AWI Painting Diary

[TinyTerrain]

Week 5 - American Artillery finished, 3 guns (1 Continental Army, 1 French and 1 stolen piece manned by Militia). All yet to be varnished, but not in this weather!









This weeks unit will a contingent from Kirkwood's Delaware Battalion (light infantry skirmishing), complete with blue striped trousers if I feel cocky 

Cheers, Craig
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[Techno]

Lovely stuff again Craig !
Cheers - Phil.

[Aart Brouwer]

I am now officially jealous. These little fellows are gonna look *so* good on your table.. 

Cheers,
Aart

[realthing]

Excellent painting and bases

[nikharwood]

I am now officially jealous. These little fellows are gonna look *so* good on your table.. 

Cheers,
Aart

Wot Aart sed 

Note-to-self: pull finger out, get on with some painting...

[Hertsblue]

Terrific, Craig. 

Militia crew, eh? One to stand well back from methinks! 

[TinyTerrain]

Week 6 - The Delaware BlueJays Completed









So the first of the American's irregular troops are finished. A slight change of plan in terms of how they were going to be painted because when I looked at the miniatures they had very cool tassled jackets which I just had to have a proper crack at.  For those of you who are interested in how I painted these I did a step by step painting guide on my new 10mm AWI Blog, which can be read here:

http://13colonies.blog.co.uk/

All comments and crits very welcome as usual,

Cheers, Craig

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[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice stuff!

[Leon]

Awesome, and nice trees as well!

[Steve J]

These just keep getting better with each new posting!

[Serotonin]

These are looking tops and making it both easier and harder to bust out my bag of AWI troops!

[GavinP]

Looking good. 

As ever I'm going to offer something other than just a "wow/great/AN Other superlative" type post and give some criticism. 

In your 4A picture, the wash has highlighted the fringing beautifully and you can see it's extremely fine. I kind of feel you've killed that detail with your buff strokes which are too heavy and wide. I think on the next batch you should try and line them a bit finer. Hope you don't take offence.

[TinyTerrain]

Thanks Gavin, always useful to get a reasonable crit. You're right, they could do with being finer, lets hope my hands a little steadier next time.

No offence taken at all.

Cheers, Craig
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[wargamesbob]

Innovative basing, don't you just love it

[GavinP]

Craig,

Glad you're ok with criticism, some aren't! I suffer from shakey hands, so I've developed a method where both hands are braced on each other. That way when they move, they move together, so figure and brush have the same relative movement. I also built my painting desk with a high shelf which I use to brace my wrists on eliminating the shake.

Oh and I forgot to say the trees are extremely good. Bit worried how they'll bear up with wargamers pawing at them during games though. Are they sturdy enough?