"The grey wall" or "Rebel Yell"............ (1 Viewer)

Just saw these. Great stuff, as usual, George. It is fun to see someone have so many figures that it actually can give the viewer an idea of the mass numbers these battles actually involved. Always enjoyable to see your landscaping and I like the HQ set-up with the horses getting some down time. Thanks for the pictures. -- Al
 
artmabigor said:
wow!
impressive!
how many hours, days, months ...... working to achieve such Displaying??{sm5}
as I watched it figures on the scale 1/72? how many parts??
The painting, scenery, what patience!!
Congratulations and thank you for posting.
Guy.{bravo}}{bravo}}
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Guy,
Thank you for the comments, I am a very big fan of your spectacular 54mm dioramas using First Legion figures.

I paint the figures over a period of a few months as I purchase them, the scenery I make as well during these times when I am not busy with the selling of toy soldiers.

This display took about two hours to plan out and set up, the painting and building several months........
 
lancer said:
Just saw these. Great stuff, as usual, George. It is fun to see someone have so many figures that it actually can give the viewer an idea of the mass numbers these battles actually involved. Always enjoyable to see your landscaping and I like the HQ set-up with the horses getting some down time. Thanks for the pictures. -- Al
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Thanks Al, glad you like it. One of the forum members PM'd me and said my ACW layouts remind him of those Greenspan maps in the American Heritage book on the American Civil War, that made me laugh as those maps inspired me as a kid to do huge ACW battles with the old Airfix ho/oo scale figures.

Keith Rocco told me those maps inspired him to become an artist, pretty cool actually.........
 
Warrior said:
Thanks Al, glad you like it. One of the forum members PM'd me and said my ACW layouts remind him of those Greenspan maps in the American Heritage book on the American Civil War, that made me laugh as those maps inspired me as a kid to do huge ACW battles with the old Airfix ho/oo scale figures.

Keith Rocco told me those maps inspired him to become an artist, pretty cool actually.........
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Those maps with all the little figures and cannons and battlefield features were always my favorite part of the book. I used to spend hours studying those maps just to see what new details I could pickout. I'm glad to find out I was not the only one who did so. ^&grin -- Al
 
lancer said:
Those maps with all the little figures and cannons and battlefield features were always my favorite part of the book. I used to spend hours studying those maps just to see what new details I could pickout. I'm glad to find out I was not the only one who did so. ^&grin -- Al
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Al,
My mother bought me the American Heritage book on Gettysburg with the Greenspan map in the middle, as a nine year old I thought how cool was that, then when I was eleven, my aunt bought me the American Civil War book they did, it had ALL the battles represented with those maps, talk about spectacular for a kid to be able to see those..........great memories and I've still got both of those books.
 
Warrior said:
Al,
My mother bought me the American Heritage book on Gettysburg with the Greenspan map in the middle, as a nine year old I thought how cool was that, then when I was eleven, my aunt bought me the American Civil War book they did, it had ALL the battles represented with those maps, talk about spectacular for a kid to be able to see those..........great memories and I've still got both of those books.
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George, I still got them both, too. And I still enjoy them. ^&grin -- Al
 
George

I'm running out of superlatives to describe your massive battle scenes but I am still suffering size envy ^&grin

Brilliant just brilliant

Bob
 
UKReb said:
George

I'm running out of superlatives to describe your massive battle scenes but I am still suffering size envy ^&grin

Brilliant just brilliant

Bob
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Thanks for your comments Bob, I am glad you like my efforts.............I do enjoy the size and scope of what I can create in the smaller scale............................
 
Just came across this George. This is spectacular!!! The work you put into this is amazing. Great job!

Mark
 
George, you are the Master of the 20mm genre. I have a 4x6 diorama in my basement, which I may post pics some day. Started with 22mm in 1980 but no where near the collection you have. I too was entrhalled with the Greenspan battle pics and the ACW book was one of the first I purchased when able. Used to go to the school library to look at them. Until someone cut all the pics out! {eek3} Great pics and amazing display. Very much enjoyed seeing these. Regards, Chris
 
Terp152 said:
George, you are the Master of the 20mm genre. I have a 4x6 diorama in my basement, which I may post pics some day. Started with 22mm in 1980 but no where near the collection you have. I too was entrhalled with the Greenspan battle pics and the ACW book was one of the first I purchased when able. Used to go to the school library to look at them. Until someone cut all the pics out! {eek3} Great pics and amazing display. Very much enjoyed seeing these. Regards, Chris
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Chris,
I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my work, glad you like it.

Would love to see pictures of your 4 by 6 diorama using 22mm figures, are they the old Musket Miniatures figures, they did a ton of ACW figures in that scale.

A video was released back in the late 80's/early 90's called Gettysburg in Miniature and it told the story of the battle using thousands of Musket Miniatures figures, I was fortunate to be able to buy about 1,000 of the figures from the creator of the video.

Funny you mentioned the pages being removed from that book; must have been the same person who removed most of them from the copy we had in our junior high library, I was crushed, but later happy when my aunt bought me my own copy of the book.

Thanks again for your comments...........
 
Warrior said:
Chris,
I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my work, glad you like it.

Would love to see pictures of your 4 by 6 diorama using 22mm figures, are they the old Musket Miniatures figures, they did a ton of ACW figures in that scale.

A video was released back in the late 80's/early 90's called Gettysburg in Miniature and it told the story of the battle using thousands of Musket Miniatures figures, I was fortunate to be able to buy about 1,000 of the figures from the creator of the video.

Funny you mentioned the pages being removed from that book; must have been the same person who removed most of them from the copy we had in our junior high library, I was crushed, but later happy when my aunt bought me my own copy of the book.

Thanks again for your comments...........
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Hi George
They were Musket Minis and Stone Mtn. I remember seeing ads for the video but never got to see it.
Regards
Chris
 
Terp152 said:
Hi George
They were Musket Minis and Stone Mtn. I remember seeing ads for the video but never got to see it.
Regards
Chris
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They are nice figures, still in production today actually, I've got a bunch of them.

The video is spectacular, someone bought the scenery used in the video and it's in a building in Gettysburg, right down the street from the wax museum..........
 
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