Detailed tartans on 13mm figures. 240 of them!?!? You're nuts! I love it but you're nuts.

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

😂 It’s not quite as painful as it looks

Great stuff! Will all look good on the board

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael

Outstanding! Bravo!

@MiniatureRealms

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Superbly done.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Norm 😊

Back in the 1990s I worked at a job where our chef pants were red and white check....from any distance they looked a light red/pink.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

They sound fantastic, I’ve worked a couple of places with questionable uniform choices.

Excellent mate. I’ll definitely copy the tartan.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate 🙂

Wow! Marvelous work!

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

As a Scot I feel ashamed to admit I hate painting kilts. They look ace man.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

😂 Cheers mate

Great inspiration for me to get my kilts painted, seems a little less daunting now. One thing to try with the checkered bands might be to go with a dress makers pin and dotting the paint. My hand wasn't steady enough to go with stripes but the dots work nicely

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes a dress pin might work very well, small point coloured Sharpie pens would be good as well.

Great tutorial. Was waiting on this one! Have already started the Gordons and am more confident with trying the tartan as the tutorial is so helpful.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gregor

Very good indeed, impressive. Now all I need to do is work out how to do this with my 6mm Highland Brigade ...

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂 I think with 6mm you’re definitely allowed to leave off the tartan 😂

Excellent tutorial as always. Just started a unit of Camerons in 28mm. Tartan tips very helpful.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matthew

Thanks!

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 😊

Amazing 🎉

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Well done Stuart. Marvellous as usual.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul 😊

Awesome very clear, I can see what you have done, doing it will be fun.... Many thanks for making the most complex jobs look at least possibly doable.

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick, it was certainly easier than I thought it would be, and at this scale there’s lots of room for doing some appropriate marks to represent the tartan over actually trying to paint it.

Wonderful tutorial as always, I’m going to wait until my painting skills are much better before attempting these bad boys. 😊

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Amazing brushwork as usual.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary

Absolutely superb! I really like your technique for painting the kilts. I need to get my hands on some of those contrast paints, they looked excellent.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate. They’re pretty useful for base coating over the right kind of prime, and make great glazes.

Excellent tutorial, so helpful for someone who is artistically-challenged ;)

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Craig 😊

Brilliant video. When I eventually get round to painting my Epic (that have just been bumped AGAIN, by Black Seas this time) I'll use your ideas as a foundation for how to tackle the tartan, I have a few other ideas I plan to try too (using very fine gel pens) but at this scale it's easy for theories to turn to disaster. At first I planned to just do them all with green and blue stripes but your examples show its definitely worth going for an extra bit of detail.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊. Pens are a great idea, I’ve got some to play around with (maybe for marks on the socks and bearskin brims), I found the brush easier for the kilts.

Good tutorial and they look great….but looking at the kilts with just a basic coat of green….I’m thinking that may very well be good enough given the scale and quantity of the miniatures involved. Maybe I’m just being lazy.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and you’re totally right, leaving them plain green would look totally fine at this scale (any scale really, especially if it’s about getting them on the table to play).

@miketike3246

2 жыл бұрын

No, that's not lazy at all! Having the experience of painting the entire mega bundle of the Civil War epic scale, I can tell you it is amazing what you can get away with in this scale. Stewart is of course doing a fabulous job on these, as always! But you are quite correct about the tiny details. Stew has an excellent camera and his closeups clearly show the amount of effort he puts into the detail. But when I got my Civil War on the tabletop, it really hit home how small the scale really is. A lot of the finer equipment details I painted couldn't even be picked out by the eye. And it seemed even more so when I painted my first battalions of Waterloo Epic. I discovered that at tabletop height, the British line and French line look VERY similar, sometimes to the point of having difficulty telling them apart, only the flags giving them away. However, collectively your eye does pick up on the tiny amounts of red on the British and the tiny amounts of blue on the French. It's a "collective pop" to the eye. For units like these Highlanders, a detail has to be at least as big enough to differentiate the shape from tabletop height. The ostrich feather hats are the ONE detail that is big enough and differently shaped from the usual shakos enough to be noticed on the table. Also the green of the kilts. Collectively it's different enough from the gray trousers of the line units. If not for those larger details, this unit would hopelessly blend in with the rest of the British army at this scale. In my long-winded way, I'm basically saying that in this scale you really don't have to go beyond basic, blocked colors. They'll be totally effective on the tabletop. Everything Stewart doing is a wonderful visual bonus for sure! But you can stop quite a bit earlier and they'll still look great.

