Sat there, scratched my head. Not really all that many resources for painting these, I thought. Not really that many pictures. How are they different from the Huron, Iroquois or the Apaches? Who the hell are the Seminoles, really? They are from Florida. Cool, I know Florida. Hell, I lived in Florida. . I have painted these in the past and played it rather safe. I have always had success selling Indians so I had my last batch and I decided to take a go at them rather than just leave them in a box and unpainted forever.
These are 28mm Old Glory sculpts. The belts seem to always get mixed up on the ride from the back of the soldier to the front of the soldier and they have, at other times the ability to disappear altogether. This is the start of a somewhat challenging experience for a painter. Where are those damn belts? Where did they go? They have to be here somewhere? The weapons are sometimes malformed from one model to another so what looks like one brand of musket on one figure ends up looking like something somewhat different on another. But honestly I promised myself I wouldn’t rag on the gamer friendly and very affordable miniatures. These, BTW, come in bags of $30 and are close to a $1 a piece so can you really complain? Maybe…Lol…
Going back to the project- I then began researching the history of the Seminole tribe. There was a 1st and 2nd Seminole war but not really to much attention paid to it unfortunately. Painting, that show on the net, seem rather limited especially since I am looking to find out how the Seminoles dressed. I found a cultural site that describes some of the patterns but didn’t really show me pictures and then the sites that had pictures always had just one picture and that was of a leader. Now my common sense tells me that not all warriors dressed as extravagantly as their leader so that left me in the dark. I continued to Google and after a lot of sifting I found a couple of pictures of which I would base my painting on. I used a variety of colors-violets, oranges, and powder blues. The headdress is red and the feathers black and white while the equipment could be of almost any color.
I based all of them on one inch bases and did some brown gel paste, later i dry-brushed it with three successive colors from darker to lighter and finally I added static grass, and some different grass tufts. Finally I dry- brushed all the vegetation with orange and then yellow. I have added some pictures so you can see for yourself how they turned out.
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