Warlord Games Epic Battles Waterloo - Highlanders Painting Tutorial

Warlord Games Epic Battles Waterloo - Highlanders Painting Tutorial
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[@christianzotter4224]

Outstanding! Bravo!

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊

[@williambodin5359]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

😂 It’s not quite as painful as it looks

[@jmaccsarmiesofmiddleearth]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

😂 Cheers mate

[@NSYresearch]

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]

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

[@MuseBlinkGreenDay]

Great stuff! Will all look good on the board

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Michael

[@leont66wargaming31]

Excellent mate. I’ll definitely copy the tartan.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers mate 🙂

[@norm977]

Superbly done.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers Norm 😊

[@stevenhombrados1530]

Wow! Marvelous work!

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊

[@joeswift403]

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]

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

[@petersouthall6699]

Thanks!

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you very much 😊

[@gregorjohnston3515]

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]

Thank you Gregor

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

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

[@needlesbeckett]

Amazing 🎉

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊

[@matthewwheelden9263]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Matthew

[@paulparker5456]

Well done Stuart. Marvellous as usual.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Paul 😊

[@nickhindley4295]

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]

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.

[@garybramley9868]

Amazing brushwork as usual.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Gary

[@paintingpanzers]

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]

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

[@CTID-9320]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊

[@craigcameron3378]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Craig 😊

[@Edward-Plantagenet]

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]

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.

[@warpaint9385]

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]

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.

[@ath3lwulf533]

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]

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

[@caffracer7196]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

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

[@karlhulme8014]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@weregeniegaming]

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]

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.

[@fogh]

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]

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

[@vonketteringham]

Bit small for my tired eyes but a great vid👍

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers mate

[@jackk4027]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

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

[@jackk4027]

@@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]

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

[@Shemzu]

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

[@MiniatureRealms]

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]

@@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]

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