Superb paint job Stuart! The new hard resin and cast weapons and arms certainly looks much easier to assemble than the older figure productions. Balancing arms and weapons was always a nightmare for me.
Thanks for this video! The painting was inspirational as always, but I was also super relieved to see the new sprues will be very easy to put together, I've always wanted a French army, this looks like it!
Great tutorial Stu and well worth the persistent filming attempts. Some cracking new plastics released from Warlord Games. The newer hard blend of siocast is spot on, and I have no issues with it at all apart from the occasional droop barrel which is easily fixed. Some may say tutorial with its clever mix of contrast and traditional painting "blurs" the lines and puts new "focus" on our painting techniques :)
Getting the right colour for French uniforms is quite a trick. They were described officially as khaki, but are a different shade to British WW2 khaki. There are several good colours in the Vallejo range but they need lightening. All-in, you did a great job!
Awesome work as usual! I still got a french army in metal somewhere in my cellar; might need to dig it out and paint it according to your great tutorial!
It’s very good and was my first choice. I did the pigment not as strong however, and it didn’t give a strong enough base. On reflection the same brown I used for everything else would have probably worked better considering the other paints I used to highlight. If I judged wanted to use Contrast alone, then Militarum would have been great.
@@MiniatureRealms Regardless of how you got there, they look fantastic as always. I love your painting approach and never get tired of seeing it applied to new subjects.
Thank you, and cheers for pointing that out, a mixture of Google and the uniforms looking right is the problem there I think. I hope that hasn’t lead me down the wrong path colour wise.
Thank you, I’ll consider that. I’m not sure that’s the main issue though, as I don’t use auto-focus. I can focus it perfectly, but it’s my movement, especially towards the camera while painting, is the main issue. I can help this by zooming out slightly, which I did/do most of the time. I need to invest in a macro lens as well, should help a bit.
I’ve added the colour list to the video description for you Leslie, and how dare you, I paint three models 😆. Very unlikely there will be more or an army, but you never know.
Sorry I only saw two being painted my apologies. I had hoped you would have made and painted a couple of models off the sprue. Are they like the early commandoes or have the weapons being sculpted with the arms.@@MiniatureRealms
@lesliebeilby-tipping6854 No need to apologise, I was only teasing. Oh and I did paint a model off the sprue Leslie, did you watch the whole video? I started with the ones off the sprue, made one and painted it. It was out of focus so I don’t use that footage for the tutorial part (I talked about that in the video while it was happening). I then painted a weapons team, that way showing off both sets. The pictures at the end and on the thumbnail show of the of the plastic guys as well.
I saw the out of focus and skipped on through and watched the painting of the Warlord resin models. Had not realised the out of fucus model was off the sprue as it was out of focus!!@@MiniatureRealms
😆 Good recovery. It wasn’t all out of focus, not the part when I was clipping off the sprue and assembling, and the finished model before I started the other ones/and at end etc. Basically the out of focus stuff I spend up to about a minute and said why, easy to skip past and miss though, it’s no bother.
@user-lb2kr7wt3g Thank you for the feedback. I’m still not entirely sure if you mean too many colours used, or too bright or vibrant, but thank you for commenting anyway.
@user-lb2kr7wt3g Yes I see. All I’d say is it’s just a guide, some people will stop at the ‘Contrast/base paint stage’, other will stop after one highlight, so you can take from it what’s helpful to suit your style and standard. But thank you.
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These look good! Bolt action quallity looks to be going up!
I was quite impressed by them.
Superb paint job Stuart! The new hard resin and cast weapons and arms certainly looks much easier to assemble than the older figure productions. Balancing arms and weapons was always a nightmare for me.
Thank you 😊
Lovely work. Excited to get the French plastics soon
Thank you Ian 🙂
Thanks for this video! The painting was inspirational as always, but I was also super relieved to see the new sprues will be very easy to put together, I've always wanted a French army, this looks like it!
Thank you Colin 🙂
Great tutorial Stu and well worth the persistent filming attempts. Some cracking new plastics released from Warlord Games. The newer hard blend of siocast is spot on, and I have no issues with it at all apart from the occasional droop barrel which is easily fixed.
Some may say tutorial with its clever mix of contrast and traditional painting "blurs" the lines and puts new "focus" on our painting techniques :)
Cheers mate 🙂
Getting the right colour for French uniforms is quite a trick. They were described officially as khaki, but are a different shade to British WW2 khaki.
