Well once again apologies for posting so late ...heres the final pics and the rest of the blog...
When i left off in 2008 , id just hit that pyschological barrier....painting white...i must admit i Hate it.... takes so long before you seem to see a result...but ah well they are guard units and you cant leave em half finished....
2009 , Quick phone call to a friend in Blue Mountains and its like hey what you up to ...how about a painting session ? So off to the mountains for two days of painting with a friend to break thru the barrier and get these guys finished....
* The pants are painted with Citadel Foundation Astronomical grey as the Midcoat and then high lighted with GW Skull white , leaving the grey as shadow for creases usually i just do inside of the legs and round knees and ankles.
The brigade as they looked with all pants finished....
With the body of the work finished it was time to finish off the remiander of the figure before moving to the regimental distinctions .
Water canteen was GW Boltgun Metal , the sword and pack webbing GW skull white and a little bit of gold at the end of each sword scabbard and on the cartridge pouches , four gold dots to the corners and one in the centre.
The cuffs , turnbacks , shoulder straps & collars were painted as to the regimental distinctions. Semenovski , all red whereas the other regt . cuffs and collars are GW ultramarine blue with red trim. All the red is painted same way as previously described in the blog.
The vertical part of the soldiers cuffs ( dont know the name of it ) gets a small black line as a base to the gold line over the top. At this scale i havent gone back to try and put in stripes which by alrights should be there along that part of the cuff ...as it would obliterate the paint work ( and i dont have a small enough brush to do it anyways ... ) if someone knows another way please tell me ... im eager to find out how to do chevrons ...coz they stump me. You will notice i havent painted chevrons on my drummers... i usually end up stuffing my figures up so i've left them out  ..
The hands are simply GW elf flesh over the GW Scorched brown.
Officers get a GW Mithril silver sash.
Here are the figures with their GMB flags... I hope you like em ....i know the last bit of the blog is a bit rushed .apologies for that ..but any questions post away i will answer them ...
ANY RECOMMENDATIONS Please advise..im always looking for better ways to paint .
The brigade with Brigadier Potemkin .
Special mention of the GMB flags- They are EXQUISITE ! .... I found out the hard way that they dont appear to like using water based glue on them. The water appeared to leech the color out of a flag i had practiced on ...So i searched around on the web and found a great way of doing them . I bought some doublesided sticky tape from art shop , and placed that on the back of the flags , uncovered the backing to the tape , then cut out a strip of tin foil placed that on , and a second covering of double sided tape. Cut the flag to shape with a VERY SHARP stanley knife , put them on the flag poles and shaped to my hearts content. Can't remember the person on TMP who recommended the method , but it worked a hoot. And i managed to get a bit more "life" into the flags , which lifts the battalions out alot . So to the GMB team THANK YOU !!!!
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took me a bit of time , but heres the latest on the Russians fiends from hell.... 
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Been absent without leave for a bit - But im happy to say that the brigade is almost finished... I will post more pics very shortly on the finished lads after i just do a bit of flocking..... 
