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[valleyboy]

you certainly have a way of making figures "pop"with your painting. Very nice

[vexillia]

What are you using for Union Blue?

Is this a loaded question?

Whatever, I haven't started them yet. Soon. I will probably start with a Dark Prussian blue and see where that takes me.

Any tips?

[vexillia]

you certainly have a way of making figures "pop"with your painting. Very nice

Thanks. It's all in the layers. It gives great depth of colour even over black.

[grizzlymc]

Ask the slippery Count, he has the blues by the short and curlies.

[vexillia]

What are you using for Union Blue?

Started a command stand this morning. Current recipe:

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Undercoat	Any			Black
Base		Vallejo 70.899		Dark Prussian Blue
Highlight	Vallejo 70.962 		Flat Blue with touch of the above.
Wash		Vallejo 70.899		Dark Prussian Blue (very dilute) with some black.
Repeat highlight and wash if necessary.

Only problem is that, as I've only done three figures, I wouldn't call this a consistent recipe. The officer's a different shade to the standard bearers as I did him first. It'll get better as I do more.

Hope this helps. and do remember it's a recipe for 15 mm.

[vexillia]

Change to the blue recipe after post varnishing repaint:

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Manufacturer		Colour
--			--
Any			Black
Vallejo 70.899		Dark Prussian Blue
Vallejo 70.965	  	Prussian Blue
Vallejo 70.962 		Flat Blue

Recipe
--
Undercoat		Black
Base			Dark Prussian Blue
Highlight		Flat Blue & Prussian Blue (4:1)
Wash*			Dark Prussian Blue (very dilute) with some black.

Notes
--
Add above average amounts of talc (blues are very shiny, even after varnishing).
* Only use wash if necessary.

This is close to settled now.

[vexillia]

Two new ACW blog posts:


https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/11/15- ... rrior.html


https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/11/15- ... rrior.html

First post include lots of free flags like this:


One of the gents mentioned in the second post is a member here.

[Essex Boy]

Very nice, Martin......as always.

I'm chuffed that you've found a use for, or distributed, the stuff we swapped. There's nothing worse than toy soldiers boxed up, forgotten and unused.

Iain

[vexillia]

As I said in the second post the swap gave me hours of fun sorting out a big box of toys. I'm now working on the Peter Pig generals and will be posting photos once they are finished. It may be a while as some of the figures are swines to paint.

Thanks once again.

[Penda]

Those have turned out really well for little chaps!