I will follow up my Carabinieri painting with a batch of 18 Jägers. By using a new technique I hope to cut the time required with a good chunk of hours. 13/9 Jägers put on bases, based with black primer spray and stuck with nails to a stick! The painting can commence! Episodes 3.35 and 3.36 of the Revolutions podcast saw me base the jackets and greatcoat rolls! 14/9 Productive day, laying base colour on rifles, heads and hands and pants! 3.37-3.41 done. 15/9 Brass and hair halfways done. 3.42-3.43. 16/9 Finished muskets. I'm washing everything at once (with a few different mixes of washes on the plate at the same time, convenient indeed!). Then I continue with the laboursome process of doing the black leather and highlight it in dark grey. 3.44-3.49 (now, Napoleon is joining the game - fun to get a quick refreshing on the Italian campaigns after reading about them in length in David Chandlers "The Campaigns of Napoleon"). Jonas has finished 18 Voltigeurs and started on a horse artillery gun, so he is really getting ahead of me! 17/9 Much done today. Layers on jackets, greatcoat rolls, trousers, tassels, sword knots, flesh…! It took some respectable episodes 3.50-3.55, that's The entire French Revolution finished! 55 episodes during building my Sharp Practice force. I also listened to Watain's "Sworn to the Dark". Now I actually smell my own perspiration so I need to take a shower and then go drink some beer! Hope I will finish of these Jägers tomorrow. I am up to around 12 hours of painting now, so I think there will be no problem to get under the 15 hours I hoped for. 18/9 Done! Listened to episodes 169-172 and 177-178 of History of Rome, because as with The Lord of The Rings, I did not finish it at my first attempt (and in the case of Lord of The Rings, I will never do as the books miss almost all qualities of read-worthy literature). Put red on the uniforms, made the tassels and a lot of other tiding up. Probably I fiddled with details a little to much on the end, but the end result is really what matters and I don´t like to be disturbed by looking at small beauty faults when gaming! Podcasts: 13,5 hours Music: 1 hour Total: 14,5 hours Cut 4,5 hours, hurrah! Done in six days, hurrah!! The many time-saving points ought to be: making all washes and all layering at one time instead of going back and forth. Not as much experimenting this time. Next time I will leave the trousers without wash, as I think that will just make the painting easier and will give me at least as good results. I will try to relax on the painting quality standards a bit as well, and let a few missed details that no-one will see go without fixing. Cheers! /Shirty
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