Excellent tutorial & great results. I went from “so many boys painted in 2 hours you say?” to “oh but it’s still just one unit so there’s hundreds more!” :D
Nice work. I paint my Irregular strips in a very similar way but I do the pants and jackets first then the hands and faces. The cuffs are great for fixing hands that are too big! I paint the base brown. That way mistakes just look like mud 😁 Your finishes brigades look awesome 👏
I like white glue for gluing minis to painting stands. Holds up better than blue tac, peels right off. Takes a while to dry though. This is a great tutorial on 6mm.
Great video and thanks for doing this. You packed so much into this, it's a great tutorial for how to do this, and you make it look straightforward and very manageable. I vote for a label making video too! I would really like to see how you did them!
Happened upon your video when looking for some good tips on painting 6mm Napoleonics since I'm getting ready to move to this scale from 10mm. One bit I noticed missing was putting a dot of metallic paint for the shako plates which would be a good effect for this scale in my view. Thanks for taking the time to share your painting mechanics and style, and your basing technique.
Since neither the shako plate nor the shako cover were mentioned in the video, it appeared to be an oversight worth mentioning. Most shako covers I've seen depicted are typically an off-white, beige, or brown color. Still, the informative value of your video stands on its own. Thanks again. @@StormofSteelWargaming
I think since year about a 6mm Seven years war project but im old now and i dont paint nothing since 20 years.... So i need some tips and advice for try to start...im also colour blindness :-(
It'd be good to see these in the flesh (or should that be metal) one day, to compare against my own method. Your approach is definitely a lot faster than mine! I block in entire colours then use Army Painter to both shade and varnish, rather than the black undercoat method.
Can you post some pics of yours please? I am interested in using army piano for her this and would like to see how it turns out in the end please and thank you!
That’s an amazing job mate. Have you considered putting a layer of spakfilla down first then sticking the minis to the filla. I find it works and is easier than trying to work around the miniatures. I’ve never had any come off when stuck down into the filla.
Thank you! I have considered it, and it would be less work for sure, but I've always been afraid of just using the filla to hold the models. Maybe I'll try it when I get around to doing the Prussians...
@@StormofSteelWargaming this is the method I use, I think i've had to glue in maybe 2 or 3 figures out of the 500+ figures I did for my crimean war project.
Thanks! That's a shame, I'd keep an eye out at game shows as there are occasionally sets that turn up. The base is 3.5x2.5 inches, I get them from Sally 4th. The cards don't tell you what is in each brigade, I had to do that research from Mark Adkin's The Waterloo Companion which tells you the exact composition of each brigade and which units are present.
@@StormofSteelWargaming thank you. So I could start painting and basing now really. I believe Sally 4th do the unit strength strips as magnetic add ons?
@@Grumblerminiatures Yeah, pretty much, the cards are just the brigades of the 100 Days campaign, so as long as you know which brigade is which, I can't see an issue. They may well do, but I've never used them myself.
Yes and no, I decided that four battalions would show a normal strength brigade, three battalions an under strength one and five battalions an over strength one. The normal strength brigades look similar to the cards, but it wasnt intentional really.
Nice. How long did it take you to get to this standard? I've been at this a few years and am still pretty crap at painting. I blame my age, jittery hands, the cat etc.
Thanks for an excellent video. I have to paint some 10mm French Napoleonics for LaSalle rather than Blucher and was wondering if a similar painting technique would work at the slightly larger scale? Obviously basing would be different, but I am trying to figure out the paining methods. In particular I am a bit torn between black and white priming, the black certainly makes life a bit easier, but I am worried that the figures will come out too dark. Do you have any experience in painting 10mm or advice to offer?
Thank you, I am glad you liked the video. TBH I have never painted any 10mm figures, but I would probably use the same techniques as this. Black can be dark, but for things like the British redcoats, I would paint them with an undercoat of Tan Yellow which is good as an undercoat for the thin red paints.
Good to see the whole process. Having the painting platform, whether bottles or whatever really makes it so much easier. For tanks at this scale, I use old pencils stuck in Plasticine bases with blu tac on the (blunt) point to stick between the tracks. Any reason for doing the skin so early in the process? It doesn't get in the way when doing the jacket etc?
