"BOKI 1:100 pre-1798 Austrian Cavalry." Topic

those are great Sho

I like the Conehead guy.

great sculpting, how do you control the head size – just sculpting without the body of the figure, that must be really difficult

I learn, how. The left one, late chevauleger, fit with big 18mm. The early chevauleger in middle are etalon. The secret is – smaller amount of sculpting material are better. With big amount there will be overscaled coneheads.

How are you getting on with the sculpting?

Sculpts waited for moulding. I now cast 6mm figures.

Whole project looks great. Cant wait to see the final product.

a long silence – hopefully some progress

I'm disappointed. I thought there was progress when I saw the thread had been bumped up.

I am starting to worry

Nothing to worry about.
I casted, sorted, cleaned and packed my 6mm limited edition of 1812 russian infantry. Do some background works that must be done anyway, like painting these, preparing flag sheets, wrote rules etc. Many problems comes out according to this scale, including calculations, that selling these may be not cover the costs for producing. Time consuming is too high.

On this week I finish mould for 1:100 half-way figures and on next week continue sculpting these. Then it will be clear, can separate heads work or one piece figures must be done.

Halfway mould ready, sculpting continue..

Early Chevaulegger.

looks good, remember in 1792 they wouldn't have a lace any longer around the Kaskett – unless being an NCO and then the NCO wouldn't carry a carabine

These are looking great. I'll start saving now.

How are you getting on with these? Any progress?

Exactly now I sculpt cuirassieur and wonder.. sculpt gloves or not. I think, I sculpt.

If this year moulding silicone shipment reach me ontime, then beginning of May they will be on sale.

Great news Sho. I'm really looking forward to seeing these complete.

What are your thoughts for what's next?

I would opt for no glooves for the troopers, for officers – yes, look at most contemporary prints, troopers are usually depicted without gloves.

I don't think yet what's next. Will see..

von Winterfeldt. OK, no gloves.

Cuirassieur and Dragoon troopers before moulding..

Fantastic!! I need Dragoons. Actually, for my army list I need 103 Dragoons. Not sure I can afford that many, but I'll be buying at least 24 to start with.

Are you doing separate officers?

Yes, together with infantry officers, but slightly later. After I mould current projects.

wow – I am impressed, well done

Oops.. I see that I forgot oak leafs.
Happily I discover this ontime..

Chevauleggers..

great looking unit – well there Austrian cavalry regiments were quite strong, I will need quite a few of those

I'm really looking forward to being able to get some of these and try some paint on them. They look like they'll turn out great.

Colin

Well one has a lot of choice CL in green or white coats, and or as special unit Latour CL / Dragoons, which were granted the green coat and hat – as distinction, confirmed by the Züricher picture manuscript.

There are doubts that swords maybe are not massive enough.
So here are picture from side.

For me swords looks normal.. what you think?

The one on the figure in the shako looks more thin/fragile than those of the two bicorne figures. Having said that, it's probably more "correct to scale" than theirs, and I would have thought not very likely to break on that particular pose. Your only problem with something that thin might be consistency in casting.

I think the swords look fine. Once painted metallic they should shine out and look as they should.

Colin

I will commit to buy about 50 to 75 of these, half cuirassiers and half chevu legers. Do you have plans for command figures? When are they available for sale? Appreciate your efforts to expand French Rev period. Fantastic!

Today evening I will get my moulding silicone at last. So tomorrow I begin to make moulds and on the end of next week they probably will be on sale.
Command figures followed later. I must sculpt these.

I know only little about Rev period. We must thank von Winterfeldt, who supply me with info and courage to sculpt this period.

If you fancy doing one more Austrian cavalry figure, you could give one of the Cuirassiers a Lobster Pot helmet. According to Haythornthwaite they still wore these until the 1780s, especially against the Ottomans.

If von Winterfeldt supplied me with pictures of this Lobster helmet, then why not. I have only one frontal picture of such austrian helmet from beginning of century.
I will additionally sculpt more earlier Austrians with tricornes and chevauleggers without frontal peak anyway, so Lobster helmets fit in well.

I can only find the frontal image from Haythorthwaite's "Uniforms of the Revolutionary Wars".

First casts.
Too many little bubbles, clearing is nightmare. Must correct the mould or make new one.

They look fine in this image.

Can you reuse the metal on miscast miniatures or are they wasted?

Just spotted the Oak Leaves. That's a nice little detail. Well done!

Colin

These figs on picture are already cleared and this bubbles mostly stay invisible anyway on this scale of photo.
But when you paint them or take closer look, the bubbles will be really annoying.

Yes, I reuse the metal. This is very expensive material and cannot be wasted. And bubbles aren't the metal problem, these are the result of mould defects.

I decided to resculpt masters a little and make new mould.

Ok, just let us know when they are ready. I have funds sitting waiting to get sent in your direction.

They will come out as sceduled – on the end of week.
I only fill some unnecessary negative angles and fix defect on boots they all have from previous half-way castings.
I don't make new time consuming plasticine mastermould for first side of mould, but use last silicone one. So it will be relatively quick. One third of figs are already resculpted.

Only chevauleggers get now his mould later, so they probably will be on sale on the end of next week.

Infantry Officer progressing..

Keep going. :)

Cool. I have a horse with a space for him, ready and waiting.

I lost second mould too.
I cleaned masters with silicone hardener and as result they stay so sticky for silicone, that I can't to separate masters from mould without destroying the mould.
After new cleaning I made third mould, by smearing figures with lubricant. Castings are not so sharp as from first mould now, but they are without microbubbles. One figure still have one big but detachable bubble on back.

I casted some amount of them and they are available now, but official launching I do after painting them.

what a downer with the mould making, it must be very frustrating for you, a pitty for the loss of detail – the mounted officer looks excellent – full of character.

About the helmet, I don't know – it was already discared in case I remember correclty before the 7YW, no immage therefore in the 1767 regulation

After examing the castings today in bright sunlight, I decided to make fourth mould. They must be better (sharper). So masters are in Fairy now..

I think that I found right helmet picture, so I sculpt one or two cuirassieur for Turkish front.