Project D (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

Hi all

i got bitten by the proverbial bug again. I shld change my pest control regime hahahha

I picked out this galloping horse and decided to work more on it. Amazingly, I didn have other suitable spares to supplement it. Obviously my other projects were quite successful in using up the spares.

I placed an order for my figures. I’ll leave it up to yr sleuthing skills to figure out what this piece is all about.

 

[Grey Heron]

Very good start. I look forward to further posts on this project.

 

[blaster]

My order for new figs just came in. Now busily sorting them out for conversions.

 

[blaster]

I decided to continue with my gimmick of foreshortening. I shortened the horse by a cm. Nobody else butchers a beautiful Historex horse like I do hahaha.

 

[blaster]

Added a shabraque and a headless fig. Reshaped the horse’s neck

 

[Grey Heron]

Good work there on the project.

 

[blaster]

Added more details to the main fig. I shortened the horse to emphasize the foreshortening. Here are three more horses being modified. These are numbered as I plan to add more….

 

[Grey Heron]

The autonomically work on the horses are quite well done, especially incorporating existing parts from the spare parts container.

 

[Obee]

Now we are getting the first glimpses or what the figure will be, a Napoleonic Hussar wearing a shako and his dolman over his jacket?

Will he be a personality figure, that the big question ???

John

 

[blaster]

Hi John.

Dolman with pelisse
It might be closer than you realisse

Wicked Vic

 

[blaster]

Painted some simple undercoats to visualise the errors

 

[blaster]

With some leftover putty, I reshaped the shako.

 

[blaster]

So while I am waiting for the paint to dry on the FPW figs, my itching hands drifted over to this piece and I reworked the whole piece. I tk that the the second pix has the pose about right.

 

[Obee]

I think you are making the figures from "Charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807 - Vive l'Empereur! "

This is magnificent painting that I have seen here in the Art Gallery of new South Wales in Sydney.

Vive l'Empereur!, 1891 by Edouard Detaille

‘I sought to render the effect of a cavalry charge under the eyes of the Emperor and reconstruct the physiognomy of those men, who were going to their deaths covered with gold embroidery.’ - Edouard Detaille Celebrated military painter Edouard ...

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

It is huge, 445.0 x 512.5 x 14.0 cm in the frame.

Looking forward to seeing this one completed, so keep up the good work,

John