Thanks. There's no real reason for doing the skin early apart from giving a base colour to paint the red cuffs. You can do the colours in whatever order you like, this is what worked for me.
How did you manage the ratio of command strips to figures when bought from Baccus? Have you ended up with loads of unused infantry strips as your units are smaller and noticed you can't buy command strips on their own?
I've made changes without any problems, just asked for it in the notes when placing the order. I wanted more drummers, so I asked to only put command strips in; got exactly that, 24 of them, no line infantry. I love their customer service.
Great video. Thanks for posting. Can you tell me how did you do your labels on your Sally4th bases? I use the same bases and your labels look much nicer than the ones I created. I've tried using Excel to create template but it doesn't look as good as yours
Thanks Gary, I did the labels on Word, just by making a two row table with various columns. I then printed them and laminated them which really adds to the overall look
@@rookieboards5598 Here's a link to the files in Google drive, but for some reason they reformatted the tables. If you open the file as a word document, you should be able to change the settings: drive.google.com/file/d/1m9ZQ8UjK_kE4EP0hyeReIIFhRu6VfJEu/view?usp=sharing
I didnt do them by percentage, I found out the measurements for the flags in real life and scaled them in Paint.net so that the height matched the 6mm figures where 1mm equaled 1ft in real life. I can't remember how big the flags were off the top of my head, sorry
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Nice one. Good to be reminded about the 3ft rule. Ignoring it is what stopped me painting 6mm...
Cheers. I live by the 3ft rule, ESPECIALLY with 6mm. If you can paint buttons and straps on 28mm, you can paint 6mm, no bother.
@@StormofSteelWargaming It was when I found myself painting the piping on Prussian caps that I realised I'd missed the point...
Excellent tutorial & great results. I went from “so many boys painted in 2 hours you say?” to “oh but it’s still just one unit so there’s hundreds more!” :D
Thanks! Ha ha, yeah, but if you did individual battalions on bases, you'd four units in two hours!
This has inspired me to get out my own 6mm and 10mm and get to working.
Good man! The more the merrier!
Nice work. I paint my Irregular strips in a very similar way but I do the pants and jackets first then the hands and faces. The cuffs are great for fixing hands that are too big!
I paint the base brown. That way mistakes just look like mud 😁
Your finishes brigades look awesome 👏
Cheers, yeah, you can really fix mistakes pretty easily on 6mm. It's very forgiving as you're not looking at individual figures.
I like white glue for gluing minis to painting stands. Holds up better than blue tac, peels right off. Takes a while to dry though. This is a great tutorial on 6mm.
Yeah, I've tried it before, but have not been very successful. What works for you though! Thank you!
I use the white glue also, and cardboard from cereal boxes for painting strips.
Great video and thanks for doing this. You packed so much into this, it's a great tutorial for how to do this, and you make it look straightforward and very manageable.
I vote for a label making video too! I would really like to see how you did them!
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'll have a think about a label making video, if I can remember how I made them!
Fantastic that you did everything from start to finish including the label. Thanks
Glad you liked the video!
Happened upon your video when looking for some good tips on painting 6mm Napoleonics since I'm getting ready to move to this scale from 10mm. One bit I noticed missing was putting a dot of metallic paint for the shako plates which would be a good effect for this scale in my view. Thanks for taking the time to share your painting mechanics and style, and your basing technique.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it, putting a dot of brass on the shako depends if they are wearing shako covers or not, I suppose...
Since neither the shako plate nor the shako cover were mentioned in the video, it appeared to be an oversight worth mentioning. Most shako covers I've seen depicted are typically an off-white, beige, or brown color. Still, the informative value of your video stands on its own. Thanks again. @@StormofSteelWargaming
Looks awesome! Can't wait to see them in person!
Cheers Tim, not long to wait!
Very, very helpful and instructive. Thank you for making this great effort.
You're welcome!
great great, absolutely great tips and ideas, many thanks Sir
No worries, I am glad the video was useful!
