Painting Russian Infantry

 I find the thought unlikely that anyone would like to use the same colours that I used for my Russians. I have found sources like Loki’s Great Ball, Napoleonics in Miniatures, JJs Wargames and McPhees Miniature Men invaluable for helping me with painting information (links below). That I thought you never know. Maybe just maybe, someone has hit rock bottom in Russian napoleonic infantry paint selection, comes across this site and thinks, I cannot look no further, this will do me. 

The paints I use are all Vallejo apart from the use of DarkStar paints “Pewter”. Dark Star do a really nice metallic paint and it’s available from SNM Stuff, https://www.snmstuff.co.uk/. I  use Pewter for the canteen thing on the backpack as it helps it sparkle a bit. The other note on this paint guide is that apart from the musket I use no other metallic paint. Instead I use Beige Brown then Ochre Yellow for the gold/brass fittings. The Ochre Yellow had a good pigment content and helps for the buttons, badges and  chinstrap to stand out. Maybe the most controversial part is the green for the uniform. I start off pretty dark green, the Luftwaffe green at this scale is not a big step up but starts to give some levelling up. The final green looks really bright on the palette, but it dries darker. It should used for top highlights and helps the green pop a little. 

French Line Horse Artillery

Two batteries of French Line Horse Artillery from Campaign Game Miniatures. Figures never need much cleaning up and CGM offer quite a few ranges that others don’t cater for in 15mm. These are in the later Bardin regulation uniform. The guns are also CGM and pretty good value at 2 for around €3.22 (at time of writing 15.01.21). 

French Light Infantry

 Just a couple of photos of my Campaign Miniatures French light infantry. These figures have a lot of interesting poses and came with very little flash. Also have nice solid bayonets, which is always a bonus.

Lithuanian Tartars

 Have just finished on my Boki Lithuanian Tartars. I really like the figures from Sho. They have great character and details. These figures need a little pinching in to get them on some Wargames bases comfortably (ankles and lance hand need squeezing in a bit depending on your base size). Their numbers mean that for most Wargames you probably don’t need that many figures, but I’m building for 1818 and anything is possible!! The lance Pennents are from Essex miniatures, they will sell on request the lances so you can drill and stick them on the end of cut down paperclip or brass rod, I use a 0.8mm drill bit and brass rod.

Here are the first batch of lancers. Difficult to determine the uniforms as they seemed to have a lot of variants.

Have now finished the second lot. I did these in a different colour scheme to give some variety.