Pleased to report that the 1st Michigan are now totally complete.. click on any of the following for a pleasingly enlarged view....
That's in all their table-top guises, dismounted [click here - and also for unit history], with their horse-holders [click here] for when in dismounted mode, and now also in this, their mounted mode...
I could rave for hours about how much I like these figures, but I think the best thing about them is that even my "painting savagery" doesn't spoil the lines...
Purposeful I like to think... 
I especially like the grey on the end - he worked out quite well in this batch...
Figures are 20mm Newline Designs - painting was done in my usual style (rushed and botched...) - black spray undercoat, dampbrush all over in white, and then predominantly a succession of inks/washes.
For the horses I used an old bottle of Citadel "Chestnut", the darker one is Vallejo "Smoke" - I didn't use anything for the grey - just a slightly heavier damp brush with the white than the others.... I then washed them all over with a very thin black wash... I went back to do mains/tails/bottoms of the legs/harness in plain black...
Coat tunics are Winsor and Newton Calligraphy ink "Dark Blue" - I like the way it highlights & shades all in one coat when painted on top of the white... I used their "Black" for the previous step... I like these inks so much I may try some of the browns for horse colours... only "downside" is that the inks are water soluble, but I like it, as it means a simple wet paintbrush easily fixes mistakes...! The inks are then fixed at the end with a matt fixative spray..
Dismounted mode - extended skirmish line with horse-holders behind....
The next eight are already under-coated and waiting to be turned in the Confederate 7th Virginia...
That's in all their table-top guises, dismounted [click here - and also for unit history], with their horse-holders [click here] for when in dismounted mode, and now also in this, their mounted mode...
I could rave for hours about how much I like these figures, but I think the best thing about them is that even my "painting savagery" doesn't spoil the lines...
Purposeful I like to think... 
I especially like the grey on the end - he worked out quite well in this batch...Figures are 20mm Newline Designs - painting was done in my usual style (rushed and botched...
) - black spray undercoat, dampbrush all over in white, and then predominantly a succession of inks/washes. For the horses I used an old bottle of Citadel "Chestnut", the darker one is Vallejo "Smoke" - I didn't use anything for the grey - just a slightly heavier damp brush with the white than the others.... I then washed them all over with a very thin black wash... I went back to do mains/tails/bottoms of the legs/harness in plain black...
Coat tunics are Winsor and Newton Calligraphy ink "Dark Blue" - I like the way it highlights & shades all in one coat when painted on top of the white... I used their "Black" for the previous step... I like these inks so much I may try some of the browns for horse colours... only "downside" is that the inks are water soluble, but I like it, as it means a simple wet paintbrush easily fixes mistakes...! The inks are then fixed at the end with a matt fixative spray..
Dismounted mode - extended skirmish line with horse-holders behind....The next eight are already under-coated and waiting to be turned in the Confederate 7th Virginia...
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