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54MM REPLICA casts painted & varnished at last!… job finished

Really needed the gloss varnish that makes the colours pop up!

That would end my painting for a while. No new subjects in mind at all.

Adding to the collection is easier when they come fully painted!

Enjoy!

REPLICA: My second Guards Unit is well on the way… (II)

That’s it!

I have finished painting my Brigade of Guards! (A childhood project).

To be sincere I will work a bit more on the mounted Officer Horse… they are never really “finished” (horses I mean).

And they still lack the gloss varnish.

My last Project (to be painted by me) will be King Charles III … there on the tray at the back of the pic.

All casts by REPLICA.

Cheers.

The whole Unit (A Brigade of Guards for AGW)

Coldstream Guards finished except gloss varnish

The mounted Officer is a Scots Guards Brigadier (it lacks a bit of work on the horse I admit)

Grenadiers on the Right (ADC 4th Hussars W.S.Churchill)

My second Guards Unit is well on the way. Casts from REPLICA 54mm

My Brigade of Guards for AGW set of rules will be completed wit those Coldstreamers (Nulli Secundus).

Curiously having a unit of Grenadiers and another of Coldstreamers I have decided to make the mounted Brigadier a serious Scot Guards!

Probably my last effort at painting myself the 54MM casts!… pots of paint will be used to do maintenance exclusively.

I will buy painted soldiers from Andrew Stevenson (REPLICA) and Antony Spencer (DORSET and IMPERIAL and AQM)… because they do it better than me… and I am a bit tired (only very elusive things as the SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON SET can make me move…)

Enjoy!

Very few things to add… mainly Black and Gold!

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times VI and last)

Have finished the 4 Grenadiers to complete the first unit.

Easy enough I guess.

More bright red next time.

Enjoy!

PS: Churchill coming out nicely as a young officer of the 4th Hussars…

Working on the Ensigns of the second unit

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times V)

Still thinking about the use of gold paint… or not…

No much satisfied with the red colour of the tunics… maybe gloss varnish will help a bit…

Next unit will be done with a brighter shade of red… Vallejo.

Enjoy!

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times IV)

Almost finished the charging figures of the Guardsmen (Grenadiers)

Had to add white webbing to the REPLICA set…

And working on the mounted officers a bit…

Enjoy!

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times III)

Just want to finish this four charging figures to complete a set of 12 and see how they look when properly painted and varnished!

Funny how they “change look”

Enjoy!

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times II)

Well,

Redcoats will be redcoats I guess…

Slowly brightening the things…

Enjoy!

A new painting job! British Guards in Bearskin (SIMKIN times I)

After a bit of relax (that included searching for the right paint from Vallejo for the rifles!) I am now painting two units for AGW (12 man units); the first one is only 4 charging figures to complete an existing REPLICA set. Will concentrate on those 4 for starts… but also working on the mounted officers and young Churchill (4th Hussars).

It is easier to paint Infantry soldiers if you are not in a hurry. But you need to have a hold on them somehow… so just a job of adding colours patiently. In the case of the guards the bearskin helps a lot!

Since I was a child and had only marching and at the present figures I have wanted to have them in fighting positions… so in the end… DIY is the best way (not the only one of course!).

I have ordered from Dorset Soldiers and Replica some boxes for 2024… if all goes well I will retire from the painting job myself and keep the pots of paint to do maintenance exclusively.

Now, if Andrew Stevenson send to me the 5 casts of the 2nd US Cavalry to do the mounted colour party for the SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON set… that will be all!

Enjoy.