"Perry's Marshal Ney" Topic

Marshal Ney hope you like…

Great painting, I like it! Do you have a link for larger photo?

Beautiful paint job, but Ney had red hair.

An excellent sculpt and your painting talent combine very well here. Well done.

HussarL i will try to put a link up to a larger pix.

The picture does not show it very well but he does have gingery hair…maybe i should have made it a stronger orange. was the first time i painted ginger hair. :)

Great Job….

Thanks all for your kind words…

No, don't change the colour. Once you got to Ney's age, the hair was not so ginger nor so plentiful. The picture upon which this model is based (the Panorama at Waterloo…well, Mt St Jean anyway) shows a skinny young lad, with a full head of hair, in his mid twenties shouting "en avant". Few weeks later there are etchings of him, as a captive of the Bourbons, looking more typical of a guy in his late 40s……..better fed anyway!

If I could change anything it would be the blue of the coat. I know about scale effect etc, but it needs to be almost black to be realistic…not artistic, but realistic. Two hundred years of fading and what you see in French or Belgian museums is still very very dark blue…even for cheap infantry privates, let alone a Marechal de France.

Heck, your painting is great! He's your's and unique. All you need now is Heymes and Lavavasseur……..plus the hundreds of cuirassiers always shown in the background.

Deadhead thank you for the information really realy helpful, and the encouragement is much appreciated. i am working on the Cuirassiers now…but will be busy with them for sometime before posting pix.