With March came the relief that painting for the Pendraken
painting competition was over and I celebrated by having a go
at painting some Pendraken Austrian gunners without the
pressure of having to be judged by the unforgiving camera lens.
There are only four Pendraken Austrian artillery-crew figures.
One of them is the officer that I converted (see Post 44) and
painted as an infantry officer (see Post 49). It’s a nice figure but,
unfortunately, it means there are only three gunners doing the
dirty work. Worryingly, there’s no one with a match to fire the
cannon when the officer brings down his raised hand, shouting,
“Feuer!”
The mid-brown ‘roe-deer brown’ of Austrian artillery jackets is
another of those much debated Napoleonic colours. I found my
burnt umber wash over a khaki spay (see Post 29) a good
enough match without doing much more. Otherwise,
Foundry’s Spearshaft 13 paint palette was at hand for any
additional painting.
I painted the rosettes fully yellow but they should have had a
black trim. At this scale the trim being the same colour as the
hat, it could look a bit messy. However, I planned to
experiment with future gunners, perhaps using a dark grey for
the trim. The shoulder straps were brown piped with red.
There wasn’t a lot of room to accomplish the paint-job on every
strap. I found an orange-brown strap was a good compromise
where space was tight.
RIGHT The four Pendraken Austrian artillery crewmen.
Pendraken Austrian Gunners
POST 75
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