All of zem.
I’ve been procrastinating on starting my 15mm 95th Rifles for Lasalle (although I did clean up all 50 casts, and mount them on craft sticks in preparation for priming!) by finishing up my 28mm French legere for Song of Drums and Shakos/Sharp Practice II. I also painted a couple of resin barrels, as you might
have gathered from the subtle title of this post.
A basic force in SD&S is a dozen figures, and, conveniently, it seems like skirmishers/light troops in Sharp II are assembled in groups of six.
Soon I will have to start purchasing mass quantities of 28mm figures for my Sharp Practice line infantry. I may go the plastics route, Then again, I REALLY hate assembling plastic figures, and this is a sort of slow going luxury project for me, so maybe I’ll go ahead and bite the (expensive) lead bullet.
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- All of zem.
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- This will do as a force for Song of Drums and Shakos. Perry French light infantry painted up as the “Incomparable” 9th.
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- More fun than a barrel of light infantry!
ArkieGamer 
Comments
Very nicely painted little fellas you have there! I understand you quandary with plastic versus metal miniatures, I’m leaning more and more towards metal, it’s so much easier to get to the fun of painting them!
Yes! I made the mistake of buying some Warlord 28mm British Infantry, and it was an horrifying experience trying to put them together. This seals it. Metal all the way.
28mm plastic WWII Infantry, I should say. Very fiddly.
Nice job.
Thanks!
Top notch painting and basing as usual. I think the contrasts really make these guys pop and pronounce the rich uniform detail even more. I am impressed you could get yourself to prepare 50 without proceeding to painting. I struggle with this, but I can see the appeal to prime the whoel lot and not have to worry about preping for some time.
Yes, it’s only my hatred of prep and priming that leads me to do entire units! I do have an airbrush, which I use to do the priming-I really like the control, and not having to deal with wind and humidity, compared to a can of spray paint.
What do you prime with? I got me some lacquer based primer which should provide a very sturdy basis for styrene and metal. I tried to shoot some AK primer through my airbrush but ended up with a clogged brush. Hand painting works better, but I will only use it for PVC as it is not as sturdy as the other stuff. Maybe you can recommend some other products?
I’ve been using the Vallejo airbrush primers. They’re not too expensive, and provide an excellent painting surface. These primers are thinned, but still require a bit more air pressure than one might think.
I would say that the Vallejo primers are fairly useless for any sort of protective qualities. You’ll need a top coat of varnish on the figures to provide that.
That is good to know. I almost thought my bottle of Ak acrylic based primer is a bad batch. It is really easy to scracth it off, but then with a gloss coat and matte it should be alright. I think the thicker the layer of primer the more durable it is, but not comparison to solvent based solutions. Sadly those would make the Bones minis sticky.
From what you just described, I bet the Vallejo stuff is quite similar to AK.
It is quite possible that AK uses Vallejo as a supplier, that is it would be fairly similar or even the same stuff. I read something on the net proposing this but I am not sure if it is indeed the case. The Ak stuff can be sanded to an extend, so that seems to be a difference.
Oh, and thank you for the compliment!
Nice paint job arkiegamer,
Thank you, sir!