Nice one. Good to be reminded about the 3ft rule. Ignoring it is what stopped me painting 6mm...

This has inspired me to get out my own 6mm and 10mm and get to working.

Fantastic that you did everything from start to finish including the label. Thanks

Excellent tutorial & great results. I went from “so many boys painted in 2 hours you say?” to “oh but it’s still just one unit so there’s hundreds more!” :D

Great video and thanks for doing this. You packed so much into this, it's a great tutorial for how to do this, and you make it look straightforward and very manageable. I vote for a label making video too! I would really like to see how you did them!

Looks awesome! Can't wait to see them in person!

I like white glue for gluing minis to painting stands. Holds up better than blue tac, peels right off. Takes a while to dry though. This is a great tutorial on 6mm.

Very, very helpful and instructive. Thank you for making this great effort.

Great to see your process and an excellent result.

Nice work. I paint my Irregular strips in a very similar way but I do the pants and jackets first then the hands and faces. The cuffs are great for fixing hands that are too big! I paint the base brown. That way mistakes just look like mud 😁 Your finishes brigades look awesome 👏

Nice and quick with very good results.. Learnt a few tips from this thanks.

Looking great! I need to get back to painting my 6mm!

Really enjoyed the video. They look great.

Great paint and basing tutorial.

Lovely.. 6mm is always tempting

Thanks very good info for when i actually get my first figures delivered,, and will deffo follow your tips.. much appreciated :-D

great great, absolutely great tips and ideas, many thanks Sir

Happened upon your video when looking for some good tips on painting 6mm Napoleonics since I'm getting ready to move to this scale from 10mm. One bit I noticed missing was putting a dot of metallic paint for the shako plates which would be a good effect for this scale in my view. Thanks for taking the time to share your painting mechanics and style, and your basing technique.

Some say it seems boring, I find it very very relaxing, akin to meditating... Wargaming Zen!

Interesting vid. Do you ever get any warping issues? Or does the filler prevent that?

great Job

Interesting vid👍👍

Very nice

Thanks for an excellent video. I have to paint some 10mm French Napoleonics for LaSalle rather than Blucher and was wondering if a similar painting technique would work at the slightly larger scale? Obviously basing would be different, but I am trying to figure out the paining methods. In particular I am a bit torn between black and white priming, the black certainly makes life a bit easier, but I am worried that the figures will come out too dark. Do you have any experience in painting 10mm or advice to offer?

Good to see the whole process. Having the painting platform, whether bottles or whatever really makes it so much easier. For tanks at this scale, I use old pencils stuck in Plasticine bases with blu tac on the (blunt) point to stick between the tracks. Any reason for doing the skin so early in the process? It doesn't get in the way when doing the jacket etc?

Would love to see you do a tutorial for Prussians

That’s an amazing job mate. Have you considered putting a layer of spakfilla down first then sticking the minis to the filla. I find it works and is easier than trying to work around the miniatures. I’ve never had any come off when stuck down into the filla.

Very helpful indeed and maybe you mentioned this but are the bases the 3.5” or something different?

It'd be good to see these in the flesh (or should that be metal) one day, to compare against my own method. Your approach is definitely a lot faster than mine! I block in entire colours then use Army Painter to both shade and varnish, rather than the black undercoat method.

Drop a bit of black paint into the PVA and you will have no trouble seeing it!

Top work. The Blucher cards are not available at present. What size base do you use? I suppose the cards tell you what each brigade contains

thank you.

Great video. Thanks for posting. Can you tell me how did you do your labels on your Sally4th bases? I use the same bases and your labels look much nicer than the ones I created. I've tried using Excel to create template but it doesn't look as good as yours

How did you manage the ratio of command strips to figures when bought from Baccus? Have you ended up with loads of unused infantry strips as your units are smaller and noticed you can't buy command strips on their own?

" when you're fighting Waterloo you'll find no one is looking at French crossbelts " ..... ahem.... I'll think you will find that.....

I have a copy of Blucher rules on the way and a set of cards. Are you using the layout on the cards as a guide for your miniature basing?

Hi Alex, I have just started a 6mm project for use in DBN with stretch to allow me to play blucher as well. Interested to see you already play.

Nice. How long did it take you to get to this standard? I've been at this a few years and am still pretty crap at painting. I blame my age, jittery hands, the cat etc.

Did you paint the eagle on the tunic buttons ? Just askin’

What percent did you print the flags at in order to get 6mm scale?

HHave you tried to paint cross belts with Gelly Roll paint pens by Sakura. works great on 15mm

Vallejo Game Beige Red is another good skin colour

What games do you use 6mm troops for?

These are the 3.5” wide bases, correct?

I paint 6mm ancients

Where do you get the labels?

You carry the French flag with gloves, white gloves.

6mm, that's flea circus level. No thanks. 10mm is smallest I go.