CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
From the Line to the Guns
This one is a bit of a repaint, because I just got the idea in my head to make a Napoleonic Wars Royal Artillery ‘command stand’. I’ll add more before I get them all based together, I think, but for now this chap was a quick starting point. So let’s start with how he was…
He's one of the plastic Perrys that I originally painted up as a company officer (he only has one epaulette) of the 57th Foot. I painted him several years ago now, so it's also a nice opportunity to see how much better my painting has gotten since then...I hope. I decided to cover over what was that as the detail was still pretty good, and dug out some reference images. I’ve gotten pretty close, I think, but there is one definite inaccuracy and one probably inaccuracy. The definite one is merely a result of using an Infantry sculpt as a ‘stand-in’ as the Royal Artillery did not have square cross-belt buckles like this chap, they had oval ones, but I wasn’t going to try and fix that on a mini of this scale. The second probable inaccuracy are the turnbacks on the jacket tails. They did switch to red (as you can see below) but most of the pictures of Napoleonic officers in the post-1812 short tail coats and I suspect that the tails on the pre-1812 jackets would have had white turnbacks. I might fix that. I probably won’t.
You can see the red turnback on the officer here, but this is a later uniform than what I have with the longer tails. The rest of the uniform is a good marker for colours, though.And here’s what I ended up with!
The jacket is Kantor Blue (GW) shaded with Druchii Violet (GW), then re-layed with Kantor Blue and highlighted with Alaitoc Blue (GW). As the trousers already had some shading before I simply re-layered with Ulthuan Grey (GW) before highlighting with White Scar (GW).
The officer's sash around his waist is painted with Screamer Pink (GW) and shaded with Carroburg Crimson (GW) before highlighting of some fo the folds with Pink Horror (GW). Sergeants and above also wear sashes like this, however they are much more red and contain a stripe of facing colour (or equivalent) down the middle of the sash. CSMs and RSMs may have worn sashes more like the officers, though that would depend on the wealth of those men, really.
The sword knot (the black bit on the sword handle) is also a bit of an inaccuracy. Typically Officers had fancy golden knots that were more for show that purprose, but I went with a black colour here simlpy for a bit of contrast. It could either be a field replacement or simply a cheaper one for the battlefield and leave the good one at home for parades.
And the traditional Lloyd. The red colour on the facings is just Mephiston Red (GW) highlighted with Evil Suns Scarlet (GW). In places where there were deeper recesses I rand some Carrbourg Crimson into those, but there wasn't too many in this case. I wanted to maintain a bright red to contrast the dark blue nicely.All in all, and considering some painting breaks, this chap took me a couple of hours to get done. That is considering him being a repaint rather than a ‘ground up’ job, so there would be more time taken if I had to shade the trousers and such. I plan to combine this chap with a drummer and a mounted senior officer as a command stand at some point, but that’s a problem for later on. For now he’ll just go on the shelf of things I’ve finished…twice… I wish I could remove the Spring Clean Competition thing from my project because this hasn’t really turned out to be much about spring cleaning and more about painting what I fancy and have paints for at the time…
Anyhoo… Happy painting, folks!
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