A cavalry scene with pith helmets (2 Viewers)

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Starting to sculpt more of the natives.

 

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Ptg these midground cav figs.

 

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Here are the natives wip

 

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Drum is covered with drum skin. Flag bearer has a sheet metal flag.

 

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Added some brass rod lances to these two cav figs.

 

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Added more details and did another round of ptg

 

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I spent the weekend knocking up the base for this. Full wood to take properly drilled placements for the cav figs. The base was two pieces of wood epoxied together to create a slope coming down from left to right as per the ptg. The base was also sloped fwd. following some acrylic wall putty.

I was so excited to test the staging with some figs. Then the base was sprinkled with some rocks and grass and then painted.

the scene was placed into the box for test fitting. Pretty exciting, right?

 

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I took a couple more pics left and right to show the scene from a single viewpoint


then I took out each figure to further detail them. Rifles are from Shenandoah miniatures. I subst bare legs for tamyia driver boots on the back side of the wound horse piece.

 

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Detailed and ptd more on the figs. Natives were given coloured patches

 

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Hello fellow herpes worshippers,

The reason why I hvn been posting on our tree site is that I’ve been travelling around Eastern n middle Yroop for several weeks now! Visiting a lot of museums and seeing sights which I hope to share with all when I return in Apr. Giving me a lot of new insights into how to display my figs. Also bought several books and some figs. Catch up soon.

Happy Easter to all!

Victor

 

[theBaron]

I've really missed this thread. This is incredibly dynamic, Vic! The poses, your modifications and sculpts; I can hardly wait to see this finished!

Prost!
Brad

 

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Hi Brad and all

thank you for yr very generous comments. I’m just lucky that I get to indulge in this hobby.

Can’t wait to restart this project and just got back yesterday and started to knock up the bkdrop.

 

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I trimmed the base to fit within the backdrop and raised the height. Then added cardboard and putty to tidy up the base. The base was repainted. So was the bkdrop.

now adding more details to each figure.

 

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Here is some wip on the horse harness
I’ve done another round on getting the base to fit flush with the bkdrop and fully painted it.

 

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I’ve added a couple of halters alr to two horses using copper wire. Very fiddly work. Also starting cleanup these foreground figures as much as possible and adding more details here and there. Scraping off excess putty and trying to improve the anatomy

 

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First pic shows the sloping base angling down to the front.
I ve completed adding halters and stirrups. Repainted the cav figs.

 

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Painting some of the natives.

Recruiting some smaller 1/35 horses and heads into the scene.

 

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I had a very productive weekend. Started off by adding the bits and reins to all the cav figs. Really mind boggling work ( worst than shipbldg). Hahaha. Then ptd all the figs.

Then carefully Att all the main figs to the scene. Some of the figs are supported with thicker wire, carefully hidden. Looks good eh? This final placement protects all the fragile swords, lances, reins etc from breakage as I continue to add more bkgd figs and details to the scene.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Looks fantastic, Victor!:salute::

 

[whdamon]

Fine work. I enjoy following your progress and look forward to your final product. I am currently working on a bust of Churchill ,representative of his participation in the charge