Galloping Major Wargames

More Mohawk and first Canadian Militia from Derek Richardson's collection

Mohawk Painted by Simon Nicholls

Simon recently fielded his Mohawk war band for the first time against his opponent's French using Sharp Practice skirmish rules. The cabin is from Grand Manner.

Painted by Christophe Coquet

Rangers painted as both Rogers' and Gorham's Rangers, commissioned for VaeVictis Magazine and reproduced by kind permission of the Editor. See the Painting Guides page.

French Canadian Militia Painted by Orctrader

I didn't do any research other than read "The Majors" painting guide on this very site.

Good, clean sculpts with enough detail to make the painting "interesting."

I used as many varied colours as I could get away with and used the blue caps to tie the group together as a unit. Some freehand designs, but kept it quite minimal. 25mm metal bases with some grass tufts and autumn leaves to finish. All in all, tremendous fun to paint.

See more of my painting here. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/orctrader

Painted by Derek Richardson

"The Mohawks were undercoated white, then a thin dark wash put all over the model to bring out the details. The skin tone was achieved by a coat of GW "Dark Flesh" then thin lighter tones of GW "Dwarf Flesh" with a few washes in between to darken everything down. The clothes were mostly painted with a mixture of GW and Vallejo paints again with some of the GW washes used.

I really enjoyed painting these figures, although researching a new period is just as enjoyable!"

Painted by Joseph McCullough

Mohawk Hunting Party painted by Joseph McCullough, sometimes professional painter and employee of Osprey Publishing.

"These figures were a real joy to paint, lots of crisp detail - and the perfect size - I love it when they fit on a penny."

Painted by Captain Blood

Captain Blood said:

I found the Mohawk easy and quite enjoyable to paint. A good level of detail. Nice clean castings, hardly any mould lines, zero flash. They take the paint well. Just the right level of detail. All in all - a pleasure to paint.

My painting style is pretty standard I think - Halfords matt black spray undercoat, drybrushed with a mid brown to show up the detail, then several layers of paint, fairly thinly watered to build up from dark basecoats to highlights, using a mix of cheap hobby acrylics (Inscribe / Anitas) plus Vallejo and GW paints. No washes, inks, dips or any of that new fangled malarkey ;)

Two coats of Winsor & Newton Galleria matt varnish. Mounted on 25mm steel washers. Based with PVA / sand / grit mix. Titivated according to taste.

Captain Blood also took some size comparison pictures of our Mohawk posed with some Woodland Indian models by Redoubt from his collection, one of which is shown below, (the two models on the flanks are by Redoubt).