Duke of Cumberland (1 Viewer)

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Was looking at doing this fat duke.
I noticed that one of the commercial heads resembled him in the Morier paintings.
He was grossly overweight and was wearing a cuirass. So I selected an Airfix cuirass. Notice how small the Historex cuirass is for comparison.

 

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That is a Ted Heath face.... Anyway, I made the face fuller and added a Historex tricorne at a rakish angle.

Then I cut up a couple of metal heavy horses and knocked up a rearing horse pose. Surprising quite easy to saw thru the metal pieces. Deciding to use a Historex horse head as these large horses were drawn with smaller refined heads in many classical paintings.

 

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The horse pose being finalised. I tweaked the legs by gently bending the metal.

 

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I added a thick wire for an anchor tail to support the weight of the metal horse.

 

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Ive knocked up the cuirass and head of this fig. Remodelled the neck of the horse. A pair of possible boots to be used. This piece will be based on a ptg of William on horseback.

 

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Added a body. Will drill later and add pin legs.

 

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Moving on with this. I drilled two pins to attach the boots (snipped off from an old Tradition figure).

Deciding to preserve my precious Airfix 10th Hussar saddlecloth, I used them as templates to cut out similar shapes from copper sheets.

More putty was added to the legs and rump to create the seat.

 

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More putty added to the underside.

 

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I redid the shabraque shapes and then puttied over the seating area to mask the jagged edges.

 

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After adding a layer of putty (and sanding down several times) over the copper template, I've added a saddle on top. The seat and underside of the figure was made even fatter. Ive also widened the cuirass with more putty.

 

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Taking my time on doing this. I am expt with how to drape metal sheets.

Here is the template for the coat.