11 November 2012

Manchuria, 1905


Hi all!
After painting so much armour and colourfull clothing and shields my eyes needed a break. After Björn wrote some Russo-Japanese-War army lists for Triumph&Tragedy I decided to paint some khaki wearing Russians. For a link to the army list pdf have a look at the Tsuba Miniatures site. There you can buy this fantastic miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks, the Russians also can be used to represent the "colourfull" regiments of the South Russian Army during the Russian Civil War.
I experimented a bit with different khakis and washes on the shirts of the Russians. Their official summer dress where white shirts and white cloth cover for their heads. But they soon realised that the Japanese where good shooters and order was given to dye the white cloth or stop washing them. The dying was done by local chinese labourers and the result where a wide variety of khaki shades.
Enough said, I´m happy with how they turned out,
Cheers
Jan

14 comments:

  1. Wow, they turned out realy great! Like your choice of color.

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  2. Very nice!! The different khaki shades look very well.

    Cheers.

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  3. Wow, smaching paintjob(as usual)!

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  4. Lovely work Jan on the Russians.

    Cheers,

    Helen

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  5. You should be very happy as the look superb!!

    Christopher

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  6. Amazing work, Jan! How the hell do you manage to be so prolific!?

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  7. Thank you all! I´m not that prolific at all, and my painting time will decrease when my little boy is born for sure! But sometimes it gets me and I paint for hours like a maniac. I guess all of you know what I´m talking about...

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  8. Fantastic, I saw these on the Tsuba site and loved what you did with them, brilliant work

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  9. Sorry to hijack your post but I wanted to let you know that I've nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award. Thanks for doing such a great job on your blog!

    http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.ca/2012/11/liebster-award.html

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  10. Well and so did I! :)

    http://docphobossdiary.blogspot.de/2012/11/he-doesnt-look-like-oscar.html

    Brilliant stuff, Jan!

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  11. Fantastic minis...and blog! Your painting style is really impressive!
    Phil.

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