ROMANIAN INFANTRY RTW: WORK IN PROGRESS

For starters: white primed and then paint bases, faces, hair, boots, and trousers.

Greetings, fellow shut-ins.  In this post, we continue on our Balkan pathways, returning to the Romanians of the Russo-Turkish War.  Taking advantage (if you can call it that) of the long term continuation of social isolation and working from home, I have embarked on the largest painting project I have ever attempted: Forty-five infantry figures and eleven specialty figures (!).  I have been on this project for the last two weeks, but am on track (fingers crossed) to have them done by this weekend.  Although daunting (for me), I figured this was a unique opportunity to tackle this part of the Romanian pile en-masse. I also figured that doing them together would be needed to render a consistent look. As usual, you may clix pix for BIG PIX in this post.  Doing a large project like this deepens my admiration for fellow bloggists like Mark N and Stokes, who do such wonderful paint jobs on large figure count projects like this routinely: I doff my brush in respect.

 French-inspired Romanian Line Infantry Uniform.  At a glance, fairly simple, but closer inspection shows that it is more involved, particularly the piping and number of details on the headgear.  Figures are from Outpost Wargame Service (acquired through Badger Games in the US).

Next Step: paint coats, highlight coats, highlight trousers, and then do trouser stripes.

Musicians and leaders done: on large projects, I finish the specialty figures ahead of the rest. This interim milestone gives me a boost and also gets me familiar with the figures and the color palette, which helps when next shifting to the assembly-line work of the other figures.

Some of the piping detail work (repeat x45). 

Equipment, done: working my way up to the headgear. Not yet cleaned up, but getting there...

 ...the entire batch, marching towards completion.

Excelsior!