Sunny weekend in uk

So with the beautiful weather,i was where any right minded wargame/painter was,hunched over a painting table and loved every minute of it.
                 I had a couple of battalions of French old guard (36 figures) for the collection of Mr "Insanity" Cope.A mix of plastic Victrix and Perry metals,The Perry metals as per were more flash than figure but once cleaned up are lovely sculpt's  as usual from the Perry's,Victrix plastic's with a bit of plastic flash but nothing unusual,the only problem with plastic's (not just Victrix) is the blurring of detail in places,water bottles are one example,the bottles on one side are good clean crisp sculpting but the othe merges into the figure meaning you have to create an edge with the paint.The other thing i found with the Victrix was the bearskins,the fur detail was missing on one side and some of the bearskins seemed to have kinks in them. 
        The Blue i used for the greatcoats are:
P3 paints:
EXILE BLUE,as the basecoat.
CYGNAR BLUE BASE,as the mid colour.
CYGNAR BLUE HIGHLIGHT,as the highlight.



Here's a few pictures of some of the 36 i did this weekend.

Strelkovy company

SMG platoon

mortars

Hmg

MG42 fodder

command

The whole lot just before varnishing.

I did these for a friend in a painted figures for trestles for my war gaming table deal.You get your monies worth with a Russian infantry company. All in all,it took one night per platoon of 40 figs and another night for command and quality control. 

11th cuirassier

Started and finished these at the weekend.Perry metals,once cleaned up usual high standard from them.
I do like these without their cuirass.

The 8th cuirassiers

These for insanity Cope's collection and the up coming Quatre Bra game at the club.Perry plastic.
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The next unit i'll be painting is the 11th,without cuirass,perry metals this time,here's a photo of the amount of flash i had to clean off the figures alone,this is without the horses which had flashing joining all of their legs.the figures also had double mould lines and mould step lines.
Sort it out Perrys.