I think since year about a 6mm Seven years war project but im old now and i dont paint nothing since 20 years.... So i need some tips and advice for try to start...im also colour blindness :-(
Thanks very good info for when i actually get my first figures delivered,, and will deffo follow your tips.. much appreciated :-D
Thank you, I hope this method works for you!
Great paint and basing tutorial.
Lovely.. 6mm is always tempting
Nice and quick with very good results.. Learnt a few tips from this thanks.
Thank you! Glad to be of service!
Great to see your process and an excellent result.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Some say it seems boring, I find it very very relaxing, akin to meditating... Wargaming Zen!
Would love to see you do a tutorial for Prussians
That would require me buying the Prussians... when I have I will do a similar video for them.
Looking great! I need to get back to painting my 6mm!
Cheers, I'm glad you liked the video.
Really enjoyed the video. They look great.
Glad you like them!
" when you're fighting Waterloo you'll find no one is looking at French crossbelts " ..... ahem.... I'll think you will find that.....
😂😂😂
Drop a bit of black paint into the PVA and you will have no trouble seeing it!
It'd be good to see these in the flesh (or should that be metal) one day, to compare against my own method. Your approach is definitely a lot faster than mine! I block in entire colours then use Army Painter to both shade and varnish, rather than the black undercoat method.
Thanks, yeah, as I was painting so many for the Waterloo project I needed a quick way of producing them that wouldn't send me mad...
Can you post some pics of yours please? I am interested in using army piano for her this and would like to see how it turns out in the end please and thank you!
That’s an amazing job mate.
Have you considered putting a layer of spakfilla down first then sticking the minis to the filla.
I find it works and is easier than trying to work around the miniatures.
I’ve never had any come off when stuck down into the filla.
Thank you! I have considered it, and it would be less work for sure, but I've always been afraid of just using the filla to hold the models. Maybe I'll try it when I get around to doing the Prussians...
@@StormofSteelWargaming this is the method I use, I think i've had to glue in maybe 2 or 3 figures out of the 500+ figures I did for my crimean war project.
Very nice
Thanks
Interesting vid. Do you ever get any warping issues? Or does the filler prevent that?
No, the MDF is too small to wrap and as you say, the pollyfilla will help hold the position anyway.
Very helpful indeed and maybe you mentioned this but are the bases the 3.5” or something different?
Thank you, yes the bases are 3.5 inches. Same size as the original cards.
Top work. The Blucher cards are not available at present. What size base do you use? I suppose the cards tell you what each brigade contains
Thanks! That's a shame, I'd keep an eye out at game shows as there are occasionally sets that turn up. The base is 3.5x2.5 inches, I get them from Sally 4th. The cards don't tell you what is in each brigade, I had to do that research from Mark Adkin's The Waterloo Companion which tells you the exact composition of each brigade and which units are present.
@@StormofSteelWargaming thank you. So I could start painting and basing now really.
I believe Sally 4th do the unit strength strips as magnetic add ons?
@@Grumblerminiatures Yeah, pretty much, the cards are just the brigades of the 100 Days campaign, so as long as you know which brigade is which, I can't see an issue. They may well do, but I've never used them myself.
Hi Alex, I have just started a 6mm project for use in DBN with stretch to allow me to play blucher as well. Interested to see you already play.
Cheers Lee, I've never had a chance to try out DBN, but have been aware of it for about twenty years... It should work well with 6mm I think.
HHave you tried to paint cross belts with Gelly Roll paint pens by Sakura. works great on 15mm
No, but thanks for the tip
I have a copy of Blucher rules on the way and a set of cards. Are you using the layout on the cards as a guide for your miniature basing?
Yes and no, I decided that four battalions would show a normal strength brigade, three battalions an under strength one and five battalions an over strength one. The normal strength brigades look similar to the cards, but it wasnt intentional really.
Nice. How long did it take you to get to this standard? I've been at this a few years and am still pretty crap at painting. I blame my age, jittery hands, the cat etc.
Thanks, I've been painting larger figures for over 30 years, but 6mm only in the last few years tbh. Just keep going, you'll get there.
