Duchy of Tuscany Kettledrummer (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

I chanced upon this pavement piece which I had made up from my own castings a few years back. So I decided to cut it to fit a suitable base for my kettle drummer.

 

[blaster]

I took a critical look at this piece and decided to redo the figure, the horse and the heraldry.

 

[theBaron]

Excellent kitbashing, Vic! What did you use for the drums? An old-school method was to take plastic cigar tubes and cut the bottom off for the shell of the drum, and I wondered if you used that method.

Prost!
Brad

 

[blaster]

Hi Brad,

The use of these cigar tubes for kettledrums is a good idea. Plastic and old aluminium material. However, I wasn't sure about the size of the kettledrums. I used the Historex drums as the period was 1799. I presume that these Napoleonic period spares would provide the best diameter ref for my contemorary figure.

I presume that since Historex issues the drums as one size, these earlier drums may probably have been less sophisticated. I note that kettledrums do come in two slightly different diameters to create a ba-dum sound instead of just a dum dum sound.

The figure has been redone, including new coattails.

Rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

Now that I’ve finished a big project, I decided to work on this piece for now. I completed the cobbled base and glued it to the wood base. Then I drilled n attached the horse to the base.

 

[Grey Heron]

Late in commenting on this project, but inspiring nonetheless. Will continue to look at this project of yours.

Cheers,
GH

 

[blaster]

Cheers GH. I’m hoping to make further headway with this piece before another big project overwhelms me.

rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

Worked on the figure

 

[Grey Heron]

The uniform coat is starting to take shape. Great work here.

 

[blaster]

I reshaped the tunic flaps to drape over the saddle

 

[Grey Heron]

Great work. That makes alot of sense with the tunic skirts.

 

[blaster]

Added the turnbacks

 

[Grey Heron]

Nice work on the turnbacks. This miniature is staring to take shape.

 

[blaster]

Hi GH
I hope so…..After assembling the figure, I added an undercoat of red paint to visualise the tunic for errors. can see some and hope to correct them soon.


rgds Victor

 

[Grey Heron]

Thanks. I see what you mean when you add some paint for oversight.

 

[blaster]

Just getting bk to this piece in between larger dioramas. I scraped off the tunic details to resculpt the lacings.

 

[blaster]

Resculpting almost done. The face and hat shape has also been redone.

 

[blaster]

Undercoat ptg of the figure.

 

[blaster]

Moving on with ptg the fig and horse.