Draconis does….. The Silver Bayonet

12th August 2024

Since last update I started working on some colours.

Source images for the green jackets seem to vary quite a bit from a ‘forest’ green to almost black.

I decided to go for one of the more green shades so that it would ‘read’ on the tabletop. Tried out some bronze green I’d used on my tanks, contrast, some mixes of contrast and even found an ancient pot of Dark Angels green that was still usable.

I think that I will go with the Dark Angels green with Nuln Oil wash and highlight. More work than the others but I feel it gives a better end result.

Same thing with the red. Tried out some contrast paints, some reds, combination with washes etc. Will go with red, agrax and highlight. Although I may thin it somewhat for the trousers.

I like to then roll out the scheme on a test model, get the order of painting bits, any steps that can be simplified and such. However, I forgot to get many pics on the way, and realised towards the end….

9th August 2024

Last weekend, after building four British Riflemen for my wife I thought to myself….. ‘well, there are still another 28 in the box so I’ll build a few for myself’.

These then got a quick black then grey spray and I started testing out shades of green from my somewhat limited selection. Applying to the base rims.

Looking at the pts costs I realised that I couldn’t actually field an Officer and 7 riflemen ?

Then I recalled that I had a box of Victrix British infantry somewhere…..

So it was on to building up some of these. I did a few initially, then ended up having to do the same number as I had of Riflemen, because… reasons.

I also did a minor conversion on one – cutting off a bare hand, drilling out a socket and using a pistol hand (that seemed to have no reason being on the sprue, since there was no socketed arm for it…). This can be an Artillerist, so I gave it the non Shako head.