Stepping past the Dragoons, I am finally tackling the Prussian heavy cavalry. First up is Regiment No.2 the Prince of Prussia Curassiers. I opted to start with them as the Yellow and Red would make a nice contrast at this scale. I made the error of using a white primer on the riders which significantly increases the work load to paint them. With sold black tricornes, boots and breastplates, it takes a lot of time to go back and add black. Also it is a little tedious after tackling the horses. For the next batch of cavalry I am going to try a black undercoat. They will have to wait until the other Curassiers are finished however as I did 2 more regiments of Prussians and 4 regiments of Austrians in white. (sigh.)
Nice work! Are your bases 60x30mm?
ReplyDeleteNice work. I use a specialist lead primer that is brown .... the worst of all worlds, except for horses of course :-)
Delete(Hammerite Special metals Primer - you can clean up brushes with water!)
I go over the brown primer with a black air-brushable primer from Vallejo, which goes on very well as it is so thin.
Yes, they are the same 30x60mm bases I used for my 18mm Russian Cavalry. (In fact the all of my 10mm regiments occupy the same footprint as the 18mm Regiments) I just found I like the look of the massed formations in 10mm for doing this project. That, and you already have the Austrians and Prussians covered in 18mm.
DeleteThanks for the advice Norm. For the 10mm Old Glory cavalry I have been using Army Painter tinted primers for the horses (mostly leather brown and skeleton bone) , followed by Vallejo acrylic ink, followed up with a drybrush of the base color. I had several days in a hotel a few weeks ago for work, so I used that time to go over all the tackle with black paint.
DeleteFine Prussian cuirassiers, Jake! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dean, and Merry Christmas to you!
DeleteNice looking unit I definately need to consider the double ranks approach it gives a nice block effect. Nice 🙂
ReplyDeleteThanks. I struggled with how I was going to set up these units. In the end I determined that I wanted to focus on achieving mass, so I went with the double ranks for the cav and triple for the infantry. It is more time consuming, but the end result gives me the look I was going for.
DeleteA fine looking regiment! If nothing else, the white primer keeps the yellow nice and bright!
ReplyDeleteThat was part of the inspiration for the white primer. Even with a black primer I always go over all the color portions with white first.
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