Use gold, might be a tad bright but should be ok

8mm, won't really make a lot of difference - at this scale bright is ok. They are cocktail sticks cut down.

Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 April 2024, 08:13:01 AM8mm, won't really make a lot of difference - at this scale bright is ok. They are cocktail sticks cut down.

From experience, anything that fires black powder will get very dirty very quickly., so it will depend if you want a parade ground or battlefield look.

On the Little Wooden Men? Parade Ground, they don't do realistic!

16 carriages assembled and based. Need to see how the gold paint on cocktail stick came out.  If that's OK, will paint more cocktail sticks, then cut to size and glue on tomorrow afternoon when I get home/Saturday,  and hopefully .

Also need to paint the wheel rims on the bits the green has gone over. The burnt edge from the laser cut looks good.

Research shows the cocktail sticks need to be cut to approx 8mm each. Happy days...

I have 16 cannon based. Crews mostly done; cuffs, faces, shakos and boots to do.

Slight problem.  I don't know what I used for faces.

[Thinking while typing]

Yes I do, I don't know where it is! 

Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 April 2024, 09:50:33 PMSlight problem.  I don't know what I used for faces.

Paint?

Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 April 2024, 10:12:09 AMPaint?

See someone is in a helpful mood today. Slightly more helpful - Flesh coloured paint

[sigh] I don't know where the flesh coloured paint I used is.

Is that clearer for the terminally hard of thinking? 

To give you an idea of the match up between French and Russians at Borodino for 'Blucher'

Russians II Corps- 3 Infantry stands Elan 5, 2 Artillery stands.
Total 45 points

French I Corps - 5 Infantry elan 6, all with skirmish ability and attached cannon, 1 Cavalry stand, 1 artillery stand
Total 86 points

And that is possibly with not enough French artillery.

A standard game is 300 points. The 1st Western Army for the Russians is 336. Both 1st and 2nd is less than 600.

ONE CORPS of French is 86 points.

No person is exactly the same complexion as another, so if the Russians differ slightly it does not matter

Flesh paint was found, and 16 gun crews correctly faced before I went to pub Quiz.

Tomorrow the same gun crews will be correctly faced, as it were.

Hats, boots and grass left.

Hopefully it will be this weekend where I finish, and have 16 cannon - enough for 2, 4 and 6 corps.

That is a total of 131 points... Out of 300... 

Next - probably some officers, then decide what cavalry to do.