deadhead | 10 Dec 2013 10:01 a.m. PST |
Now this needs imagination. 14 men to represent a Brigade, more officers and NCOs than men and Stiles and Ewart get an eagle each! There is a single Inniskilling Dragoon, only one, as I find their colour scheme a bit disappointing. I had to show the facial view of Ponsonby, if only to show how wrong eyes can go. The figure is in truth a bit "starey", but in the photo he looks like he has spotted those lancers already! The family roared with laughter when they saw this. You do have to show your mistakes in painting! That gets corrected! Funny, my favourite image is the rear view. The last the Allied line saw of most these chaps, galloping at everything
Hope you like them (grin)
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Brian Smaller | 10 Dec 2013 12:14 p.m. PST |
I really like them. A fantastic piece of modelling. The command base is my favourite part of this unit. In a similar vein I field my French Guard Horse Grenadiers along with some Elite Gendarmes in a single mixed unit. |
deadhead | 10 Dec 2013 1:01 p.m. PST |
Very much appreciated. I really will redo Ponsonby's left eye!!! Your figures. Please show them! My favourite unit of the Nap Wars
uniform-wise anyway
..The Heavy Cavalry of the Guard. I showed them just few weeks ago exactly as you described yours. I would love to see the Gendarmes d'Elite esp. Bicorne Miniatures? |
Brian Smaller | 10 Dec 2013 8:36 p.m. PST |
The Horse grenadiers are Connoisseur and Hinchliffe and the Elite Gendarmes are Connoisseur (from Bicorne now). I painted these in 1986, so they are quite old. Painted with Humbrol enamels :) I'll see what I can do about some pics when I get back to the Woolshed in a few weeks (away with work at the moment). |
Bandolier | 10 Dec 2013 10:00 p.m. PST |
So nice. Great looking troops. May I ask where you got the little fern/s from? |
Ashenduke | 11 Dec 2013 12:39 a.m. PST |
They came out great. Really like the shot from the rear as well showing the great job you did on the horses dapple. (I think thats the right term for the spots?). |
SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 11 Dec 2013 8:45 a.m. PST |
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deadhead | 11 Dec 2013 11:38 a.m. PST |
Bandolier. They are from Noch who do a huge range of scenic items for model railways. They are not cheap and I am unconvinced by some of the colouring so tend to repaint. Laser cut, not cheap, but amazing detail. These are meant to be stinging nettles and are my favourite product from their range. You can get contents of a vegetable garden, flowers and water plants but most those are of limited use for a Napoleonic battlefield. Ashenduke. Indeed they are dapple greys and that is a challenge to paint, if not to look like rocking horse toys. Photography is strange. I did most these figures a year ago, but the command trio only finished yesterday. In that whole year I never noticed that the Officer of Greys still has a black plume
.and his portmanteau lacks the gold edging and lettering. Soon as I looked at the photograph it hit me. Thanks again to all of you for your encouragement |
deadhead | 14 Dec 2014 3:48 a.m. PST |
Sob……… Got my final volume of The Waterloo Archive (Vol VI, British Sources) a few days ago. Trying to thaw out last night (Sunderland in December is no place to watch a dull football game) and I read the words "his Aide de Camp being at Brussels". The chap in the green faced dragoon outfit….my one excuse to introduce the Fifth Dragoon Guards uniform………..was not even there. Sob……… |
Lord Hill | 14 Dec 2014 4:28 a.m. PST |
Magnificent! Love the colour red you've got there – can I ask what it is? Really like the command stand – details like the French casualty really give it character and make it "yours". |
Lord Hill | 14 Dec 2014 4:35 a.m. PST |
Ponsonby had two ADC's – maybe it was the other one (Sir George De Lacy Evans, 5th West Indian Regt) in Brussels? Don't go hacking off that Dragoon yet! |
von Winterfeldt | 14 Dec 2014 5:27 a.m. PST |
excellent two units – you also got the tack right, which seemingly is a great challange for a lot of painters – a question, I notice a nicely paintes sergeant – with a carabine – I was always under the impression NCOs in cavalry did not carry a carabine, was this different in the British army?? |
deadhead | 14 Dec 2014 8:55 a.m. PST |
