Tigers 3 and 4

The third of the Louisiana Tigers miniatures is somewhat different from the run-of-the-mill.

This is another in my series of miniatures-cobbled-together-from-bits. In this case Warlord Games Ancient Briton legs and War of the Spanish Succession torso, mated with Perry ACW arms, head and cartridge case.

The aim was to capture the feel of a Zouave who's discarded his blue jacket and is instead wearing his red undershirt and non-uniform trousers.

I'm going to revisit the paint job slightly. The stockings into which his trousers are tucked need to be in a slightly more contrasting colour.

Figure four started out as a stain-painting experiment. His flesh and blue jacket were painted with heavily watered-down acrylics over a white undercoat. 

I applied a mid-brown wash over the whole miniature.

I'm not particularly happy with the result but he'll look OK when ranked up with twenty-odd similar figures.