Sunday, May 8, 2011

League of Augsberg (Pendraken 10mm)

Having finally finished my 28mm 18thC brigade for the WD3 battleday earlier this month I am now back into 10mm painting. I have primed my Virginian Continentals and on Saturday night painted all the flesh on them ready for a concerted assault on the painting task on Sunday. But this morning I couldn't help but look at the Pendraken League of Augsberg sampler pack and wonder what they would look like painted - so it looks like my Continentals will have to wait a week at least.

I'm seriously looking at League of Augsberg as one of my next projects so there was a point to this. I didn't pay too much attention to getting the uniforms right this time, I just used the photos from the latest edition of Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy as a rough guide.

My first impressions are that the figures are a delight to paint up. The sculpts from Clibinarium are crisp and well defined making them very easy to paint. The uniforms are very simple with plenty of opportunity to field brightly coloured units with long coats and large cuffs and lapels in attractive contrasting colours. One lesson learned though is that I'm not doing the Dutch - nice though they look, painting orange is a nightmare and I'm not really happy with the effect that I ended up with here.