"victrix british painted." Topic

Hi,

just started a blog, but thats not the point.

the point is there are some pics of my painted victrix minatures. dont juge uniform details. thats doesn't matter much to me, as long as i like how they look. Then its fine imo.

anway take a peek.

ralphswargames.blogspot.com

(sorry i havent worked out how to put a link in yet)

Ralph…

lol what a tit, it atomatically became a link!

very nice …

Nice but…

Are those small indentations on some of the shakos where the plastic didn't fill properly? It is most clear in the first unprimed pic.

Does the knee that is supposed to touch the ground in the kneeling firing pose really touch it?

I like them! Thanks for sharing.

Yes, a couple of the shakos need a little putty love!

Thank you. It's keeping me going until the flank company boxes are out.

Very nice. If I wanted some of these for the "War of 1812"
in the U.S. would I use:
VX0001 – British Waterloo Infantry Centre Companies
or
VX0002 – British Peninsular Infantry Centre Companies

and what is the difference between Centre and Flank company exactly? Thank you.
Walt

Flanks had tufted shoulders, the light companies had a different cap badge.

My preference is Peninsular. I don't believe many units in Canada would have received new style uniforms before the end of the war.

EDIT to add:

ugh, I hope those shakos are just a shaky start and not how the rest of the line goes. I would not want to be filling, smoothing and sanding 52 shakos.

Those are nice, good job!

I'm liking Victrix more and more, the detail is impressive.

Rabbit

Looking good, man. Nice work.

For the war of 1812 you what penisular troops. None of the troops recived the belgic shako in canada. Except the penisular vetrans at new orleans 1815, but that was after peace had been declared on christmas eve 1814.

Also i'll put up some pics of my americans in the next day or two.

And the victrix shakos problem is only with some of the heads about 1 in 5, by a rough estamate. not all the shakos are bad. After painting it is not as noticeable.

They look very nice. Thanks for sharing.

I started on one yesterday. It went together quickly. Very quickly. I was doing it at the same time as I was putting together some zulus. The five piece Brit went together much more quickly than the 3 piece zulus did.

Then Is tarted painting it and it is a very nice figure. The details are crisp and it will be fun painting them. I can't wait to get to the rest of them.

Does anyone have a real breakdown of the troops in the box? Namely, can you do an entire regiment marching, or do you have to do some kneeling and firing? Can anyone fill me in on the ratio of marching:firing?

From Dom Skelton post in an earlier thread

Contents of VX0001
Waterloo British Infantry
Centre Company

52 figures comprising:

4 officers/Standard bearers
4 NCO's
4 Drummers
12 advancing figures in 3 different poses
8 march figures in 2 different poses
8 standing firing figures
8 standing loading figures in 3 different poses
4 kneeling figures

40 heads in uncovered belgic shakos with 8 different faces
4 bare heads
4 drummers heads
8 heads in covered belgic shakos with 2 different faces

48 back packs with 4 variants
64 pairs of arms for officers, ensigns, NCO�s, drummers, firing, advancing, at charge, loading and marching positions
4 hands holding pistol 4 spare muskets 4 drums

Ah thanks so much.

I really want to do a marching British army… but it seems that the majority of the plastics will be in firing poses. That stinks for me:( I guess I'll have to do firing units…

Why worry? In a couple of months Perry's British will be available, and their boxed sets have no similar challenges with pose restrictions.

I believe that the Perry plastics are going to be either firing line, or arms down so not a firing line but NOT marching either, no?

Ideally I want just marching Brits:)

The Perry plastic french have most of their stuff in marching pose, at leat it looks like that to me.

So I would guess the same applies to their Brits when they come to

My first eight Victrix, slapped together and painted in an afternoon

picture

picture

See the Perry's site for the 3-up British plastics:

link

Hmmm, the link doesn't get you to the right page!!
The pics are under 'Plastic workbench'

Malcolm, very interesting use of 15mm in that first photo to create forced perspective. That IS what you did, no?

yes but they are 6mms.

Ahhh gotcha:)

It is a shame that the Perrys are in a firing line… I really like all my armies to be in marching poses:( I would almost consider going with 2nd Gen Old Glory, but they aren't as cheap as the older ones!

I see that the 1815 Brits for both Victrix and Perry have a rolled greatcoat on top of their backpack. I thought I had read somewhere that the greatcoats had been sent back to England in 1815 as unsuitable/unnecessary for a summer campaign! Does anyone know if this is a simple manifestation of my increasingly porous memory, or if there is some truth to the statement?

Mollinary

No, it was from me and my research at the Guards archive on birdcage walk. It was in the QMs correspondence that they had no greatcoats.

But I for one will be entirely ignoring this fact and leaving my Victrix/Perry guards well alone!

mollinary

The question of greatcoats was asked on the Gen. de Brigade forum as well –

The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington"
for May 31, 1815 deal with the army's greatcoats (bottom of page 411):

link

Apart from the Guards the only other reference I've seen to NOT having their greatcoats at Waterloo was for the 52nd and 95th Regts.

Cliff