Another three hours done tonight

Finished the muskets for both militia regiments.....used the brown foundation paint (Games Workshop) and mithril silver (also GW).....with hindsight, I need a different brown, so the next batch of regiments will have a different brown tested on them - also, will rethink mithril silver as its too bright but gunbolt metal is too dull.

Managed also to paint the hats for one of the regiments using leather brown (vallejo) for the round hats, and a dead white (also vallejo) mix with leather brown for the tricorne style hats.

Up until I started the hats, I had completely failed to spot the variety in my strips for each infantry - obviously I could spot the command strips but the non-command strips are not all the same, which is a shame I had failed to spot it before, as instead of painting the tunics of all figures on the strip the same colour, I could had tailored it to the type of hat worn - it would have had created the look of a non-uniform regiment far better - another lesson also for the next set of regiments I do....take a proper look at the figures....duh!

So, these two regiments have taken me six hours to do....felt I got more done in the second three hour session, which might mean I am already start to speed up.....we can hope.