Tango01 | 22 Jan 2015 10:49 p.m. PST |
Great painting job here…
More here link Hope you enjoy! Amicalement Armand |
deadhead | 23 Jan 2015 1:03 a.m. PST |
Really nice painting. The shabraques especially. Ashamed to ask who the riders are. I know they are Perry plastic dragoons but with a blue, (lapelled and no fringed epaulettes) so not 11th Cuirassiers), coat and brown cross belt and no clues on the saddle cloth. Sorry to ask and surely some central German dragoons……..or Iberian, but they have me foxed |
Artilleryman | 23 Jan 2015 3:27 a.m. PST |
That's what I thought. Nice work, but who are they? |
WarWizard | 23 Jan 2015 3:54 a.m. PST |
The subtle skin tones of the horses is excellent. The riders are a 10 also. Very well done. |
deadhead | 23 Jan 2015 5:28 a.m. PST |
Oh good. I thought it was just me……I imagined contemptuous reply at my failure to spot someone from Italy, Poland, Confed of the Rhine or Iberia. They may just be a fantasy unit? |
Tango01 | 23 Jan 2015 10:17 a.m. PST |
Can be Dragoons…? Amicalement Armand |
Lord Hill | 23 Jan 2015 12:05 p.m. PST |
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deadhead | 23 Jan 2015 12:42 p.m. PST |
Dragoons (Heavy) almost certainly, but I cannot work out what nationality. Based on Perry French Dragoons and superbly done. Hard to imagine this care could have gone into a totally random choice of colours, from what is clearly a very skilled and professional artist. Is it worth chasing him up? Or is it more fun for us to identify them? I almost wondered if US, or Colonial/Tropical (badly done). They are not Restoration, that I do know. How disappointing if they proved to be nonsense…….and just carelessness…….Surely not. This is skilled work and it is as easy to paint in green as blue (actually, not so sure that is true………) |
cavalry47 | 23 Jan 2015 2:25 p.m. PST |
I need to check my Elting, but I know there were Dragoons in white/cream for Egypt Brown and I am sure Blue, mainly in the Peninsular |
cavalry47 | 23 Jan 2015 2:34 p.m. PST |
ok the 18th were in brown in the Peninsular in 1809 Elting has a Proposed Uniform in Light blue jacket "The difficulty of getting a really satisfactory green dye led to experiments with light blue uniforms and an increased variety of facing colours. After a year or so of indecision, however, the dragoons retained their traditional green." The plate shows the 8th Dragoons in 1803 with Light blue jackets and Purple facings. |
deadhead | 24 Jan 2015 4:26 a.m. PST |
Fascinating. He has taken so much effort with the painting, I could not imagine a careless mistake. Peninsula and experimental then? |
von Winterfeldt | 24 Jan 2015 5:09 a.m. PST |
dragoons with steel helmets? The grey helmets should represtend steel in my view, there the artist is doing non metallic paint technique to simulate brass or steel. |
deadhead | 24 Jan 2015 9:21 a.m. PST |
Good point and well spotted. We have seen the same error made with otherwise brilliantly painted lancers of the line as well, steel not brass. Cannot be cuirassiers, as no fringe to epaulettes…….. Maybe then just imagination………. |
Inquisitor Wappellious | 27 Jan 2015 5:54 a.m. PST |
This is a commission job, so all I can do is follow the instructions of the buyer. :-) These were the colors and treatments that were requested. Unfortunately, all of the original text is not included here, and that is discussed in the various posts (there are over 20 of these painted already!) It's been a while now, so I forget if he was after 1815 or 1813 era. He was bouncing back and forth a bit, to say the least! That certainly made things more complicated… |
deadhead | 27 Jan 2015 8:06 a.m. PST |
Well the end result is terrific. There is also a great section on photography made simple………thanks for that as well! They are Mexicans from the Alamo (discuss………) |