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Trophy of Wales ANGLO BOER WAR series
MAJOR FREDERICK RUSSELL BURNHAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham
He lead a full life to put it mildly
Check out this book JB "SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS", superb read
http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/scouting2cont.pdf
The book includes a chapter on his involvement with the Shangani Patrol
Cheers
Martyn
MAJOR FREDERICK RUSSELL BURNHAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham
He lead a full life to put it mildly
Check out this book JB "SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS", superb read
http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/scouting2cont.pdf
The book includes a chapter on his involvement with the Shangani Patrol
Cheers
Martyn
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That's a great figure, Vic! He really looks like Ben Kingsley!
Seriously, though, that is an excellent conversion, and I really like your greenery, too. It's such a great vignette!
Prost!
Brad
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I can't believe I never posted any of mine here. You've probably seen them in my other threads, but I'll join in, if I may....
Frederick the Great, an Ulrich Puchala kit, after an illustration by Adolf Menzel:
Fritz out walking with his greyhounds, a kit by William Murray (Old Guard):
and Fritz from New Hope Designs:
I think this is from a Carl Röchling print, depicting Frederick inspecting a civil engineering project in Posen or the Oder valley, after the war.
Puchala produced other portrait figures of Frederick's generals, based on contemporary illustrations or later ones by Menzel, Röchling, and others. This is Ferdinand of Brunswick, who took command of the allied army in central Germany against the French, after Cumberland's failure and the capitulation agreement of Klosterzeven:
The King's brother, Prince Henry, who commanded the army in the central (Saxon) theater of the war:
Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, who helped train the army, especially the cavalry, to a high state of proficiency after the first two wars of Austrian Succession. And he was Frederick's spymaster, gathering intelligence through his many contacts in the Austrian and Russian armies, and through other agents:
Duke Friedrich Eugen of Württemberg, Chef (colonel-proprietor) and commander of the Württemberg Dragoons, one of the princes of the Empire who served in the Prussian army. Frederick regarded him as an able commander, and often tasked him with scouting missions of combined arms:
More to follow....
Frederick the Great, an Ulrich Puchala kit, after an illustration by Adolf Menzel:
Fritz out walking with his greyhounds, a kit by William Murray (Old Guard):
and Fritz from New Hope Designs:
I think this is from a Carl Röchling print, depicting Frederick inspecting a civil engineering project in Posen or the Oder valley, after the war.
Puchala produced other portrait figures of Frederick's generals, based on contemporary illustrations or later ones by Menzel, Röchling, and others. This is Ferdinand of Brunswick, who took command of the allied army in central Germany against the French, after Cumberland's failure and the capitulation agreement of Klosterzeven:
The King's brother, Prince Henry, who commanded the army in the central (Saxon) theater of the war:
Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, who helped train the army, especially the cavalry, to a high state of proficiency after the first two wars of Austrian Succession. And he was Frederick's spymaster, gathering intelligence through his many contacts in the Austrian and Russian armies, and through other agents:
Duke Friedrich Eugen of Württemberg, Chef (colonel-proprietor) and commander of the Württemberg Dragoons, one of the princes of the Empire who served in the Prussian army. Frederick regarded him as an able commander, and often tasked him with scouting missions of combined arms:
More to follow....
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Here is a figure from Peipp, of the great cavalry commander, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz. This is based on the story that he signaled the first charge at Rossbach by tossing his pipe into the air:
Peipp's work is excellent, and for you painters, it's well worth it to browse his catalog. His figures have a character and an animation to them, that reminds me of the old Phoenix Model figures. I have his mounted figure of von Ziethen, too, but I haven't painted it yet:
Speaking of von Ziethen, Fritz's "Hussar King", I have a New Hope Designs figure which I painted as the old hussar:
I have a casting of von Ziethen from Army House (now part of Alymer's catalog), too, but haven't painted it yet. That same figure was part of Franklin Mint/Germany's set of Frederick the Great's army, and I think it originated with Rylit.
