Sash & Saber 40mm Spanish Guerillas

 

Theresa "The Needle" leads here band of guerrillas into the town of Montego.

I have been basing the 40mm figures for my Richard Sharpe skirmish game and now have the Spanish guerrillas ready for their photo shoot. Nearly all of the figures are from the Sash & Saber 40mm Napoleonic figure range. The characters representing Sharpe's wife, Theresa, and Sharpe's nemesis, Major Pierre Ducos, are from the Steve Barber range of 40mm Napoleonic figures.

Here they are, below, with the backdrop provided by the 40mm Battle Honours range of 3D printed buildings.

The Spanish figures have a lot of variety and character to them and I found them to be very much fun to paint. I wanted to have a lot of variety in the clothing colors so I sorted the figures into three batches and applied similar colors to each batch. For example, one batch of six figures might have three wearing dark green coats and three wearing dark green trousers. The next batch of six figures might have brown as the common color (three brown coats and three brown trousers). The third and final batch were predominantly grey in color. 

Then I would go back to each batch and add a second color. The green batch would see the green coats getting buff trousers or vests; the brown batch getting some blue or grey; etc. Next I would take some grey/white colors and use them in all three batches. At the end of the day you wind up with no two figures having all of the same colored clothing items.

Once the basic colors were blocked in I started adding a highlight color to each figure, although in some cases I left well enough alone and kept the shade color "as is".

When I paint figures, after applying the basic colors, I then open up the jar of black paint and paint all of the equipment bits (cartridge pouches, belts, muskets, pole arms, water bottles, etc.) black because it is a color that is a good foundation for some of the darker colors such as brown, grey, blue and green, and of course, gun metal and bayonets.

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