With some distractions I was still able to get in painting time and have tonight finished the 5th major formation (roughly a division size each one) for the Battle of Bull Run, 1861.
This time round it is the Army of the Shenandoah under J. E. Johnston.
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| the painting process top -bare metal mid -black base coat bottom -'wet' brush of upper surfaces |
missing in these images, again due to my camera being unable to focus properly on the surfaces of the models, is the 'ink' stage, where a layer of brown ink was put over everything
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| top -main color layer mid -flesh tones and mid tones bottom -final highlights and special 'red' parts |
This time around I also did a series of photos of the horses, command, and artillery section in the different stages:
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| after 'wet-brush' and before inks, came the horses under coatings |
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| here the ink is still only on the horses you can see the ink layer on the blue coated zouaves in the front left of the image |
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| wet artillery guns |
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| everything assembled prior to the matte coating stage |
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| final stage before flocking |
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| this time I did a few more photos of the minis just on the bases |
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| before the flocking stage |
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| then with the new mobile 'label' system in place |
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| finally a comparison shot with the flocking drying |
There it is dear readers, a 20+ year process coming to the end of the first stage.
Tomorrow (Sunday) I will do some more photos of the whole of the Confederate forces, then possibly some 'in situ' photos with both Union and Confederates to show off the 'grey and blue' units in each force.
Watch for those photos in the coming week.
For now it is on to the buildings that I have from Sarissa along with some supply markers and some extra 'casualty' markers to give away to a great game friend who helped make this possible.
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