Hello folks,
New chap on my workbench.
This is a mounted continental officer from Front rank Figurines .
I converted to the French 1779 regulation coat for an officer of this Renown Regiment during the Franco-American siege of Yorktown.
The regiment was dressed innwhite coats with Crimson lapels, cuffs and yellow metal buttons.
I did minor modifications, shortened the lapels, added some putty to widen up a little, got rid of the turn down collar and added the stand up collar, and final.step i got rid of the shoulder band, added buttons (one extra per cuff) and 3 large buttons below the right lapel as per the regulations.

I have primed the figure with Automotive self etching primer, once dried out, i have decided to use the Army painter color primer, Skeleton bone.
I let it dry for at least 1 hour, then added the strong tone wash with a brush.
Later i lay the base color for the Crimson, which i have made my own base color with a mix of Howard Hues crimson, windsor &Newton Quinocridone crimson (acrylic) , vallejo sunset purple and vallejo flat red., none of the Crimson paints in the market made menhappy, so i created my own version of it lol.
Lapels done, base for the vest and pants are intermediate grey with some german grey.

Such detailed conversion work on this scale and a superb painting!Really running out of praises for your work mate.Seriously,do you ever sleep?

Oda.

The painting is superb. is there any way of thinning the reins?

Mike

Thank you very much Oda, great to have you on this Thread.
Ps: i do paint little by little when i get a chance, not easy between family and work, but i manage to paint some stuff in between

Hey Mike, thanks for passing by.
Not sure what you mean about the reins thou..are they too thick ?,
I find that most of the time, because of thencasting process , manufactures (or sculptors) made some pieces thicker so it withstand the casting.
Regards

I'm running out of nice things to say about this project Daniel, needless to say each new post is as good as the last, keep going, this is fantastic.

Thanks my friend, i am glad you like it.
Best regards

I do!!

The coat it's done, pretty happy with the result.
Next it will be the vest and pants..

This is going to be another outstanding paint job,looking forward to seeing the finished piece.
Wish I could work at this scale (40mm). Thank you for sharing the painting information.
Amazing work and talent......John.

Thanks mate

Thanks for your kind Comments John.
Best regards

Vest, pants and ruffle shirt done., hair it's done as well.
Next step it will be the face, sword and boots ...

Smart looking chap!Lovely and bursting with talent as ever.

Oda.

He is a real beauty Mate.
Your subtle change of white from jacket to vest has worked very well.
Good work Daniel.
Keith

just stunning

tony