Macedonian Companion cav 15mm last two finished

These are the last two of the four cav  for this week I'll hopefully get home early enough tonight to start the next four

Need to still do a bit more work on both of there boots

Oh and i still have to paint the grass near the foot of the horse but i will do all eleven at the same time

Alexander the great Xyston 15mm

well i spent far to long on this boy last night but i'm happy with the final look i've also finished a companion and nearly another and started the last. They are all completely different and take a bit longer.

The photos above show the  process I used for painting the cape

really when it comes down painting anything its about layering Start with the dark colour

and work your way up to the lighter, I find that unless the final colour is a dark colour it's best not to leave any black, the first colour down is your shadow so when you paint the next colur leave the areas that you want darker shadow I do at least 3 layers but with this figure i did 4 each time in this case using the same colour but adding more white to achieve the lighter colour, normally i'd use different colours. I've used games workshop  liche purple. the two different colours are because i took some photos at night and some outside, the final colour is somewhere in between the two 

still a couple of small things to do on this fella

Macedonian Companion cav 15mm xyston

Well  last night before i went to bed i did the horses for the companion Cav tonight i hope to get a bit more of the riders done so here's the horses what do you think, after looking a t the pics i might put the eyes in.

this is Alexanders horse hope he likes it.

as you can see there are only four cav in total in this bit but the riders are all

different from head to toe.

Aaron

 has asked me to detail how i paint the capes so I will try to do this in my next post

Macedonion Hyaspists 15mm xyston finished

Started these friday night and finished off the last bits today I've finished these 16 figures for this commission, now onto the companion cav.

here's a couple of pics of the Hyaspists

quite happy how these are going

How to paint 15mm Xyston Macedonions

Well the Guy this commission is for has asked me to post how i'm painting these guys and and what paints i'm using so here we go.

Undercoat the minature with flat black paint

All paints are either Citadel, games workshop or Vallejo

1. I start with the flesh base coat Citadel Tallarn flesh.

2. base coat dark prussian blue all areas to end up blue.

2. base coat khaki all linen areas

3. base coat either black red, Bubonic brown or reflective green on the waste belt depending on which final colour you are wanting.

4. base coat plumes medium sea grey

5. Now apply intense blue over the prussian blue make sure to cover nearly all the prussain blue the base caot is to make the second colour look brighter and instead of black showing through you get this nice blue.

6. highlight face with Elf flesh

7. coat the khaki with buff leaving only the egdes (where belts and shoulder pads meet)

8. highligh this area now with 50/50 buff and white mix use sparingly.

9 Now do a blue highlt using flat blue on raised areas or where the sun would glint off the helmet

10. Highlight for belt either blood red, golden yellow, medium olive. when you do this try to leave a small amount of the base coat in the middle of the belt,

11. highlt plumes with with leaving strands of the base coat to show through.

12. apply base coat to cross belt scalib and spear scrotched brown

13. now apply cathman brown to these areas. On the belt leave dark either side as you paint it.

on both the others make sure you still can sea some of the undercoat.

14. apply boltgun metal to the end of the spear.

15. apply shining gold to brim of helmet and greeves making sure you leave a small amount of black around the leather straps on the legs.

16.now paint those straps with calthan brown

Xyston 15mm commission

Well this time we have a small commission mix of  Macedonions greeks and spartans. the spartans are to be painted up as thebans. Xyston are a very nice figure to paint and if you're thinking 15mm ancients you can't go wrong with this company.

first things with the xyston figures is you need a really small drill bit and then drill out the hands they have spears that you can cut to length. but remember the spaears don't come with the figures you buy them separately.

So here we are with my test figure I've painted the base coat of skin and blue on most of the 16 Hypaspists.

How to paint 28mm french figures

 In this post I'm not going to go over how i paint faces i will leave that to go over in another post, The idea with this is to show you how easy it is to get a great finish on you figures.

The first step is to wash the figures to make sure that they are clean of any residue then undercoat in a flat black.

All paints are either Gw or Valleji

I start with the flesh first ( i will cover this later)

1.)then apply the dark Prussian Blue to the all areas needing blue don't leave any black areas other than edges eg. of coats belts...

2.) then apply medium sea grey to any area that will end up white

3. appy intense blue  leaving samll amounts of bard blue to show through.

4.) apply flat blue as the second highlight use sparingly on raised areas only

5.) apply white over the grey leaving small amouts of the grey to show through. ( there are heaps of pictures on the web that you can use to see how pants are painted for referenc as well)

6.)apply black red to all areas that will end up red

7.) paint blood red leaving small amounts of back red to show through i repeat the red when dry on small areas this brightens these areas of red a bit more.

8.) apply shinig gold to the gun and buckles

9.) apply scorched brown to gun hair and pack

10 .)apply bolt gun silver to gun barrel

11.) apply calthan brown to hear and gun

12.)apply british uniform brown to pack

13.)apply orchar yellow highlight to hair

14.) sometimes apply a third highlight of pastle blue  around pockest

15.) apply burnished gold  as a highlight to the shining gold on the gun
16 Paint shade areas on black with german grey

the last two photos of the drummer you'll see he's not quite finished yet but i like him.

Any questions just ask and i'll try to let you know

link to Eureka minature in US

http://www.eurekaminusa.com/