Saturday 18 July 2015

Portuguese 3rd/1st Olivenza Regiment

I was a little worried about painting this regiment as, being part of the Portuguese Northern Division, it has yellow piping:


















(along with the yellow regimental flag carried by the second battalion):
























This is because I have not yet found a yellow that I am completely happy with. I usually use the Foundry triad sets for most of my figures, and their yellow is not a problem if there is a large area to be block painted as it is quite easy to build up a fairly solid yellow with successive coats, but I wasn't looking forward to potentially having to go over the piping four times to obtain a bit of depth. In the end I managed to get away with a brown undercoat and a single layer of GW Yellow for most of it, with an additional layer on the more exposed or highlighted bits:
























The 3rd Regiment were pretty much a constant throughout the Peninsular War and were in Spry's brigade at the key battles of Fuentes d'Onoro, Salamanca and Vittoria. Again, I chose to do the bulk of the figures in the white summer campaign trousers, rather than the dark blue regulation or winter issue:
























That is eight line battalions completed to date, with another ten from a further five regiments to go.

6 comments:

  1. Excellent work Lawrence! Your Portuguese 3rd/1st Olivenza Regiment looks great to me, one can see the yellow pipping of the uniforms on your figures not a problem. I like your painting style and dedication to complete your Napoleonic projects, where as I struggle with my.. looking forward to your next painted regiment - 10 more battalions/5 Regiments..Awesome!

    cheers,

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    1. Thanks Phil. It probably seems a little obsessive, but the truth is that once I have "absorbed" the details of each nation's uniforms I prefer to see the project through to completion, as I know if I leave it for a year or two I will have forgotten most of it.

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  2. Another beautiful addition to your units, these Portuguese batalions are fantastic, excellent job and great flags...

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    1. Cheers Phil, and I do find it difficult to go past GMB flags (although the Maverick Models and Adolfo Ramos flags I have used on occasion have been very good).

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  3. Wonderful Portuguese regiment - 10 m,ore battalions to go - Egads! :-)

    I do understand what you mean about the various uniform details fading in your mind when you haven't been painting a given nation for a while, however!

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    1. Thanks Peter, although that seems almost moderate compared to your magnificent recent effort with the Prussians for your Ligny refight.

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