Paint Therapy needed

Yesterday was one of those days you wish you go back in time to avoid. I am still suffering the tail end of a sickness bug that leaves you drained physically and mentally, then this weekend my WW came down with it too so she was not in work on Monday. I had a pile of painting to complete and the Zulu war commission to varnish and post off. My FB friends will know whats coming (BTW if you are on FB feel free to send me a request) I varnished the figures first thing and went to get them after lunch only to find the varnish had gone cloudy. The rest of Monday was spent trying every trick I know to fix the error but with no success by evening I admitted defeat and contacted my customer, we have come to an agreement that I will not go into but I hope will be agreeable with both parties.
So today I could not face a commission so picked out one of my Copplestone Miniatures I am doing for Ebay and I spent a great few hours this evening painting this guy who is a NOT Brendon Frasier from the Mummy films. This guy and the Swede will be hitting Ebay tonight.

Bring on the Swede

When I started this guy I was thinking about the big guy of the squad in Clint Eastwoods Heartbreak Ridge.

So to me he is the Swede, just what every SWAT team needs some heavy support. This figure is from Foundry Miniatures Street Violence SWAT team but I think he would fit in as a survivor in a Zombie game. He is on his way to Ebay, had great fun painting him and am finding I can fit the odd single figure in alongside my commission works, so with that in mind I have picked up these great Sharpe Figures from Alban Miniatures which when completed will also wing their way to Ebay to fund my lead addiction.

I have finished my Zulu War commission, they will be varnished tomorrow and get packed up when that's dry. Customer is basing them so have stuck them to this board so they can be varnished.

Zulu War figures the Paints

I have been asked by my customer to let him know the paints used on his commission, I thought it would be fun to share it with you guys also. When I get round to painting my own Empress Miniatures Zulu War Brits I will do a true SBS with pictures but with commissions time is money so just the paints and a finished figure.
First up Flesh, the most involved process, Base flesh then flesh washed with flesh wash then flesh applied again final highlights with elf flesh.

Next up the uniform, Scab red base coat with red mid tone and then highlighted with one of those luckey errors you make, I needed terracotta colour for the Masai warriors and could not find my GW stuff I popped on to wayland games to order some Vallejo paint to use. I had to go by the colour tab on the website and picked the one that looked closed enough to terracotta when it came it was no where near the color I needed but I found it the best for highlighting red.

The trousers are Prussian blue then highlighted with Prussian blue mixed with a little blue.

Helmet is Khaki then washed with dark tone then over painted with the Khaki again.

The Webbing is a light Khaki base and an off white main color.

The last few paints are for the gun and to highlight the black areas.