Okay then, OH MY GOD!!!!! Things that get in the way are irritating. Better. So Very little progress on the forlorn 36 man French battalion. Faces are still plodding along. Testing the various colors I have culled out on my table. Trying at the same time to regain lost muscle memory. The eyes are all done...so hard to keep them from looking pop-eyed...how did I do it before? I am progressively getting the white slashes smaller and closer set the noses of the figures. Trying to keep the pupils small and biased toward the top of the slash. Also trying to be aware of placement...if one pupil ends up in the wrong spot, I am trying to get the other pupil in the corresponding wrong spot as to give the figure a glancing look.
Since I don't want to just keep photographing faces forever, I have decided to load some really helpful video links that I use on various projects...errrr, when I actually see a project through to completion, that is.
Today's links will all be Flames of War links, but are fairly ubiquitous as techniques go. One note, on the Techniques from Combat Painter, I use and prefer the Golden's Coarse Pumice technique for Flames of War basing and other 15mm basing projects. On 25/28mm projects, while the Golden's Coarse Pumice technique will work just as well, I personally prefer to use the old white glue and basing sand routine. Lastly, The Painting Clinic has a superb Flames of War basing video which I will post here as well. I use a combination of the Combat Painter and the Painting Clinic techniques for my own bases. I use the pumice gel, then use the Vallejo color triad from the Painting Clinic. Word of caution...ALL of these guys use a minimal amount of flock, tufts, crumbles of coarse flock and small rocks...there is a reason...too much of anything is bad...very bad; and once the too much flock or static grass is down, it is there to stay, so all the rest of the character and definition of the base you worked so hard on goes away...DOHHH!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVebYoC34g Combat Painter's Basing Flames of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-kcBS5c8Q Modeldad's How to make spent HMG rounds for your Flames of War bases
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zq8W1bLEg The Painting Clinic's How to Paint 15mm US Airborne for FLames of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92P048H2EM Flames of War Open Fire! US Parachute Rifleman Painting Guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRlHszEqzE Flames of War Open Fire! Grenadier Painting Guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nsn--kKbjk arbaal817 Red Devils Special
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