Churchill's Red Painting Technique

[Rob Herrick]

I tried out his painter's combination on a Baluchi. While it was a lot of work, I'm quite pleased with the results!



More Baluchis and other shading color combinations at the blog: With Gen'l Custer Down in Mexico: A Wargaming Blog

[jezamonos]

Looks great. It is always a struggle to do reds.

Not sure i understand the Churchill bit ?

[Rob Herrick]

One of the posters here. He has been asked on how his painter gets his reds as red as they are on several occasions.

[jezamonos]

Ah, got it.

Just looking at your figure more, he looks mighty worried by those sharks circling him.

[Churchill]

Ray.

[Rob Herrick]

Just looking at your figure more, he looks mighty worried by those sharks circling him.

Nah. He's thinking shark soup for dinner . . .

It's less a ring of landsharks than a ring of stones terrain piece they have at my LGS. I was inspired to use it by some of the pictures over at The Campaigns of General William Augustus Pettygree for character shots.

Here is the leader of the Orange Sash Matchlockmen in a similar setup:


The photos do not do justice to the shading of his face (Reaper's Bronzed Flesh triad), but you can rest assured, he isn't concerned about the sharks either!

[Rob Herrick]

Pleased your happy with the Red recipe and your figure does look good along with the highlights.

Thanks. It does look very nice, though the photos do not show what I think are the best highlights - the blue on his turban.

I think I will try it on some more . . . conventional . . . figures and see how well it works. Sadly, most of my collection are 15mm and that may be a bit overkill. Guess I'll have to strip and recondition the Foundry Zulu War British I have.

Come on Jez get with the plan, Rob wasn't talking about the past primeminister although if you keep going on like that you may get a two fingered salute.

Ray.

Well, to put the former prime minister in period costume would require khaki, not red. He's a bit young for the other.