Le Hussard Sous Le Toit

Thanks! I didn’t feel very nice when I dropped the horseman on its head on some white oil paint on the palette. It flows everywhere when cleaned with white spirit. Oh well, live and learn.

10.04.2025 04:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! They were a pleasure the paint. After painting goblins it was also fun to get to use a lot of gold paint.

10.04.2025 04:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finished the @brigadegames.bsky.social French ADC’s tonight! The uniform research for these two was pretty challenging, but ADC’s seemed to have quite a bit of freedom when it came to their uniforms anyway.
#spreadthelard #wargaming #MiniaturesPainting

09.04.2025 19:03 — 👍 52    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Also WIP: a pair of ADC’s to be used as a Sharp Practice deployment marker. Wonderful figures sculpted by @hicksy.bsky.social from @brigadegames.bsky.social. Base colours painted with acrylic colours, next stop: oil washes.

05.04.2025 10:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…so I decided to make them out of plasticard, tiny chain and ropes twisted from thin steel wire. What a nerve-wracking experience that has been! I don’t yet know how to get all this painted and based and still have some sanity remaining.

05.04.2025 10:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A couple of WIP shots after a three-month hobby hiatus. It’s great to be painting again!
The Perry 4-pounder avant-train doesn’t have any parts for connecting the front pair of horses to anything…
#MiniaturesPainting #Spreadthelard #perryminiatures #wargaming

05.04.2025 10:29 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Are there major improvements to way things play out compared to the later HeroQuest editions? I’d imagine the basic structure of the rules is so robust and simple that there won’t be a lot of (any?) conversion work needed to update the existing material.

19.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have some questions about this new game Ian. I’ve run a long HeroQuest campaign, started during the first edition with the Orlanth / Red Goddess books. We’ve gone through all the editions and now I’m interested in Questworlds.

19.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The steel sheet is quite slippery and a bit of sanding of the bottom of the horse bases prevents from sliding around too much.
#wargaming
#spreadthelard

19.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

PVA glue, DAS clay, more glue and aquarium sand are used to cover the bases of the horses.
The sabot base has small strips of styrene on the edges. Edges are covered with whatever covers them and sand is glued on top.

19.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The steel rectangle is glued to the plastic base, the horses are glued to their bases and the 5 mm magnets are glued in the holes. I used two 3 mm magnets on the previous dragoons but they don’t really feel quite strong enough.

19.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

First I cut a 100 x 60 mm plastic base and a slightly smaller steel rectangle. The horses will be mounted on 20 x 50 mm bases with 6 mm holes punched in places where the integral bases of the horses will cover the holes.

19.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here’s how I make sabot bases for my #sharppractice cavalry. I use 1 mm styrene sheet, thin steel plate and neodymium magnets.

19.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

They are really nice figures! Although painting the reins was my least favourite part of the process…

17.11.2024 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also two cows by Warlord Games. I like oil paints for large surfaces, but they give a bit of a shine which the camera & lighting accentuates.

17.11.2024 17:13 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My first finished figures after a two year break in painting - quite a relief to get something finally done! I’m slowly building a Napoleonic Sharp Practice project. Wagon by Perry Miniatures, escorted by dragoons by @hicksy.bsky.social.
Painted with acrylics and oils.
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#spreadthelard

17.11.2024 17:13 — 👍 49    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Great work! Can you please add me.

14.11.2024 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0