Wednesday 23 April 2014

Spanish Generals

I managed to complete the last of my 28mm Spanish figures over the Easter weekend, in the form of half a dozen Spanish generals and aides-de-camp:



















I decided to put them on circular bases, mainly for stability but am quite pleased with the contrast between these and the rectangular bases which I have used for the rest of the army.



















I particularly like the way the figure on the right turned out. He just seemed to "emerge" and ended up looking like a Guard or Swiss officer, which wasn't actually planned when work commenced on him:



















I am probably a little less happy with the way figure on the left (below) turned out however, in that I accidentally used some very Christmassy-looking colours. I started to give him gold lace, but it began to feel too much like adding tinsel to a Christmas tree so I ended up giving him plain white piping:



















That said, I found it rather amusing to position him in such a way as to appear that he is trying to ignore the orders being handed to him by the ADC. Unfortunately, Front Rank don't have a Spanish officer figure which is looking toward their left, so it was inevitable I suppose...

That's my Spanish 28mm project completed. I'll probably try to put together one final post on these as a fully assembled army (before I move on to some 15mm Portuguese) - mainly for my own amusement but also, hopefully, that of others who may be interested.

6 comments:

  1. Hi Lawrence. Easter is a time for resting anyway! Great job on these chaps. You can never have enough staff figures.

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    1. Thanks Brian. I actually managed to get a bit of gardening done as well, so I probably managed to fit more in over Easter than I realised.

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  2. Good stuff. I can't imagine a Spanish officer wearing a garrish uniform... or ignoring an annoying ADC! :-)

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    1. Cheers Peter. I think it still looks remotely believable, but it was definitely heading off the rails at one point until I started to exercise a bit more restraint!

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  3. Very nice work, love these command stands!

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    1. Thanks Phil. I wish I had done a few more, but given they will be alongside my British most of the time there should hopefully be enough.

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