Painting Perry Plastic French

[RedRowan]

Hi guys, been out of the hobby for a few years and got the itch to start painting and possibly gaming again.

As I'm so out of practice, I bought the French command sprue rather than buy a whole box set just to practice on a couple of figures and see if my skills are up to scratch. I just wanted to know if the painting guide included in the box is available to purchase separately?

Cheers

Steve

[Jajf]

There's usually uniform guides included in the perry plastic sets but they're not painting guides as such. The main thing I reckon is to find a good shade of blue for the uniform.

[RedRowan]

Thanks for that Jajf, I think I'm probably getting mixed up with the uniform guides and such printed on the back of the box.

Steve

[grant]

Hi guys, been out of the hobby for a few years and got the itch to start painting and possibly gaming again.

As I'm so out of practice, I bought the French command sprue rather than buy a whole box set just to practice on a couple of figures and see if my skills are up to scratch. I just wanted to know if the painting guide included in the box is available to purchase separately?

Cheers

Steve

Check out this site, it is my favourite for uniform guides.

http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/

[RedRowan]

That's a great link, thanks very much grant.

Steve

[grant]

That's a great link, thanks very much grant.

Steve

You're welcome! It was the best site I found. I print out the stuff I want and make a journal/scrapbook and then keep a diary of what colours I use. That way a year from now I can add a unit and match the colours perfectly. It will be my archival journals to pass on to the miniatures museum someday. LOL.

Good luck, and be sure to post pics !

[King Tiger]

There's usually uniform guides included in the perry plastic sets but they're not painting guides as such. The main thing I reckon is to find a good shade of blue for the uniform.

what he was supposed to say was a good shade of red, because you want to do swiss *force powers* you will do swiss

[grant]

There's usually uniform guides included in the perry plastic sets but they're not painting guides as such. The main thing I reckon is to find a good shade of blue for the uniform.

what he was supposed to say was a good shade of red, because you want to do swiss *force powers* you will do swiss

Actually, the Perry slip includes a nice Swiss 2nd battalion. Also, cent-jours has a nice guide
http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/de ... &unite=176

[RedRowan]

what he was supposed to say was a good shade of red, because you want to do swiss *force powers* you will do swiss

Actually, already thinking about this after seeing an example of the Perry box set painted that way. Plan is to put together 2 or 3 battalions at first and one of those will probably be Swiss.

Fingers crossed my paints will turn up this week and I can have a bit of a play with the samples I have. Been reading a few painting blogs and things have changed quite a bit, no army painter or dipping the last time I held a brush. Will be interesting finding a method that works for me again.

Steve

[grant]

what he was supposed to say was a good shade of red, because you want to do swiss *force powers* you will do swiss

Actually, already thinking about this after seeing an example of the Perry box set painted that way. Plan is to put together 2 or 3 battalions at first and one of those will probably be Swiss.

Fingers crossed my paints will turn up this week and I can have a bit of a play with the samples I have. Been reading a few painting blogs and things have changed quite a bit, no army painter or dipping the last time I held a brush. Will be interesting finding a method that works for me again.

Steve

the Army Painter stuff is excellent. There are a lot of threads on here about it - the best tip to not "dip" but rather to brush it on.

Check out this website: http://djokergaming.wordpress.com/ - he uses the Army Painter and then brushes on highlights, to great effect.

Good luck and be sure to post pics!