I painted a couple of Carlist guns recently to give the rebels a bit of firepower. This is the first set, a 3-pounder mountain gun. As I noted in the previous post, the Carlists' artillery arm was inferior to that of the Isabelinos. The Carlists relied upon captured pieces and guns that they could eventually cast themselves. There are a couple of conflicting references for the uniform, and I chose to go with grey frock-coats and blue berets. The grey I used for the frock-coats is a new Foundry palette (for me, at any rate), "Rebel Grey 118". Out of the two greys in the Foundry ACW paint set, "Rebel Grey" is a proper "grey", whereas "Confederate Grey 117" comes out with a distinctly blue tinge. That's not a problem for FCW painting, as I intend to use "Confederate Grey" for the French Foreign Legion's overcoats. For the mule, I used Foundry "Quagmire 63" to create a grey dun. Vines in the middle background are from Murray Bridge Trees & Terrain. Not much else to say, really!
4 figures and a mule. Painted January 2012.
Fantastic! Especially love the donkey!
ReplyDeleteVery nice Giles!
ReplyDeleteI really like these and the artillery sets in transit.
ReplyDeleteSuperb paint job as always.
Thanks also for the info on the Foundry greys as the confederate blue grey will now be on my shopping list.
Superb stuff, yet again, Giles! I really enjoy your work and your Blog! Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteSorry Giles, somehow I missed this post. Very very nice work on these guys!
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get the mule from - I have to thank you for the reenactors postings on your blog they helped me with a project for school. to bad some of the organizations are no longer up and running. I have a special Generalissmo command figure riding a donkey courtesy of some Scottish friends for my Spanish forces.
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