| Andy ONeill | 11 Aug 2012 1:49 a.m. PST |
Minden 28mm Seven Years Wars Prussian Cuirassier 5th Regiment
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| Costanzo1 | 11 Aug 2012 3:49 a.m. PST |
The higtest contrast! Amazing pieces togheter a bad conceived range! Not due to the wonderful historical period. |
| caubeen | 11 Aug 2012 4:38 a.m. PST |
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| Paint Pig | 11 Aug 2012 5:06 a.m. PST |
Lovely painting, without doubt the best sculpted horses around. Mr Ansell has a real talent for them. regards
dave |
| Garde de Paris | 11 Aug 2012 8:43 a.m. PST |
I don't understand Costanzo1's comments. Can anyone help here? – "bad conceived range?" GdeP |
| Andy ONeill | 11 Aug 2012 9:06 a.m. PST |
Can't help you out with the translation.
Isn't bad = dope = excellent in some circles? Thanks for the positive remarks. I made a number of poor choices with these fellers which I will avoid next time. Maybe this'll help someone some time. The riders have quite a gap between them and their mounts.
I'd be more careful in the way I fill it next time round and making sure the riders are upright. I think the best approach is to glue the rider with bostik, fill loosely with green stuff. Let that go off properly. Then fill more carefully with green stuff. I dropped a couple of them during painting. Metal horse + rider is heavier than I'm used to. Resulted in problems like the bent sword on one you can probably make out. Since corrected. I changed the way I hold them as I went. I used a Vaubanner flag. The part intended to wrap the pole isn't wide enough. Next time I'll measure the diameter and print one myself. I've also got some little big man decals which may do for sabretaches. |
| 2close2theflame | 11 Aug 2012 9:19 a.m. PST |
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| Garde de Paris | 11 Aug 2012 10:18 a.m. PST |
You did a wonderful job! Do the riders have the saddelry attached to them? That would make the horses more "univerasl." Does he sell horses alone? GdeP |
| Andy ONeill | 11 Aug 2012 2:24 p.m. PST |
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| Garde de Paris | 11 Aug 2012 3:06 p.m. PST |
Thank you, AONeill. Looks like one way or another, the can be heavy cavalry for my Napoleonics, or light horses. I have many old Stadden and Willies cavalry with no mounts! Same problem as the Emperor! GdeP |
| Paint Pig | 11 Aug 2012 5:12 p.m. PST |
Useful information AONeill, I haven't painted any of the Minden cavalry as yet but I do have some hussars that will come onto the bench within the month (bloody nice they are too). Will look at fitting the riders first up. regards
dave |
| Andy ONeill | 12 Aug 2012 1:45 a.m. PST |
All the Minden stuff is very nice but the hussars are particularly fine. |
| archiduque | 13 Aug 2012 3:11 a.m. PST |
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