 Der Alte Fritz  | 08 Dec 2013 11:54 p.m. PST |
Well, here he is, Banastre Tarleton of the British Legion, fresh off of the painting table at the olde Fife & Drum studios:
This last picture is not enlarged as much as the three pix above, so it gives one a better idea of how the actual figure might look.
For more information and pictures, check out my blog (Der Alte Fritz Journal) at:
link Addendum: here is a Work In Progress photo of the von Knyphausen personality for the Hessian army. He has a little bit more work to be done, but I thought that you would like to see him in any event.
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| Crann Tara Minis | 09 Dec 2013 12:49 a.m. PST |
Brilliant stuff Jim, can't wait to get them |
| Disco Joe | 09 Dec 2013 5:03 a.m. PST |
Truly exceptional. I will be picking them up when they are available. |
| Scott MacPhee | 09 Dec 2013 6:56 a.m. PST |
Looking good, Jim. Nice article in WI this month, too. |
| ACWBill | 09 Dec 2013 7:23 a.m. PST |
Beautiful, can't wait to get mine either. |
nnascati  | 09 Dec 2013 7:24 a.m. PST |
Something off about the left side of his face. Did Tarleton have a deep scar there? |
| John the OFM | 09 Dec 2013 8:06 a.m. PST |
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| IronDuke596 | 09 Dec 2013 10:06 a.m. PST |
But a brilliant and successful tactician. |
| Der Alte Fritz | 09 Dec 2013 10:06 a.m. PST |
@nnascati: no, that is just a spot of red brown paint that I forgot to cover up when I applied the flesh color. Since the picture is magnified to 3x to 4x its actual size, the line looks larger than it actually is. Thank you for pointing it out though, as I will go back and touch it up this evening.  |
| John the OFM | 09 Dec 2013 11:11 a.m. PST |
But a brilliant and successful tactician. Really? Cowpens? |
| Duc de Limbourg | 09 Dec 2013 11:33 a.m. PST |
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| vtsaogames | 09 Dec 2013 1:52 p.m. PST |
I would say aggressive and largely successful tactician. His basic method was to march straight and hard at the enemy , charging as soon as the enemy was in reach. This worked at Waxhaws, where Buford's men were caught by surprise and Washington's dragoons had to flee across a river. It worked later when the enemy fled and were demoralized when he caught them anyway. It worked about 10 times in a row, until Sumter stood up to him at Blackstocks. Even then, Tarleton lucked out. As Tarleton's troops were withdrawing Sumter was badly wounded by buckshot and the Rebel militia dispersed. This allowed Tarleton to claim the bloody nose as a victory. He then went on to use the same technique against Dan Morgan at Cowpens and was beaten like a drum. Marvelous figure. |
| epturner | 09 Dec 2013 2:20 p.m. PST |
Beautiful paint job and a lovely sculpt. Eric |
| Der Alte Fritz | 09 Dec 2013 3:28 p.m. PST |
JOFM: Every general can have one off day. Just ask Mr. Bonaparte.  |
| John the OFM | 09 Dec 2013 5:50 p.m. PST |
M Bonaparte had more than one off day. |
| epturner | 09 Dec 2013 6:31 p.m. PST |
As evidenced by the last time I ran a game in the wilds of Luzerne County… A certain OFM's militia ran like scalded cats… Just saying. Eric |
| marco56 | 09 Dec 2013 7:14 p.m. PST |
When you have him available you better get a large amount of stock and Marion also.Great figure.
Mark |
| Augie the Doggie | 06 Jun 2014 6:36 p.m. PST |
He's quite the dapper looking gent. |
| nevinsrip | 06 Jun 2014 7:55 p.m. PST |
Waiting patiently. (it's killing me!!) |
| Supercilius Maximus | 07 Jun 2014 2:52 a.m. PST |
Did you paint him, DAF? If so you appear to have done the eyes differently on these two (and if I may be so bold, I think your figures look much better this way). |
| Der Alte Fritz | 16 Jun 2014 12:12 p.m. PST |
Yes, I painted Tarleton. I have started either painting no eyes on figures (especially if they wear a helmet or hat that covers the eyes, or I wear 3x reading glasses and use a very fine spotter brush to put two micro dots of white in the eye socket. |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
