Posted 10 July 2012 - 08:22 AM
I took the opportunity to pick up two lots of Thirty Years War/English Civil War miniatures. After sorting through them I decided I would start with the cavalry as horses are always a challenge for me. I have been following several blogs that feature ECW troops and one in particular uses an oil wipe technique over the a colored primer before painting the details. I really like the looks of his troops so I decided to give it a go. He has some pretty straight forward instructions on his blog, Metal Mountain. Here are links to the tutorial on painting horses:
http://themetalmount...ing-horses.htmlhttp://themetalmount...ses-part-2.htmlHere is a picture of my results up through last night:
There are a bunch more posts on my trials and tribulations trying out this technique on my blog. The most recent you can find here:
http://wargamesandra...ipe-take-2.htmlYou want to read them all start here:
http://wargamesandra...ome-thirty.htmlIt can be hard to find all the posts within the blog, if you go to the right hand window and scroll down to the keywords and click on "Danes" it will bring up all of them for you.
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