Quick & Easy: Painting Napoleonic French - Tabletop Ready & Beyond [How I Paint Things]
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 Published On Apr 21, 2023

Eventually, once you've been collecting and painting miniatures long enough, you'll almost certainly end up painting some French infantry for the Napoleonic period. They're a mainstay of many collections, and the siren call of the bright, stunning uniforms of the 19th Century gets to us all sooner or later!

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00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Priming
01:44 - Basecoats
08:35 - Shading
10:01 - Highlights
14:09 - The Finished Fusilier

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THE BASE: PVA and a rocky sand mix - this is 'Army Coarse' from WWS. Cover with thinned down Brown Sand from Vallejo, drybrush with Tyrant Skull and add tiny dots of PVA before sprinkling static grass under rocks and into crevices.

PRIMER:
White Scar (Citadel Spray Primer)

CITADEL:
Gore-Grunta Fur (Contrast)
Garaghak's Sewer (Contrast)
Cadian Fleshtone (Layer)
Black Legion (Contrast)
Evil Sunz Scarlet (Layer)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
White Scar (Layer)
Skeleton Horde (Contrast)
Liberator Gold (Layer)
'Marine Juice' - Nuln Oil, Reikland Fleshshade, Lahmian Medium
Kislev Flesh (Layer)
Carroburg Crimson (Shade)
Flayed One Flesh (Layer)
Apothecary White (Contrast)
Reikland Fleshshade (Shade)
Stormvermin Fur (Layer)
Wild Rider Red (Layer)

VALLEJO:
Dark Prussian Blue
Off-White
Medium Grey
Sky Blue
Prussian Blue

ARMY PAINTER:
Toxic Boil

VARNISH:
Matt Varnish Spray (Army Painter)

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