"Joshua Chamberlain "Hero of Little Round Top"" Topic

I've spent this week painting up those oddments of figures you pick up here and there. Another model I finished today was the Joshua Chamberlain "Hero of Little Round Top" figure that was given to me on the Wargames Illustrated stand at Salute this year – thanks Dan.

As usual, more images and blurb on the Scrivsland blog: link

He was only in his mid-30s during Gettysburg. Why is he so gray?

Fredericksburg.

"But out of that silence rose new sounds more appalling still; a strange ventriloquism, of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan, as if a thousand discords were flowing together into a key-note weird, unearthly, terrible to hear and bear, yet startling with its nearness; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, some begging for a drop of water, some calling on God for pity; and some on friendly hands to finish what the enemy had so horribly begun; some with delirious, dreamy voices murmuring loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; and underneath, all the time, the deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless, or too heroic to articulate their agony…It seemed best to bestow myself between two dead men among the many left there by earlier assaults, and to draw another crosswise for a pillow out of the trampled, blood-soaked sod, pulling the flap of his coat over my face to fend off the chilling winds, and still more chilling, the deep, many voiced moan that overspread the field." – Joshua Chamberlain

This is 40 years on and he is reliving his glory years within his dementia dreams?

Nice paint job but I do agree he looks older than he should. Maybe this is a photo flash issue?

"This is 40 years on and he is reliving his glory years within his dementia dreams?"

Quite sure I just ed myself laughing.

I interpreted the hair color as blond, always difficult in miniatures.

Yeah, I did Sharpe as the TV blonde and it came out yellow-green in pictures. Hard to do right.

Thanks chaps.
I did the hair light brown with lighter brown highlights, not grey. It seems more grey in the photos than sat here in my hands.

It looks blonde to me! Good job!

Excellent work!

Looks blond to me also. Very nicely done!

Hero?

He could be strawberry blonde ie in denial about his true roots!