In this photo, left, another Puchala personality figure, Sebastian Wilhelm von Belling, Chef and commander of the Belling Hussars:
And in this photo, the third figure from the left depicts Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist, who commanded the Green Hussars, but also led his own Freikorps, and established it as a capable, disciplined mixed-arms unit, the best of the Freikorps and masters of the irregular warfare that the line infantry and cavalry of the time could not really carry out:
More to follow...
Peipp's work is excellent, and for you painters, it's well worth it to browse his catalog. His figures have a character and an animation to them, that reminds me of the old Phoenix Model figures. I have his mounted figure of von Ziethen, too, but I haven't painted it yet:
Speaking of von Ziethen, Fritz's "Hussar King", I have a New Hope Designs figure which I painted as the old hussar:
I have a casting of von Ziethen from Army House (now part of Alymer's catalog), too, but haven't painted it yet. That same figure was part of Franklin Mint/Germany's set of Frederick the Great's army, and I think it originated with Rylit.
In this photo, left, another Puchala personality figure, Sebastian Wilhelm von Belling, Chef and commander of the Belling Hussars:
And in this photo, the third figure from the left depicts Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist, who commanded the Green Hussars, but also led his own Freikorps, and established it as a capable, disciplined mixed-arms unit, the best of the Freikorps and masters of the irregular warfare that the line infantry and cavalry of the time could not really carry out:
More to follow...
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Still in the Seven Years War, but moving to other countries, here's a Vertunni figure of Empress Maria Theresa:
and for Britain, here is Stadden's portrait figure of the Duke of Cumberland:
As Stadden portrait figures go, this is one of his best, perhaps the best. It really looks like Cumberland. There are other figures in his old "custom figure" catalog identified as specific personalities, like Seydlitz or Ziethen, for example, but they don't look like them. They're really just one more Prussian cuirassier or hussar figure.
Shifting gears now to my other main collection, Imperial Germany, here is Kaiser Wilhelm II, from Tradition, with his eldest daughter, Princess Viktoria Luisa, in her uniform as the Chefin of the 1st Leibgarde-Husaren, a casting from Mike Ferguson, that never made it to production:
Here is Stadden's figure of Bismarck, in his uniform as a reserve officer of the 7th Cuirassiers ("von Seydlitz"):
This is another pretty good portrait figure from Stadden.
And finally, from my Revolutionary War collection, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, from Franklin Mint's "Yorktown" collection:
I don't know who sculpted the figure, but it's not a bad likeness. With a better quality paint job, it'd look more like the contemporary images we have of Steuben.
I've got other personality figures in the stash, but haven't photographed them, and some are still unfinished kits.
Thanks for looking, prosit!
Brad
and for Britain, here is Stadden's portrait figure of the Duke of Cumberland:
As Stadden portrait figures go, this is one of his best, perhaps the best. It really looks like Cumberland. There are other figures in his old "custom figure" catalog identified as specific personalities, like Seydlitz or Ziethen, for example, but they don't look like them. They're really just one more Prussian cuirassier or hussar figure.
Shifting gears now to my other main collection, Imperial Germany, here is Kaiser Wilhelm II, from Tradition, with his eldest daughter, Princess Viktoria Luisa, in her uniform as the Chefin of the 1st Leibgarde-Husaren, a casting from Mike Ferguson, that never made it to production:
Here is Stadden's figure of Bismarck, in his uniform as a reserve officer of the 7th Cuirassiers ("von Seydlitz"):
This is another pretty good portrait figure from Stadden.
And finally, from my Revolutionary War collection, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, from Franklin Mint's "Yorktown" collection:
I don't know who sculpted the figure, but it's not a bad likeness. With a better quality paint job, it'd look more like the contemporary images we have of Steuben.
I've got other personality figures in the stash, but haven't photographed them, and some are still unfinished kits.
Thanks for looking, prosit!
Brad
