regiment for the mutiny if I can find the time. They will certainly be complete within a week though I may have to order another pack to get the right feel to the regiment which could add a few days, though not many as Empress Miniatures who retail for Iron Duke Miniatures are usually very efficient in processing orders.
Bye for now.
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