"French Marshal Broglie and staff" Topic

Dear all,

I have completed my latest paint-job. My new French high command stand including a real "maréchal de France".
Have a look at my Blog if you like.

Cheers,
Christian
crogges7ywarmies.blogspot.com

Beautiful!

I like!

amazing as always.

Excellent work. Always like looking at the 3D you get out of flats. :)

Cheers

Magnifique.

I gamed with flats a long time ago. Nice if you manage to look sideways, weird from front. Unfortunately gaming is often from front. All minis consistently well done and proportioned well researched.
Another advantage, one can cram a lot in the unitfrontage.

There are a few flats sculpted as front and back views, which I've long been tempted by. Would solve the depth distortion problem at one stroke. However I have so far been unable to ascertain whether all the main troop types for, say, the Seven Years War are represented in such poses?

@Jcfrog,
I started wargaming with flats a long time ago, when you couldn't buy anything else here in Germany aside from Airfix plastics with very limited ranges. So, playing with flats was never questioned for lack of alternative. I became so used to it that I never bothered "not to see" the troops being immediately to your front.

@ Musketier,
Yes, there are many frontal poses available, though, not as many as with the profile or half-profile view. As for Prussians and Austrians, all troop types should be available – possibly not the more exotic types such as Kleist Croats, Bosniaks and Jägers, etc.
In fact, my late gaming opponent did base a set of Prussian Bülow Fusiliers frontal wise in two ranks. It's miniatures made after the Zorndorf painting, so well known.
He also has a stand of Prussian dragoons charging in frontal poses. We based them on the usual volley and bayonet brigade base 3x3 inches in a diagonal manner at 45° so to say. Now they always get the morale plus for charging in flank at all times and all situations ;-)))
For other armies, such as French and Russians, you'll find yourself in trouble very soon, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Christian
crogges7ywarmies.blogspot.com

Imagination is a strange thing … I also have no problem with flats being 2D rather than 3D. I much prefer the traditional view point.

These updates are always inspiring – thanks for posting them ! My flats collection is almost exclusively ancients thus far … but this is a period I hope to tackle before long …

Phil

Fantastic, like the "Rousellot style" you're developing a great deal. I'm getting into flats -- do I have this right? You wait until the underlying color has dried, then apply shadow / highlight and, while wet, use more of the underlying color to blend the shadow / highlight?

@ Oberst Radl,

"do I have this right? You wait until the underlying color has dried, then apply shadow / highlight and, while wet, use more of the underlying color to blend the shadow / highlight?"

Yes, thats pretty much just the way I do it. Just the face and the hands you may well do the lightening work while the base furnish is still wet. I have better results this way here.

Thank you very much. I just got my first flats and will try your technique -- I didn't have much luck with using two wet colors on some 54mms I tried. Keep up the painting -- beautiful period and flats!

Looking for Translators

I used to design war games for SPI & OSG, and have written several books. I am currently finishing two new books: the first on warfare from the beginning of the Italian Wars to the end of the Thirty Years' War. I'm am also about to attempt to publish a modularized encyclopedia of tactics during the 1494-186 period.

I have collected a truly vast array of period primary sources. I read French but slowly and have to work my way through a mountain of highly detailed information about tactics.

The effort would be greatly speeded up if I can find a number of people willing to help with translations.

Do you think anyone in your club or that you know would be interested in helping?

If so, I can be reached at Brentnose@aol.com.

Thank you for your help in this matter,

Brent Nosworthy