There are several good colours in the Vallejo range but they need lightening. All-in, you did a great job!
Thank you very much, it came out a little better than I expected 😊.
Love your painting style...:-). The rendering is pretty nice and effective. Good job. (Here's a french man😉) .
Thank you very much 😊
Awesome work as usual! I still got a french army in metal somewhere in my cellar; might need to dig it out and paint it according to your great tutorial!
Thank you very much 😊
Great work and lovely paint work.
Thanks mate 🙂
Lovely tutorial. These figures look very interesting
Thank you Arthur
Looks like good kits Stu. Great tutorial thanks
Cheers Dom 🙂
The Contrast Militarum Green would be great for the helmets One of my favorite of the range.
It’s very good and was my first choice. I did the pigment not as strong however, and it didn’t give a strong enough base. On reflection the same brown I used for everything else would have probably worked better considering the other paints I used to highlight. If I judged wanted to use Contrast alone, then Militarum would have been great.
@@MiniatureRealms Regardless of how you got there, they look fantastic as always. I love your painting approach and never get tired of seeing it applied to new subjects.
@Vorpal_Wit That’s very kind, thank you very much 😊
Looks cool.
Thank you 🙂
I dont remember how i painted my atlantic french so i trully needed this
Thank you 🙂
Inspiring.
Thank you 😊
I would love to paint this detailed but I gotta paint 70 of them 😂
It does start to get painful with that many 😅
great tutorail. For info on 7:02 the 2 dudes are belgain infantry not french.
Thank you, and cheers for pointing that out, a mixture of Google and the uniforms looking right is the problem there I think. I hope that hasn’t lead me down the wrong path colour wise.
It's probably the grid-lines from the cutting mat that is confusing your camera's focus - try using a plain background against the figures instead
Thank you, I’ll consider that. I’m not sure that’s the main issue though, as I don’t use auto-focus. I can focus it perfectly, but it’s my movement, especially towards the camera while painting, is the main issue. I can help this by zooming out slightly, which I did/do most of the time. I need to invest in a macro lens as well, should help a bit.
perfetc for an indochina war custom
Ah excellent
Thanks for the video, where is the list of colours used to paint the figure? So where is the army? You have painted two models where is the rest?
I’ve added the colour list to the video description for you Leslie, and how dare you, I paint three models 😆. Very unlikely there will be more or an army, but you never know.
Sorry I only saw two being painted my apologies. I had hoped you would have made and painted a couple of models off the sprue. Are they like the early commandoes or have the weapons being sculpted with the arms.@@MiniatureRealms
@lesliebeilby-tipping6854 No need to apologise, I was only teasing.
Oh and I did paint a model off the sprue Leslie, did you watch the whole video? I started with the ones off the sprue, made one and painted it. It was out of focus so I don’t use that footage for the tutorial part (I talked about that in the video while it was happening). I then painted a weapons team, that way showing off both sets. The pictures at the end and on the thumbnail show of the of the plastic guys as well.
I saw the out of focus and skipped on through and watched the painting of the Warlord resin models. Had not realised the out of fucus model was off the sprue as it was out of focus!!@@MiniatureRealms
😆 Good recovery. It wasn’t all out of focus, not the part when I was clipping off the sprue and assembling, and the finished model before I started the other ones/and at end etc. Basically the out of focus stuff I spend up to about a minute and said why, easy to skip past and miss though, it’s no bother.
Just a shame that the spruces don’t contain any heads with the Kepi,as I’ve had to buy white metal legionnaires for my 13DBLE bir Hakeim army
That’s something I hadn’t considered, does the Atlantic kit come with them?
@@MiniatureRealms I had to order them from Perry and Askari,cost me a small fortune,
@@MiniatureRealms the Atlantic kit is “future” foreign legion with lasers,not really fair on the jolly jerries 🤣🤣
@LEESS1005 😆 No not really. I thought they’d done a WW1/2 dual kit, but must be thinking of something else.
Great work but to mutch color!!
Thank you. Too many paints used?
To much difference colorfor a 28mm
@user-lb2kr7wt3g Thank you for the feedback. I’m still not entirely sure if you mean too many colours used, or too bright or vibrant, but thank you for commenting anyway.
Hello
Yes you use 19 colors
On a 28mm!
@user-lb2kr7wt3g Yes I see. All I’d say is it’s just a guide, some people will stop at the ‘Contrast/base paint stage’, other will stop after one highlight, so you can take from it what’s helpful to suit your style and standard. But thank you.