| Tango01 | 28 Nov 2014 9:50 p.m. PST |
Cool!
1/72.
More here.
link Hope you enjoy! Amicalement
Armand |
 deadhead  | 29 Nov 2014 10:28 a.m. PST |
I can only say it again. Why is it only in 1/72 that we get figures this well proportioned? Their heads, their hands, leg length, ratio to horse size…all correct. I know the excuse for 28mm is that they are meant to be viewed from above on a table and look "right" then……… But surely so are these? Cool? Freezing! -273C in fact……..! |
| Widowson | 29 Nov 2014 10:42 a.m. PST |
Uwe is an extraordinary sculptor. That's the long and short of it. The guys at Art Miniaturen are also excellent. Maybe British and American sculptors are too stylish for their own good, or just not as good as their continental counterparts. |
| Tango01 | 29 Nov 2014 11:38 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed them my friends!. (smile)
1/72 RULES!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| deadhead | 29 Nov 2014 12:40 p.m. PST |
I begin to think it does( rule) . But I dropped 1/72 in early 70s! As Widowson suggests, there is something odd about "style" in other scales… 28 mm figs can seem like caricatures of humans. Hobbits even. Calpe, Westfalia, most Perrys (most…….not all) never are stunted folk with hands below their knees. But so many…..Front Rank cavalry are superb castings, but with a right arm as thick as the trooper's waist and emerging from the thorax at a strange angle (until recently, I admit) It is not just Uwe's work (which is mind-blowing) that is so good. Everyone working in 1/72, usually from Germany, seems to produce correctly proportioned humans. They can be "spindly" sometimes (that may never translate beyond English, but I know what it means). Even so. There is only one scale that allows enough detail, but also enough figures on a shelf…and that is 28mm (or, in some hands, 6mm) unless you have this skill…… Oh for God's sake. Why have we not all agreed on a scale (or at least one or two) after all this time? |
| Mike Petro | 29 Nov 2014 4:09 p.m. PST |
Idk Deadhead…horses look really small to trooper. Maybe I'm wrong but it appears that way. Beautiful figures anyway! |
| von Winterfeldt | 30 Nov 2014 12:51 a.m. PST |
The horses are spot on, most 28 mm horses are elephants compared to the troopers who look like dwarfs – cavalry is even worse compared to human anatomy in 28 mm as Deadhead points out. As for the above figures – one has to wait for the casts – where often the reins are incomplete or not cast at all. Here amongst elso – some Bavarian dragoons of about 1802
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 ochoin | 30 Nov 2014 6:11 a.m. PST |
Not by Uwe, who runs the shop (great fellow BTW) but sculpted by Massimo, who is Italian. I have some SYW French generals I commissioned from Massimo. He's a wonderful talent. |
| deadhead | 30 Nov 2014 9:09 a.m. PST |
Massimo, look into your heart. Embrace the Dark Side you should. 28mm your scale should be. But strong the Smaller Scale is…… The horses are small but these are light cavalry. When we see military or police horses today, these are heavies and designed for parades or crowd control…..and in superb condition. Not a nag that is half starved and knackered. What about the sculpting of the fellow off his horse….how novel is that? |
| The Bavarian | 01 Dec 2014 5:05 a.m. PST |
Hi Winterfeldt, tell me how to cast the reigns in metal and we will do it.
So far it wasn't simply possible and people could make them from paper, wire etc. like I do. The Bavarians from your painting here are 180 cheers
uwe |
| von Winterfeldt | 01 Dec 2014 2:18 p.m. PST |
@The Bavarian You ask the wrong person, there are two approaches to solve the problem 1 – ask the mould maker – in case he cannot cast it he should tell you why 2 – then ask the sculptor to sculpt the reins in that way so that they can be cast. A pity that the reigns do not work out so far, there the masters look first class. |
| KaweWeissiZadeh | 01 Dec 2014 3:35 p.m. PST |
If somebody 'can' than that's Joerg Schilling. Look at what he did for Francesco M. … Groundbreaking work really. |
