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[blaster]

Well, I'm inviting hate mail from Napoleonophiles. hahaha.

I am doing extended spring cleaning and really turning out the gray collection and pests as well. Came across this olde base which I had made for my Napoleon Sacre but it was too ambitious then. I thought that maybe if I recrafted the scene with visual perspectives, I could compress the scene and fit it within a reasonably sized shadow box.

So here it is, with all the red lines drawn for further trimming.

Rgds Victor

 

[StudioParisArt]

Can we see your preliminary scene Diorama layout sketches please? Be nice to get some idea how it all fits together you see? Looks interesting

 

[Horus]

Looking forward to seeing this progress over time, you certainly never go the way route Victor

 

[blaster]

Can we see your preliminary scene Diorama layout sketches please? Be nice to get some idea how it all fits together you see? Looks interesting

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I had tried to do this scene abt three decades ago. I shared the concept and work then. Then abandoned it.

Rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

Looking forward to seeing this progress over time, you certainly never go the way route Victor

Hi Steve. I do try but keep getting waylaid by forlorn figures. I tk the medical term is short attn span or attention deficit syndrome …
What were y saying?? Hahahaha

Rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

And the base has been trimmed by a good friend. I need to move on from this stage.

 

[blaster]

Finally took out my figs stored in a vintage Samsonite briefcase. Started to place the figs on the base within the box. I elevated the back by about a cm.

 

[blaster]

Ill start with Eugene Beauharnais. He is standing to the right side behind the two bishops. Although short in stature, he was painted as standing taller than the two bishops.

I had last left him in this state about 2 decades back. So the first thing is to animate his left hand and then to elevate his height slightly.

 

[blaster]

Puttied over the base.

 

[blaster]

Reanimating Eug. The leg positions are hidden in the ptg so I reimagined hims as striding over one step down on the altar.

 

[blaster]

I fooled around with Eug pose, finally decided to make him standing on one level.

Also took out the altar boys behind and will elongate their torsos.

 

[blaster]

I added putty to Eug leg. Added putty to elongate the torsos of the altar boys.