Melon, those continentals were a painting diversion. Should really sell them as they're just taking up room plus they are about 18mm too big to play well with my other awi... (10mm)
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We have played Black Powder and British Grenadier with these.
They were all painted with Vallejo model color, hand mixed and shaded. If I recall correctly the base coat for the white was buff and lightened with both iraqi sand and just plain white.
For grass on those bases I used 2mm, 4mm and 6mm premade tufts from MiniNatur. You can now buy "knock offs" on ebay for a fraction of the cost. For smaller scales I use bog standard Games Workshop flock. It's a bit bright but a light dust dry brush works well at knocking it back a bit.
Lifetap, those 15mm are lovely. Essex Miniatures if I'm not mistaken?
Should also point out I have a blog with a variety of stuff from Ancients to Moderns via Napoleonic, AWI, ACW, Vietnam and WW2
http://britishforces.org.uk