Republique of France Colour Scheme Database

[doubleones 254]

A "Dread"-ful update.

 

I finished my Charlemagne a couple of months ago and my Vauban just a couple of days ago.

 

 

 

 

[doubleones 254]

Some Belgian allies for the French!

 

 

 

 

The camouflage colors were inspired by very old Belgian tanks, with the dark red on the Liege an obvious nod to my French land forces. I like these models a lot and hope to put them on the table soon!

[Nicius 298]

I've almost completed my repaint of my French fleet from the two tone standard colour scheme to a traditional victorian black scheme. Below are some examples:

 

St Malo

 

My twin Tourbilions on an attack run

 

and finally a Couronne, Ecuyver and Cherbourg being repainted:

 

[varnos 277]

I really dig that St. Malo, Nicius! The dark, silver and brown works really well!

[Nicius 298]

Thanks, I really like how it turned out. This ship is my standard french flagship when I don't bring a Vauban (which is the only model which has a red/blue color scheme in my fleet, but I figured Vaubans would be special ships anyway). The St Malo is one of my favourite DW models.

[McKinstry 322]

Nice job on the Victorian scheme. It really suits the French.

[Nicius 298]

thanks. I really like how it turned out. I've always liked the weird shapes of the french battleships pre-WW1 and pre-Dreadnought. Since the DW french navy is styled of some of these old ships I thought it fitting to paint them accordingly.

I tend to settle on somewhat realistic paint schemes anyway, my Prussian Navy being a dark grey, the French black and my American fleet is light grey.

[doubleones 254]

I've finished up the Madame Liberte that I picked up half-price a little over a month ago. Given that there was a lot of Christmas/Thanksgiving/Other stuff going on, I'm surprised I finished it so quickly. The statue is magnetized to the hover base and the arm also has a magnet at the shoulder. I went with a combined red/white/blue for the lower section to tie it together with all of my other French forces.

 

 

 

 

Now, for what people are really interested in... how big is it, really?

Next to a Vauban and a Metzger. Two big models if there ever were.

 

The Lady is just a bit taller than a Metzger.

 

Bird's eye so you can really judge mass. The Vauban is freaking enormous but the base on the Statue is ridiculous.

[McKinstry 322]

The verdigris over bronze is brilliantly done. How did you do it and what paints did you use?

[doubleones 254]

2 hours ago, McKinstry said:

The verdigris over bronze is brilliantly done. How did you do it and what paints did you use?

Thanks! I started with Vallejo Old Gold over the whole thing. Then just a thin, but thicker than a wash, coat of white mixed with a little bit of green and blue. You're looking for a pale mint green color that's thin enough to let the gold show through but that won't pool up and run like a wash would. Here's a great tutorial for Verdigris paiinting: http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1662-verdigris

[greg 56]

Here's my theme - I wanted to go with Republique red, white and blue but in a more understated way. So Ive gone mainly white ships/skimmers and red flyers with red/white trim + blue windows. Metallics are almost all "dirty" gold with a little silver trim

 

close up of ships

 

flier closeup

[Marden 42]

Impressive Greg, it look both clean and elegant, I'm particularly fond of the heavy bomber.

Here's a Gascony mk1, flagship of my french flotilla with a more conventional grey and blue scheme.

[VladTepes 6]

On 09/07/2017 at 5:13 PM, greg said:

Here's my theme - I wanted to go with Republique red, white and blue but in a more understated way. So Ive gone mainly white ships/skimmers and red flyers with red/white trim + blue windows. Metallics are almost all "dirty" fold with a little silver trim

Masterfully done!

I love the color scheme and the painting.