The Nassauers are coming: 2/2nd and 3/2nd completed at last.

 

I finally got back to these two regiments which I finished painting a few years back and completed their bases. They are now table-top ready at long last.

I've posted about these two builds previously so I'll concern myself in these few lines with the basing and the photography. I don't rightly know why I based them differently from each other but one is on six-figure bases and the other is on eights. All are my universal 5mm MDF bases which I paint in my own mix of khaki green/brown.

I used the last of my Peco tufts and made hundreds of my own using various green blends of different lengths of static grass with my flock-box. I glue them down individually and in less regular clumps and then once fully dry, I apply clumps of loose static grass of a slightly lighter shade in between the tufts for a more complete coverage.

I applied yellow and white flower tufts as a final touch. I use these very sparingly and cut the manufactured tufts into many smaller segments as I find a little bit of this colour goes a very long way. 

I bought myself a sheet of grey cardboard for an alternative backdrop which I think works well and helps with my ambient light levels. I took these shots in my glass extension room when the sun was quite strong. I lit up the shoot with my portable led light rigs and am now controlling the real light instead of trying to adjust my camera settings.

I took the shots on the manual setting on my Canon digital SLR which takes raw exposures without filter settings. I tweaked some of the images by jacking the brightness by up to +20 in Photoshop. Personally, I am much, much happier with my results.
 

Together with my next post for the Hanoverian Landwehr this completes all the allied infantry for my Papelotte scenario project.