Dedication is a wonderful thing. A number of army painters will recommend against doing what I just did, because it can be discouraging to see the overwhelming number of minis to be painted. I wanted to get all this out of the way. I plan on painting them in batches and then being able to mix up my battalions because of that.
I know, I know. At this scale the variety really isn't that visible. But it is to me and that's all that matters.
Here's how it works. I need 8 battalions. Each stick holds 8 minis. So I can paint each 8 the same except for the battalion designation. Those will go one per mini per stick. I can do the bulk of the army painting the regular style then just do the battalion designations across sticks. Poms and plumes are quick paints.
On to pictures.
This is the command figures and the skirmishers. Total of 24 skirmishers, 8 eagle bearers, 8 drummers, and 3 sub-commanders. I had to break up some of the organization to make it fit on the bookcase.
So that brings the minis so far to 329 and that's just the core infantry. I think I've got too many of the fusiliers but I'd rather have too many than not enough. The mounted generals were just because I had them, I was prepping and priming minis and they might be a fun break to paint.
My paints are on order yet. I'm using Reaper Pro Paints for the bulk of these. The paints are vinyl based so they cover very well in one coat. Very important in painting this many minis. And I'm planning on painting in what I call "cartoon style" so the colors are very vivid and stand out well on the table. With so many of them bunched up together the subtle stuff gets lost. One of the club guys has his painted that way and I really liked it.
While waiting for the uniform color paints I'm going to work on skin and hair this Saturday. That is easy enough - base coat and wash. I don't even know if I'm going to do the highlight since I'm going to try moving away from the dark brown wash to the lighter, more reddish flesh wash. I'm also going to be just a little OCD and paint each stick with a different color of hair. That also gets a simple wash. I know it shouldn't show much from a distance but I'll know and when someone picks up a stand of minis it will look like I made a lot more effort than I did.
The next shots should show paint on the minis. Primer is not a color!
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