Borodino, 4th group: French foot artillery

[Bendy_Straw]

It has almost been a year, and this project is starting to round up nicely, and it will probably be finished in the next 3-4 months. Here are the french guns. The quality of my painting is only getting better, and in the past months I realised the importance of a good basing: they essentially are almost 50% of a good mini. And I tried a bunch of stuff until I could finally make realistic, nice looking bases, and I believe it's evident in these pics. Unfortunately I don't have a good quality camera, I assure you these look much better up close. It looks like I'm not puting a lot of effort in the highlights, but there are 3-4 layers of them, at least on the main colours, but my camera can't capture that. Anyways, I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. And check out the work in progress to see what I'm planning to do with the 3rd gun!

[Patrick71]

These pictures are very good and the highlighting is certainly visible when you enlarge them. I love this Zvezda set a lot because of the very good sculpting and the dynamic poses. These units are very well painted in detail and honour the set.
Thank you for sharing.
Patrick

[Bluefalchion]

Those terrain bases look really terrific! Guns and "servants," too. Thanks for posting. Cannot wait to see the rest.

[MikeRC97]

These look great!

[Emperor]

Man that cannon and figures are great painted...On photo they look as 1 32 scale...Like the groundwork also, but the metal details on cannon are superb...Like a real cannon...

[renikart]

Very niceley painted! Bases also look very realisitic. The use of the small gravel makes it very detailled. Is this for war gaming?

[Bendy_Straw]

Thank you!

[Bendy_Straw]

Thank you. Hypothetically yes, if I had someone to play with hahah

[Michael Robert]

Hello Brendy,
agree with the colleagues. Well painted, good basing work. The highlights appear well.
One item could maybe improve on what you show already - reduce the shine by using better matt varnish

Greets
Michael

[Bendy_Straw]

That's a good observation, I have also realised I have a small issue with this.

[Peter]

That is some fantastic painted artillery! Can't wait to see more!

[Ben Bob]

Nice work! I like you painting style

[Bendy_Straw]

Soon!

[Rich W]

Really nice, I think you can see the improvements from some of your original works shared? These are great figures and you've more than done them justice.

[Bendy_Straw]

Yes, the difference is clear, that's why I keep my favourite minis to paint last