Sunday, February 28, 2016

'Nautical' from StefanK - '... jolly tars are our men...'

As one of my ridiculously small projects this winter I tackled some British seamen for the Napoleonic era. Six of them were my lousy output for January and some others had to follow until late February when Tactica wargaming show was scheduled. As you see it's late February now and I'm lucky to present more tars now:
Unit from both batches
Altogether there were eight more navymen that I finished during the last weeks. Actually once again lousily few figures but somehow my life hasn't hobby convenient lately. Anyway the following chaps are once again from Brigade Games's excellent range. The sculpts were from Paul Hicks and as usual they are full of character and detail. Although it seems his virtuosity with face increased since he made those figures they are absolutely brilliant and top notch among all other 28mm figures tackling this topic.
In detail those are the men I painted:

Rather a mixed bag of weapons as you would expect from a quickly assembled boarding or landing party. Once again I tried to break uniformity slightly with varying the colours of the trousers. I painted to of the dark blue and used different shades of beige for the other ones.

Anyway there were two very characterful figures I wanted to bring out:


The seasoned one armed veteran and the chap who is wearing a headscarf caught my eye since I started to clean the castings. Thus they acquired striped trousers. No piece of art but I hope you like the touch.

Altogether there are 14 finished sailors now 12 of which will hit the board on Tactica wargaming show. And obviously I'm lucky to have implemented my entry for the naval bonus round.

16 comments:

  1. I can almost hear the strains of 'Hearts of oak' (as well as a few selections from 'HMS Pinafore') echoing in my ears! I have to say that these jolly Jack Tars look the business, alright!

    Well done, Stefan!

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    1. You cannot imagine how often I murmered 'Heart of Oak' while painting these. ;-)

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  2. Well done Stefan, great to see these done - lovely work my friend.

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  3. A nice set of Jacks here Stefan :)

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  4. I really like these figures and submitted a large group earlier in the Challenge - but your painting id far superior to mine!

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  5. Beautiful work Stefan. I really like their striped trousers!

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  6. These figures are great, nicely painted.

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  7. That is one dangerous looking pressgang.

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  8. Many thanks for your kind feedback. Really some wonderful figures to raise the painting spirit.
    :-)

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  9. Many thanks for your kind feedback. Really some wonderful figures to raise the painting spirit.
    :-)

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