Tuesday 15 June 2021

Napoleonic 6, French dragoons 28th Regiment

 We have another Napoleonic French dragoon unit ,multipose plastic from Perry Miniatures, lovely figures which I've enjoyed painting. 

Same as before, primed black and then painting the colour as a highlight. I painted these horses and 36 others in an evening with a kind of wet brushing, fast and dirty and then clean the tack up with black at a later date, thought that might be of interest to you Keith as I know you have one or two horses to do!







The close ups are pretty harsh but I'm happy enough with them, this takes me to three dragoon regiments, red,yellow and orange facings so far, I think I will do one more,probably pink but not for a while, I have Austrian Napoleonic cavalry on the painting table but some French Napoleonic hussars have swaggered onto the painting tray. I'm also assembling lots of Austrian cavalry and infantry, mostly plastic, so a little less painting but all still hobby time!
All the best 
Iain 


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  1. Cyrus16 June 2021 at 00:19

    Superb Dragoons Iain, well done!

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  2. DeanM16 June 2021 at 00:44

    Great looking Dragoons, Iain. Impressive amount of horse flesh you painted in one go. Dry-brushing over a black undercoat is good way to do this.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 12:37

      Thanks Dean! Industrial horse painting!
      Best Iain

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  3. Jonathan Freitag16 June 2021 at 00:54

    Excellent work! Yours is the second batch of French dragoons I have seen off someone's table today! Must be something in the air.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:48

      Thanks Jonathan! Yes there's a definite presence of French Napoleonic dragoons in blogs at the moment!
      Best Iain

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  4. Peter Douglas16 June 2021 at 04:05

    Those look great Iain,
    Love the orange facings and the black really makes the details pop.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:49

      Thanks Peter! It's a good facing colour!
      Best Iain

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  5. Michal DwarfCrypt16 June 2021 at 06:29

    Lovely looking unit sir!

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  6. Matt Crump16 June 2021 at 08:38

    Really great looking unit and making me itch for Napoleonics 👍

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:50

      Thanks Matt! Go ahead, make the plunge!
      Best Iain

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  7. Ray Rousell16 June 2021 at 10:01

    Great looking Dragoons Iain. Wonder when you'll use orange paint again?

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:51

      Thanks Ray! I know I've used it recently on the gendarmes but you're right,it's not a regular!
      Best Iain

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  8. Lawrence H16 June 2021 at 10:17

    Very smartly done Iain. I was thinking only this week what a relief it is that the French had black tack as it makes painting the horses so much easier.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:51

      Thanks Lawrence! Yes it makes life a bit easier!
      Best Iain

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  9. Norm16 June 2021 at 10:49

    Another nice addition, you armies are going to look superb on the table with the numbers of horse that you are creating

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:52

      Thanks Norm! I certainly hope so,it just means I have to do loads of infantry!
      Best Iain

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  10. Dave Stone16 June 2021 at 11:19

    Excellent looking unit Iain, you mention different colour facings, was this a practice they did, or something you've done to differentiate units ?

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:54

      Thanks Dave! I'm following established facing colours, unlike my gendarmes there is less room to make things up in Napoleonics!
      Best Iain

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  11. fireymonkeyboy16 June 2021 at 13:22

    Oooh, hussars are always fun - if they turn out as well as these, they'll be a treat.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:54

      Thanks Markus! Yes, a slightly intimidating treat!
      Best Iain

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  12. Zabadak16 June 2021 at 13:24

    Lovely unit and well done with the subdued orage facing colour 0 always tricky (imho)to not 'tando' it.
    I prefer the term 'rose' in place of 'pinl' for my Prussian 7yw figures! (much more manly)

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:56

      Thanks Joe! Straight from a pot,a useful citadel colour, now rose does sound butcher!
      Best Iain

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  13. Stew16 June 2021 at 14:18

    Great job! It’s fun when miniatures swagger isn’t it.
    You’re gonna have tons of cav in the end. 😀

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:57

      Thanks Stew! Well if anyone is going to swagger it's going to be the hussars! I'm a bit worried I'm going to have too many but to solve that problem, I've bought lots more infantry!
      Best Iain

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  14. The Jolly Broom Man16 June 2021 at 19:12

    Your production rate is nuts. I seem to paint 1 for every 20 you knock out. Well done matey.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 19:58

      Thanks a lot Mark! It helps to be obsessive?
      Best Iain

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  15. Suber16 June 2021 at 21:56

    Terrific work. The whole unit charging looks impressive.

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  16. 'Lee.17 June 2021 at 10:33

    Thats a great unit Iain and your speed of painting is most impressive. Nothing wrong with those close ups to my eyes, I like the bold style it really works well. Speed painting at it's best :)

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:00

      Thanks Lee! High praise from you, I'll happily take it,as your chaps were certainly inspirational in getting these done!
      Best Iain

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  17. James Fisher17 June 2021 at 14:26

    These are beautiful Iain. A perfect range of subtly different browns for the horses too.
    Regards, James

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:03

      Thanks James! Even my wife commented on the lovely range of browns, while they were sitting in a box waiting to be based in the kitchen, I was looking out of the window, trying to work out where she could see one,let alone more horses when I, pleasantly realised she was praising my miniatures, unheard of!
      Best Iain

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  18. Gonsalvo18 June 2021 at 00:52

    Lovely Dragoons, Iain. The aurore facings look great. Just needs a bearskin or two for the Compagnie d' elite! :-)
    Dragoons do seem to be the flavor of the week.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:05

      Thanks Peter! I did that with the yellow faced unit( I might well have missed a trick with these chaps!) There is a definite dash of dragoons in the ether!
      Best Iain

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  19. rross18 June 2021 at 11:48

    Napoleonic Dragoons seem to be very popular at the moment, and these ones are very nice indeed Iain!

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:06

      Thanks a lot Keith! Lots of horses!
      Best Iain

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  20. Dmitry Svidlo18 June 2021 at 18:27

    Congrats on nice reinforcement for your Napoleonic army. They look contrasting and expressive, which is great!

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:06

      Thanks very much Dmitry! Glad you liked them!
      Best Iain

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  21. Aly Morrison19 June 2021 at 15:25

    Splendid stuff Iain…
    The orange facings work really well…

    All the best. Aly.

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    1. caveadsum147119 June 2021 at 20:07

      Thanks Aly! It's a good facing colour isn't it?
      Best Iain

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  22. Phil28 June 2021 at 06:45

    Dynamic poses and great paint job, love the whole unit, very impressive!

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    1. caveadsum147128 June 2021 at 12:01

      Thanks very much Phil! Perry plastics are good looking figures!
      Best Iain

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