@@StormofSteelWargaming I hope so ... they are awful at the moment! 😄
You'll get there, just remember it's not a contest and never judge yourself on other peoples standards. That way lies madness.
@@StormofSteelWargaming Already reached madness, I'm afraid. It's the glue, I think.
great Job
Thank you!
Did you paint the eagle on the tunic buttons ? Just askin’
Yep, of course.
Interesting vid👍👍
Thank you!
Thanks for an excellent video. I have to paint some 10mm French Napoleonics for LaSalle rather than Blucher and was wondering if a similar painting technique would work at the slightly larger scale? Obviously basing would be different, but I am trying to figure out the paining methods. In particular I am a bit torn between black and white priming, the black certainly makes life a bit easier, but I am worried that the figures will come out too dark. Do you have any experience in painting 10mm or advice to offer?
Thank you, I am glad you liked the video. TBH I have never painted any 10mm figures, but I would probably use the same techniques as this. Black can be dark, but for things like the British redcoats, I would paint them with an undercoat of Tan Yellow which is good as an undercoat for the thin red paints.
Good to see the whole process. Having the painting platform, whether bottles or whatever really makes it so much easier. For tanks at this scale, I use old pencils stuck in Plasticine bases with blu tac on the (blunt) point to stick between the tracks. Any reason for doing the skin so early in the process? It doesn't get in the way when doing the jacket etc?
Thanks. There's no real reason for doing the skin early apart from giving a base colour to paint the red cuffs. You can do the colours in whatever order you like, this is what worked for me.
Vallejo Game Beige Red is another good skin colour
Use whichever you think is best.
How did you manage the ratio of command strips to figures when bought from Baccus? Have you ended up with loads of unused infantry strips as your units are smaller and noticed you can't buy command strips on their own?
I just asked for the ratios in the packs to be changed from whatever they sell at to 3 to1 for my purposes. They were more than happy to oblige.
I've made changes without any problems, just asked for it in the notes when placing the order. I wanted more drummers, so I asked to only put command strips in; got exactly that, 24 of them, no line infantry. I love their customer service.
Great video. Thanks for posting. Can you tell me how did you do your labels on your Sally4th bases? I use the same bases and your labels look much nicer than the ones I created. I've tried using Excel to create template but it doesn't look as good as yours
Thanks Gary, I did the labels on Word, just by making a two row table with various columns. I then printed them and laminated them which really adds to the overall look
@@StormofSteelWargaming Could you share the files? Makes it easier for idiots like me :P
@@rookieboards5598 Here's a link to the files in Google drive, but for some reason they reformatted the tables. If you open the file as a word document, you should be able to change the settings: drive.google.com/file/d/1m9ZQ8UjK_kE4EP0hyeReIIFhRu6VfJEu/view?usp=sharing
@@StormofSteelWargaming My hero :D
@@StormofSteelWargaming Hello, I found this word document to excellent. Do you have one for the Allies?
I paint 6mm ancients
thank you.
You're welcome
These are the 3.5” wide bases, correct?
Yep
What percent did you print the flags at in order to get 6mm scale?
I didnt do them by percentage, I found out the measurements for the flags in real life and scaled them in Paint.net so that the height matched the 6mm figures where 1mm equaled 1ft in real life. I can't remember how big the flags were off the top of my head, sorry
@@StormofSteelWargaming That's cool, with the mm dimensions it'll be easy enough to scale. Thanks.
What games do you use 6mm troops for?
These are for Blucher, by Sam Mustafa.
@@StormofSteelWargaming do you play General d'armee?
Nope, but I am aware of it.
Where do you get the labels?
I made them.
@@StormofSteelWargaming well can you make a video showing how you made them?
@@Deli1321 no, cos I made them five years ago.
You carry the French flag with gloves, white gloves.
Well, if you can spot that in 6mm at over 3ft away, good luck to you.
@@StormofSteelWargaming ah ah :) just for information if you wanted to paint at the larger scale.
6mm, that's flea circus level. No thanks. 10mm is smallest I go.
Don't worry, no one is making you do anything you don't want to do.