Hey all

The latest piece I'm working on. I have the two Civil War pieces from H&V on deck and as Zeno is doing the Union fig, I figured I'd go North v South and take on the Confederate fig first. Picked up this guy at the IPMS Ajax show from Bent Bristle... Thanx Alex and Anthony

The box art depicts an Infantry officer but I decided to go for an early war Cavalry Lieutenant... I like the yellow trim That being said, painting this scheme, I'm not doing myself any favours.... yellow, pain.... even worse, the evil "hate child" of two of the most merciless colours (black and white) GREY
I've taken a shot at two different greys... a warm grey for the coat and a cool grey for the cape. A third, bluegrey was thrown into the mix on the trousers.

The Cool Grey is Medium Grey + English Uniform + Blue Grey. The Warm Grey is a mix of Medium Grey + English Uniform. The Cadet Grey is straight Blue Grey.
These are the greys, basecoated...

The greys done, a few tune-ups notwithstanding. The yellow is strictly based. I will adjust the yellows on the coat, cape and sash so as to have different shades of yellow on the two garments and the sash having some gold running through it. The base yellow is Flat Yellow with a touch of Violet (thanx Daniel and Roger)

The head basically done...

The head, body and cape tacked together.... this is where we're at so far.

As always, comments, critiques, hints and suggestions are welcome and encouraged

Thanx for dropping in

Colin

Looks good so far Colin. As luck would have it, I just started cleaning up my copy, which I picked up in Chicago. How was your copy? Mine had some pretty serious seams to remove and a rather large air bubble right where the collar is. I sorted it out all right though so no worries. I was just curious because the iron brigade figure was almost flawless. Anyway, good luck the rest of the way.

Good work so far.

Marc

Colin, it looks like a nice crisp sculpt, great facial features and you seem to have brought them out well with the painting. It will be following with interest how you get on with the greys.

regards Zane

Great start Colin.
I really like your work on the face.That eyes left touch adds a huge amount character to the whole figure.
Well done Mate,
All the very best,
Keith

I am liking your flesh and face, as well as your choices of greys, or should I say grays for this subject?

Colin

Thanx Glenn, Marc, Zane and Keith. I found both this and the IB sculpt to be excellent. Small casting blocks, barely a scrape to remove lines. A tiny ridge across the fingers of the sword hand was all.
Thanks Colin, I tried to get rid of the "doll face" by shading to narrow the cheeks and deepen the eyes. I'm sorry,my spelling is atrot... atros... atrox... ummm... really not good

Thanks for looking in

Colin

I love this figure and your colour choices Colin. Very original to go for yellow.

My version was a flawless cast as well. Just minor seams and very small casting blocks as well.
I have assembled and primed it and hope to be starting it soon.
One thing I would advise anyone building this figure is to make sure the sabre hilt can be fitted after painting. It fits in a slot between the clothes, but if this is not sligthly widened, it will not fit.

Looking forward to your progress and base Colin.

Cheers
Adrian

Coming along nicely Colin.

cheers

Looking good so far. I am working on a Reb myself. I have not tried a Scale 75 figure yet so thanks for the feedback.

Bob

I agree, he is coming out rather nicely. Keep it up and this guy will have loads of character !

Joe

Adrian, Pedro, Bob and Joe thanx for the kind words of encouragement.
Adrian, you're dead on about the fit of the scabbard. When doing the dry fitting of the parts,the slot you are referring to had to be massaged just a touch. More just to straighten the edges for the scabbard to sit comfortably in the slot. Other than that tiny bit of work, the rest of the pieces nearly snapped together. In the last pics only the head has some blu-tak holding it, the other parts are resting in place.

Great sculpt!!!

Colin

Looking good Colin!

Looking very good and will follow closely!
Cheers bro!
Zeno

Hi Colin!

I have just stopped by this new work of yours. Nice gray tones, very accurate I think!
Good luck with this figure. I'm sure it'll pretty nice

Regards
Pedro

Thanx for the words of encouragement Pedro and Zeno.
Gray is an absolute bitch to work with... more fickle than both black and white. I think by modifying the two shades I used by adding English Uniform and Blue Gray, that made it a little more forgiving and gave them more distinct tones.

Tonight I finished the yellows and did the sleeve and kepi braiding... I'll post pictures tomorrow.

Cheers

Colin

Nice work on this guy, Colin. I like the variations in the grays, adds some more visual interest to the figure. The shading on the face is also really well done. I look forward to your next update!

Thanx Bailey,
A compliment on face painting from you is a great compliment indeed

Next installment coming up shortly... later tonight in fact

Colin

Great, waiying for your Imperial guard drummer!

Quick update...
Yellows done. Lieutenant braid (single line knot) is done with Goldbrown as the base, highlighted by adding Pale Sand, very watered down gold (Sargent acrylic) and finally a couple of passes of Sepia ink.

Head, hands and cape are still only blue-tak'd on for the pics.

Opinions on the gold braid are welcome as I'm still not confident with it

Cheers

Colin