Hobby Roundup. Spring Clean 2024.
Perry Miniatures French Carabiniers.
I actually painted the trumpeter and officer for the last Spring Clean and did one of the troopers after. The officer was never based and I had started on the horses. I wanted to finish at least a small unit before the end of the Spring Clean. One of the problems faced I think by many of us is that our pile of things to do can increase and not decrease over the course of the challenge and certain things get bumped further down the list. I was determined however to do something with this unit. I will add to it later and bring its strength up to twelve.
I wasn’t happy with the sky blue on the saddle cloth and trim on the riders and repainted it using GW Caledor Sky, shaded with GW Macragge Blue and highlighted with Calgor Blue. I had not realised that the collars and turnbacks should be a light blue and the blue part of the trim around the cuirass should be a dark blue. I painted the latter Vallejo Game Color Dark Blue. I aslo tidied up the figures and reinforced the white edging to the blue cloth for a cleaner finish. The plastic pole on the Eagle Bearer was replaced with a section of paper clip. This was for two reasons: firstly for durability and secondly as is it is not long enough to fit a GMB flag.
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