Hello fellow modelers. I am looking for a good link for paint 54mm Napoleonic gold braids and saddle work. Many Thanks in advance

What are you looking for, beside alot of patience, holding your breath and put the brush on the braid with (in my case) a mix of gold and burnt umber.

Marc

Gold braid is actually pretty easy if you're painting in acrylics.

I use the following:

Base, Flat dark earth or a Medium brown

Base + Medium Skin Tone,

Add Sunny Skin Tone to the above,

Add Golden Yellow

Use Basic Skin tone for the final highlight.

Shadows: Add German Camo brown to the base.

Mike

Not sure about a link to the saddle. I did some WIP's a while back on on a mounted Nappy

thanks . I didn't think about the skin tone. I'll have to try tgat

Danilo Cartacci has an excellent SBS on painting gold braid for Napoleonic figures in his book, Painting Miniatures, which doesn't use metallic but looks very realistic.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to paint miniature figures and busts.

That book is never far from my bench! I reference it all of the time.

This book is one of my figure painting Bibles. An absolute must have.

http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/dragoon-general-louis-michel-letort.45244/

in the above link you can find my answer to yuor question, enjoy

Anyone know where I can get the book, its £45 on Amazon?
TERRY

Hi Terry,
Amazon Germany sells this book for 22,95 EUR. You also can get it as Kindle Version (10,99 EUR for the englisch version)
Also there is a lot of sellers on ebay.

Christian

Slightly better here at £25.99

http://www.bookworldws.co.uk/painting-miniatures-p-2917.html

Guys remarkable instant feed back, I am onto it now.
Cheers
TERRY

Thanks Nap, I must say as a newcomer to PF since August 2016, the contacts and assistance has been amazing, it has added an extra enjoyable dimension to the hobby.
Give yourselves a pat on the back.
TERRY

Thank you everyone for your input. Here's where I've gotten so far. Pretty satisfied

Well done, you've cracked it to fine effect

Alan

Thanks again guys! Here's my progress so far.

Your progress is looking very, very good so far! I still follow this thread.

Christian

Yes the braiding looks great on all sections of the figure, I am sure you are pleased with it, I find that sometimes when I paint metallics that they dont look good until you add other colours around them and this tends to enhance their appearance and the effect that you have obtained here is very nice indeed.
TERRY