"Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, 1815" Topic

The Blues are next up on my Blog, again painted for me by Carl Robson.

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Lovely work!

lovely

Lovely.

But bent/curved blades… Grrr…

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This is proving a marvellous series of images. The close up face on the very last picture….that is one I am saving as an education. Perrys do give their heavy cavalry some very chunky and curved swords and some simply cannot be straightened, as attached to the figure. Their plastics curiously have better swords, but obviously more fragile. Inspiring castings and painting….and the basing!

As per my previous comments absolutely stunning paintwork.

However,I agree the curved swords--the heavy cavalry sword was a thrusting weapon with a long straight blade--slightly mars an outstanding unit. ;)

This has been mentioned many times before and is a valid criticism of the models, not the painting. This artist is like the church steeple sniper in S'ingPR…"This guy has talent"

The rear rank is harder to fix.

The front ones, swords in the air, would be much easier. Take the very first picture, the first figure on our left. His sword is bent immediately on leaving the hilt but is then reasonably straight. A moment's work (and some courage) would fix that. Look at his hand and work out a perfect perpendicular to his knuckles, a good 30 degrees off right now. The figure on the extreme right has the whole thing curved, like a light cavalry sabre….still fixable. How well will any of this stand up to handling though?

and what inspiring work this series has proved. I do hope we will one day see them all in one picture, like the photos we see from Germany of 1/72 figures….en masse!!!

I always work with AB and I replace all swords with steel, dress makers pins are fine, hammered flat, then ground to shape with stone mounted in a Proxxon mini drill. Alternatively steel wire passed through a roller and then cut and shaped.