Grey v Blue - resurrection of my 6mm ACW
The Painting Process
Painting 6mm figures is easy and relatively quick to do. The process I use is as follows:
Base Colours
- Prime the figures in black
- Choose your main base coat band dry brush the F*** out of the figures. In the case of the confederacy it was grey or butternut. In the case if the union it’s the dark blue colour of the blouse that I use
- Pick your secondary colour usually the colour of the trousers.
- Paint the skin in an appropriate skin colour mostly the face and the hands
- Paint the wooden bits I usually use burnt umber for this
- Then use a appropriate silver colour for the barrels and swords etc I normally use Vallejo steel
Washing
- That is the main colours done so next up is the wash . Use either a nut brown ink or a dark tone like nuln oil for this and paint over the entire figure.
Highlights
- After the wash is dry then it’s on to picking out the cuffs and belt buckles etc
- For the cuffs use Light blue for infantry, Red for Artillerymen and yellow for the cavalry
Basing
- I am using 60mmx30mm bases cut out of plasticard.
- I glue the figures in two rows of three strips using UHU.
- I then use a Vallejo texture to smooth over the strip bases.
- I then paint the base using a sand colour.
- Then add fine grained sand
- This is then soaked using the Baccus base wash
- Then dry brush using three colours of sand paint from Baccus.
- Final stage is then to add some flock to taste.
That’s all the figures done a single base of figures can be painted and based in about an hour.
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Love the detailed looking figures for gaming with for the table game’s @commodorerob congratulations on the gold button.
Cheers @zorg much appriciated 🙂