"A Coach for a King?" Topic

Niels Rullkoetter has sent me some photos showing how, in just a few days, this coach evolved into something quite remarkable. It seems likely this will appear in the Westfalia range. I was delighted to see the Tsar added to their existing carriage, but this is something grander still. I know just who would fit in with this, but I will need a lot of Greenstuff for that conversion. It strikes me as an earlier design, so would suit anything from Seven Years War maybe, up to 1820s. It takes some skill to produce something of this quality!

Quality indeed. That is a marvellous piece of craftsmanship. Well done. A much needed addition to the period.

holy highwayman batman! That is nice…

Please let it be 28mm and let it be for sale at a decent price and available in the US…..

15 mm and Louis XIV has a seat at the action!

Dan

The advantage of doing 10mm (This is a 60mm square base)

cost about a fiver in total.

Having tried to produce Napoleon's Berline in 28mm, I know how difficult that can be and I got noweher near this standard. You'll know that Niels has produced the vehicles for Perry Napoleonics, everything from a forge to a pontoon or ambulance plus some even more refined stuff for Westfalia (eg the French ammo caisson, let alone Saxon and Prussian transport. This is to be 28mm I am assured.

The suspension is superbly rendered.This strikes me as more 18th than early 19th Century but, of course, many a monarch would use a veteran vehicle. I think it is more Louis XVI than XIV or XVIII, but I know which one I am aiming for. The challenge is to find someone who looks like Orson Welles in 28mm. I think I may have………..

Last Hussar, to have produced that suspension in 10mm (!!!!!!!!) let alone that flag painting. Respect.

Very impressive.

Tony

You credit me too much! Or, as I suspect, sarcasm :) !

Its Pendraken casting, though my skills are challenged by the gluing. I don't think I could do justice to the OP. I was really pointing out the advantage of The One True Scale.

I think I'd be too scared to use the Op on the table, looks too fragile. I'm looking for some carriage racing rules Formula 1 meets Ben Hur, around the streets of Paris.

No, I was being serious, Last Hussar. I had not seen this model before and to cast this in 10mm scale cannot be easy. Anyone can make a box and stick four wheels to it, it is the springs that make it look like a coach. I thought it was scratch built. I can imgaine the fun gluing this. One drop of superglue overdone and the thing is lost in a blob!

Minden Miniatures makes a seated Marshal Maurice de Saxe that was made for the wicker coach that Westphalia recently released. Perhaps Minden will add some more seated coach passengers to its figure range.

Now if you were a member of the A Military Gentleman (AMG) forum, then you could have seen this model as it was built step by step. If you own a copy of John Ray's book of the same title, then you are eligible to join the forum. If you don't own a copy, then hurry and buy one because John is nearly sold out and he does not plan to run a reprint.

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It's very limited in terms of useage, but AWI gamers might like to know that after Howe's return to England in May 1778, Clinton seems to have acquired a coach (design not known) which he used as C-in-C North America. He may have had it before that in NYC itself.

This vehicle is rumoured to have been captured by a group of Morgan's riflemen after the British had embarked at Sandy Hook for the return to NYC at the end of the Monmouth campaign.

Deadhead, its more of a case of not gluing your thumbs to everything!