Epic Battles Napoleonic French

I have a prospective client interested in using Warlord Games' Black Powder Epic Battles figures to field armies for the Commands and Colors system.

Readers will know that he vast bulk of my painting involves traditional metal figures in 15/18mm and 25/28mm. I am so far way from this plastic figure world that I wasn't really sure what the scope of the job would be. I knew the figures were 10mm, but that was all I knew.

After the client and I failed to reach each other by phone a few times, I figured I would just buy a set of figures to see what I would be working with. It turns out that each casting is a strip of ten men. That changes the scope of the job!

Here are a couple of test bases of French infantry, one base in tunics and the other in greatcoats.

They really are small! Here is the greatcoats base with a quarter dollar.

We will see if the prospective client and I can come to an agreement on price now that I know I won't be painting thousands of individual figures, only hundreds of strips.

20mm War of 1812 British

 Jon Grossman sculpted these figures and hired me to paint them ats the 85th Light Infantry Regiment in 1814. These 44 figures were a breeze to paint. I've painted quite a few of Jon's sculpts by now, and they all look phenomenal.

Jon's instructions called for a light ink wash. I used heavily diluted "Sepia" wash from Vallejo, then picked out the highlights with the paint again. These should really pop on the table!