@karlhulme8014

2 жыл бұрын

@@miketike3246 thanks for your input. When I finally get around to starting I’m now convinced this will be my choice for the highlanders.

The more I see this range painted the more I’m getting the “I wants”. I shouldn’t, I’ve got heaps of 28mm Napoleonic’s still to paint. These just give the look of a grand scale like it should be. You don’t really get that from 28mm when your doing only 24 figures a regiment, 12 for Cavalry.

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what got me sucked in, they’ve done something with the overall visuals that I’ve not seen in other games. Even in smaller scales it’s not always matched, most often too few miniatures on a stand to look like massed troops, but Warlord’s stands of 20 men in tight ranked strips of 10 just seems to achieve it. There are issues with it for sure, unit frontages are a little large, and some have cut the bases in half and use less to help this, but as long as you still have 60+ men in tight ranks it looks awesome.

might be a bit late but for the tartans i used a very fine filter mesh sheet just cut it to a size you are comfortable holding, dabbed it in a color i wanted and using the rubber end of a pencil gently pressed on the tartan, then repeated over it with a different color. would also suggest if you try this you use something like a ink and not a acrylic paint.

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

That sounds really interesting, I’d love to see the results.

Bit small for my tired eyes but a great vid👍

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Great stuff, Stuart. Very tricky to do in any miniature scale, I think, but these look great! 👍 Was it just me, or was there a bag-pipe theme to the background music in that one? 😀

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and good ears, my editing software has a suit of music and sound effects, I thought this music was fitting 😂

Hey Stuart, for the Tartan did you ever consider a thin wash of the secondary color, e.g. the blue? Then crosshatch yellow and red lines. I am still waiting for my order to arrive, when it does I am tempted to wash the green with Ultramarine Blue (or equivalent) and then paint the yellow and red. I'll post it up when I get it done, unless it looks like crap, in which case, forget I ever mentioned it. LOL.

@MiniatureRealms

Жыл бұрын

That might work, I find at this scale sometimes anything ‘too subtle’ just doesn’t show up. But saying that I don’t think it would look bad, would love to hear how you get on.

Great vid, really helpful 👍 What is it you’re using to hold the miniatures while you’re painting them?

@MiniatureRealms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂. It’s a Redgrass Games painting handle, I’ve found them in most larger hobby stores and Amazon.

Great video! What are your thoughts/experience with using a .05mm pen for tartans?

@MiniatureRealms

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I think they’re ok to use, but I find a paintbrush much much easier.

@jackk4027

7 ай бұрын

@@MiniatureRealms fair enough. Maybe I should focus on my painting skill, though I might give it a test with the micron pen and do a comparison. I wonder how pen would sit/last on base paint too?

@MiniatureRealms

7 ай бұрын

@jackk4027 A permanent one should last well enough, but a light coat of matt varnish will help.

Hey mate. Just curious. What colour yellow did you use for the cuffs.

@MiniatureRealms

7 ай бұрын

Now that’s testing the memory without watching the video. I expect either Contrast Nazdreg yellow with a highlight of something like flat yellow from Vallejo Model Colour, or straight Contradt Iyanden yellow.

@Shemzu

7 ай бұрын

@@MiniatureRealms Cheers. Doing all 3 Highlanders for a big Waterloo event in 2025. Love the yellow, so thought I'll ask. I'm also doing I Corps 1st, 3rd Division and 3rd Netherlands Division. So alot of painting to do, lol

@MiniatureRealms

7 ай бұрын

@Shemzu That’s quite a bit, will definitely keep you busy 😂