A Test Figure

 For my new semi-imaginations project, which I've entitled Tales from Pendawar, I have done something I don't usually do even for a new venture. I've painted just one figure as a test piece, a Bombay Sepoy from Perry Miniatures' British figures in the Napoleon in Egypt range. After spending so long with bronze during the past eight months or so it seemed a prudent thing to do in order to break certain habits I may have acquired and to reset my painting techniques, particularly in respect of the sequence of colour application ~

When you see your own work enlarged, at least for me, it highlights all the faults you just don't notice either when painting or when gaming with them. I tend not to worry too much now myself, I've no pretention to be anything other than a 'wargamer who paints'. What I can say is that the flesh is lighter than it looks in the picture, but otherwise it's a decent image of the finished figure. Hand and eye, at over 70, are doing the best they can so it will have to do for me. I've three more underway to complete the first base, by which time I'd hope to have established the painting rythem for the E.I.C. Native Infantry. That in itself should then easily run into the two European battalions, one the Pendawar Fusiliers, the other the 38th Foot, the Staffordshire Regiment. We shall have to see... In the meantime another Sepoy battalion and a battalion of Bombay Grenadiers, together with two guns and crew for the E.I.C. are enroute from Perry Miniatures.