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Painting Portrait 25e Danish Line Infantry 1848

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 26th Feb 2025
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My project Schleswig Holstein in 1/72 continues if a bit slowly.

This time this unit – piquet field of battle battalion, is offered up as my final entry in this winters paint what you got painting challenge https://wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/paint-what-you-got-painting-challenge.html?sc=1734736394728&m=1#c801656457305268158. It is run by Dave Stone.

The figures are hat Nassau Napoleonic infantry. 1/72 or 20mm plastics.

I picked them because they have the nearest shako look for the Dane’s bell shako.

I have started to use a furled flag approach as invariably my flag production does not match my figure painting!

I could do some head swops to get other sets in on the act but wanted to try a straight paint job here to see if I liked the result.

The basing is my standard 40mm square mdf with budgie grit pva then 3 colour brown, ochre and yellow/white highlights. As it’s nearly spring the grass is dead tufts from gamers grass over Javis sawdust green.

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Intermission 25b

Not many frosts this winter although it’s been consistently cold.

We had a decent snow fall – now a rare event

We have also had some very big clear skies when the moon is visible even when it’s quite small

Nothing like the red orange grey blue contrast in this sunset

Tags cloudscapes, life, nature, the natural world, weather

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UKRAINE

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It’s February so it’s Vikings in York

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 23rd Feb 2025
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This time of the year you can encounter fully armed Vikings strolling through the city of York even picking up their Cornish pasties at Cooplands the bakers (I missed that pic opportunity).

Tags life, medieval warfare, Vikings, war reenactment

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The Painting Portrait 25d First War of Italian Independence

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 6th Feb 2025
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Quickly following on from breaking my duck in the analogue hobbies painting challenge I submitted these fine horsemen.

Now Modena was a small duchy in 1848 and the Dragoons were both mounted and a foot based part of the ducal army.

In fact the mounted arm stretched to just a few squadrons.

That was fine with me – I just had to have some sky blue cavalry in my collection.

The miniatures are Irregular (now based in Kingston upon Hull). They are easy to paint and have the detail I want for gaming.

My AHPC15 entry is here http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/from-john-b-friday-crew-1848-modena.html?m=1

Back to the paint table as they say.

Tags 20-25mm, 20mm, 20mm metals, mid 19th century wargames, miniature figures, miniatures painting, painting portrait, risorgimento, VTW1848, wargaming, Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe, wars of italian unification, wars of the italian unification

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The Painting Portrait 25c Flugelmutzes in 1848?

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 3rd Feb 2025
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My first entry into the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge No15 were figures left over from last years challenge. They were primed but that was it.

So having a LIMBO section in this years theme of the Divine Comedy by Dante was most helpful.

The figures were Hat 1806 Prussian Hussars repurposed as 1848 Prussian Hussars. Fortunately the Prussians in 1848 were going going all new with frock coats and pickelhaubes but also retro with flugelmutzes!

You can read the entry here

http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/from-john-b-friday-crew-1848-8th.html

This year I have got off to a slow start with AHPC15 and Dave Stones Paint What You Got challenge is well challenging me.

hey ho.

Tags 1/72, 1/72 plastics, 20-25mm, hat 1/72, hat miniatures, mid 19th century wargames, miniature figures, miniatures painting, painting figures, painting miniatures, Vienna Treaty Wars, VTW1848, wargames, wargaming, Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe

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The Painting Portrait 25b 1848 Bavarians 4th Line

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 31st Jan 2025
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Next up for my Painting Portrait is another Paint What You Got effort, this time it’s the 4th line who differ only from the 7th line in their facings – yellow for the 4th with white metal buttons while the 7th sport pink with yellow metal buttons.

Painting Portrait 25a details the scenery.

My mid nineteenth century units are four 40mm square bases coated with pva and budgie grit followed by a three colour paint job – burnt sienna then heavy dry brush yellow ochre finally light dry brush a yellow white to highlight.

Peco railway scenic grass is the final addition. I tend to match the base greenery to the uniform colour accepting my armies are mixed based.

Tags 1/72 metals, 1858 Bavarian Line, 20-25mm, 20mm, 20mm metals, 25mm metals, mid 19th century wargames, miniature figures, miniatures painting, new line miniatures, painting portrait, wargaming, Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe

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The Painting Portrait 25a 1848 Bavarians

Post author By lorenzoseventh
Post date 28th Jan 2025
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This is my first contribution to this winters “paint what you got” by Dave Stone. Last year I managed to get going by 7th January so it’s even slower progress this year.

Anyway this post also marks the switch to “painting portraits” after the demise of the “painting pedestal” before Christmas – it has a nice new home – just not mine.

The portrait approach should enable me to show scenery as and when it appears.

First up then are 7th line infantry of Bavaria who were sent on behalf of the north German federation to fight in support of the Schleswig Holstein rebels against the Danes.

The 1848 war was a victory for the Danes.

The figures are in fact Newline 20mm Prussian Napoleonic Landwehr. I simply trimmed the hat top and used some liquid green stuff to mask the officers coat long tails.

I must say these figures were a pleasure to paint and I really like the colours I chose in the end. This makes it all the more surprising in that I actually primed these figures back in March 2023!

The building is total battle miniatures bought ready painted – still my favourite piece – it no longer features as the range has changed. I think it was from their 15mm range or old 25mm one now they advertise only 28mm or 15mm.