von W….you are good! NCOs did not carry carbines. As you can imagine though, the prospect of trying to remove them from Perry figures did not appeal. Their sergeant is cast with stripes and a carbine. I therefore have a Royals sergeant, Corporal Stiles and Sgt Ewart all carrying one! The red is simple enough. It is just a Games Workshop base…two colours, can't recall offhand…but their own wash and then Vallejo scarlet. It is the scarlet that makes them. A bit bright for troopers, but I love the result, even if wrong. As for the ADCs. Nice thought, but the chap in the bicorne is de Lacy Evans. Hence his green facings. No, it was the chap in VDG who was away according to Hamilton of the Scots Greys (Lt Braithwaite Christie, ref p66 The Waterloo Archive vol VI, with a nice pic on the mt st jean website) |
Marc the plastics fan | 14 Dec 2014 2:18 p.m. PST |
Nice, now do the rest – needs LOTS mores |
deadhead | 14 Dec 2014 3:15 p.m. PST |
Marc, my Gendarmes d'Elite way outnumber my Union Brigade. I had thought to model the latter at the end of 18th June…..14 is nearly right then………… |
xxxxxxx | 15 Dec 2014 6:30 a.m. PST |
Deadhead, Great painting, great staging/basing, great photos …. well, just plain great modelling. They look like one of those wonderful Victorian "victory" paintings. Thanks so much for posting them. - Sasha (who knows nothing about the British military except that they wore DPM for most of my life, but knows what he likes) |
Marc the plastics fan | 15 Dec 2014 8:33 a.m. PST |
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deadhead | 15 Dec 2014 1:16 p.m. PST |
Sasha, Marc I freely admit this is the daftest unit in my collection. Everybody has a captured eagle (never did add the dangly bits from the flag poles), the NCOs have carbines (as von W noted) and 14 men represent a Heavy Brigade. Ponsonby has an eye defect that would mandate a gadolinium enhanced CT or an MRI scan today. Left VI nerve palsy or just a bad painter of a pupil? The last volume of the Waterloo Archive is great at reminding us how many were left by the end of the day, Marc. Funny how many still survived though! A surprising number ended up escorting prisoners to the rear, then if you have lost your horse you cannot be seen on anything but a Grey, then it might well be hard to find your way through the smoke to unit now moved, plus then it takes several men to carry a wounded senior occifer to the rear……then you might be lightly wounded. Uxbridge is fascinating on his views of the cavalry (more the lights, I admit) performance at Waterloo. We all know about DoW and artillery controversy. Much suggestion that even the best were more depleted than strictly needed, by the end of the day. |
Widowson | 15 Dec 2014 6:20 p.m. PST |
Great figures, but one more critical comment. Scots Greys should be wearing short white gloves. |
spontoon | 15 Dec 2014 7:18 p.m. PST |
Lovely! I imagine Ponsonby,(and most others!) were a wee bit concussed from the gunfire that day! So, his eyes are probably quite appropriate! |
traveller | 15 Dec 2014 7:36 p.m. PST |
Eyes are pain. I try to make the white just a narrow line, but not easy to do. With smaller miniatures I just put a black line. I'm painting Vikings, now, and they have so much hair hanging down, you can hardly see where their eyes begin. So do most of you who game brigade size units try to show some men from each unit or do you pick a unit and just go for uniformity? I have only gamed with individual battalions and never had to make that choice. |
deadhead | 17 Dec 2014 4:45 a.m. PST |
White gloves………of course. The command figures have them but not the Greys………the !st and 6th come with gauntlets, but I missed that. I had the excuse for the carbines on NCOs, but none for this! Ponsonby? I think his facial expression suggests he has just met a lancer, at the sharp end. Traveller, I have almost become convinced not to even try the whites of eyes in 28mm. A dark wash into they eye socket and an eyebrow at the most. For a very "exposed" face (eg no peak overhanging)I might put just a black dot for the pupil, justa s you said. The officer did finally get his plume painted white! |
Marc the plastics fan | 17 Dec 2014 10:24 a.m. PST |
DH – please don't take anything I say as mocking by the way – they are a lovely unit. But my word they will look impressive when you recruit to starting strength at 1:10 scale *grin". But for me, I recognise the joy of a unit like this, and would be pleased to own it. White gloves notwithstanding |
deadhead | 17 Dec 2014 1:13 p.m. PST |
Marc, I have no illusions. Mock away! Fourteen figures, to represent even a seriously depleted brigade, with two eagles, is stretching it a bit……….I favour ratios of 1 to 100! My study shelves are small and, with my largest unit the Gendarmes d'Elite, (this before the promised Gringo figures) proportions I simply do not "do". I cannot see d'Erlon's lads quaking before this lot! |