ITLSU 1914 Third Echelon disembarks

[paulr]

I packed up the Germans ready drop off with Pierre the Shy on Saturday, he will be basing these figures

Got the British batch under coated

[paulr]

I grabbed some pictures of examples of the Germans before I took them off the painting rods

[Techno]

Lovely work, again, Paul !

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

They look really good.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful Paul

[pierre the shy]

Final dry brush and figure bases painted

Woho - they look rather good Paul 

British batch prepared, mainly Highlanders

You found some tartan paint then? 

[Leman]

I do like the look of those greatcoated officers - must get some for my army.

[paulr]

British batch prepared, mainly Highlanders

You found some tartan paint then? 

I'm going to experiment a bit, which tartan did you want again?

Plan B is leather covers for the kilts

[Womble67]

Now i must say they are extremely nice Paul

Take care

Andy

[Terry37]

Very nice. Love the color for the overcoats. please tell me what you used for them?

Thanks,

Terry

[paulr]

The Germans are base coated Vallejo 70.920 German Uniform
Dry brushed with one of 972 Light Green Blue, 905 Blue Grey Pale, 991 Dark Sea Grey
Washed with dilute Tamiya X-19 Smoke
A final light dry brush with 70986 Deck Tan

[paulr]

British base coated

[pierre the shy]

Second German Infantry Regiment collected off Paul....Tonight I painted and cut out 54 bases and made up labels for the regiment.....

Tomorrow start basing up figures......progress     

[Leman]

Very impressive progress.

[pierre the shy]

Based up all three battalions and two Regimental HQ's plus (already have the MG companies done).

Mainly for looks, I have added battalion and regimental colours to each HQ stand, though there are clear examples of German regiments marching into Belgium with uncased colours at the very beginning of the conflict.

I have not chosen any specific units to depict but I have used flags from Pendraken's PNFL 71 Franco-Prussian flag sheet. I just used PVA to glue the flags in place and then"crease" them before the glue sets to make it look like they are flapping in the wind. Once dry I painted the edges the appropriate colours to complete the look. Quite pleased with the overall effect as the HQ's standout a bit amongst the masses of Feldgrau

Now just need to flock 60 odd bases and then add labels.    

I will take some pics once completed.