 deadhead  | 12 Jan 2016 12:18 p.m. PST |
We have all seen the Perry trio of Ney, Heymes and Levavasseur from the Waterloo Panorama, but I have long wanted to add this trio. Next to them is another ADC (Crabbe?) a falling cuirassier officer trying to hang on and a downed trumpeter.
The conversions were fairly simple. The ADC is Perrys' one piece Officer d'Ordnance, with aigulettes removed and the cross belt added. The horse for the cuirassier of course comes from their falling trooper (not ideal then for an officer, but with black sheepskin it will do! The cuirassier and trumpeter are converted walking dragoons.
Some details are wrong, but are as in the painting eg the simple white cord for the trumpet and especially the bright red chestnut horses for the cuirassiers throughout! I did want to do the trumpeter's lace properly though.
This was great fun and easier than expected. I did the Ney trio in my very early days and it is salutary to compare the faces of Crabbe and Levavasseur (mind you everyone struggles with his eyes being at different levels I have often noticed!)
Higher resolution images here, but all very similar as I was trying to just reproduce the painting imageshack.com/a/mIo4/1 |
| wrgmr1 | 12 Jan 2016 1:33 p.m. PST |
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| von Winterfeldt | 12 Jan 2016 1:50 p.m. PST |
wow impressive, did you all paint the background cavalry as well, I detect Grenadiers à Cheval as well. |
 Condotta | 12 Jan 2016 2:52 p.m. PST |
Deadhead, that is beautifully done. Thanks for sharing |
| deadhead | 12 Jan 2016 2:53 p.m. PST |
Oh there are Grenadiers, Dragoons of the Guard, more Gendarmes d'Elite than cuirassiers, red and Polish Lancers, Chasseurs a Cheval of the Guard etc…….but I had to crop the images. Poor Levavasseur. He has a nasty non axial proptosis of his right eye. It is either an ethmoidal mucocele or a neoplasm! (Fancy way of saying his right eye is way lower than his left……but that is how he does come). What encourages me though is how much better Crabbe's face is. I am learning. If I was doing Ney again I would try to free his sword from the horse's tail and abduct his arm, as in the painting. The cuirassiers were my very first Napoleonic figures in 30 years Of course I forgot to show the original!
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| Condotta | 12 Jan 2016 2:54 p.m. PST |
Deadhead, that is beautifully done. Thanks for sharing. Regarding the black sheepskin for the officer, that is a good manner of handling the falling horse. |
| GiloUK | 12 Jan 2016 3:05 p.m. PST |
Brilliant! Very well done. |
| wrgmr1 | 12 Jan 2016 5:19 p.m. PST |
Most of us have ashmetrical faces and or eyes, why not gaming figures? |
| stoneman1810 | 12 Jan 2016 6:57 p.m. PST |
This is great! Always admire your work!! |
| Kellerman | 13 Jan 2016 2:53 a.m. PST |
Could not be Crabbe. He had been assigned the command of the cuirassier squadrons that escorted the 1st corps attacks on its left flank (and in so doing massacred the Lunembourg and 8th KGL battalions, capturing their colors) and was later overrun by the charge of the british cavalry, in which he was badly mauled and left for dead. |
| Marcel1809 | 13 Jan 2016 11:47 a.m. PST |
You are a true artist Deadhead, this looks almost better than the actual panorma painting in Waterloo! |
| deadhead | 13 Jan 2016 12:03 p.m. PST |
Thanks folks! How I wish I had freed up Ney's sword arm…….. My favourite is the trumpeter. Three plastic figures went into him. It took three plastic horses to create his mount. Front of one horse, rear of another, with the new girth strap to cover the join, but then his left rear leg from a third! Fascinated to read about Crabbe. I have no idea who he is then, but I suspect neither did the chap who did the Panorama and painted him in. There has been a previous attempt to show him, which I have often admired, but that was just as the Perry figure, as the makers intended. May well be right! (We all struggle with Levavasseur's face) link |
| JD Lee | 13 Jan 2016 1:49 p.m. PST |
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| Gazzola | 13 Jan 2016 4:57 p.m. PST |
deadhead There is nothing else one can say other than 'wow'. |
| Marc at work | 14 Jan 2016 7:11 a.m. PST |
Looking good Liam. And with that many cavalry, soon you will be wanting to play a game with them… ANd fear not, I have nbot forgotten the surgeon for you – he looks at me each night from teh bdside cabinet as if to say "stop being lazy and go and pick up a small padded envelope"… This weekend – promise… And back to the painting – really nice work there. Goota love well painted Naps Marc |
| Gunfreak | 14 Jan 2016 7:19 a.m. PST |
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| janner | 14 Jan 2016 11:10 a.m. PST |
Cracking work!  |
| deadhead | 14 Jan 2016 1:11 p.m. PST |
Thanks again to all. Snag is (and I blame von Winterfeldt) I now have had to tackle my extra Mamelukes (How was I to know that the band rode white horses?). OK. You know the bit when you are handling a 22 scalpel (used only by abdominal surgeons, massive thing, but by me to amputate limbs for conversions….)? One slip and O+ blood everywhere this morning. Half way through the Star Wars film this afternoon (isn't it brilliant?) my finger suddenly started to spurt blood again (I do mean spurt) all over the darkened cinema (seriously, not quite Saving Private Ryan…it was just my index finger). Luckily I have 6 days off now before next time in our OR…. Now in front of Mrs F and me was this lady, in the dark and……well, let's say she will need to be visiting the professional cleaners. Imagine though her bafflement…how did the back of my coat get…etc etc? |
| John Miller | 14 Jan 2016 3:50 p.m. PST |
deadhead: Great stuff!!! I always appreciate anything on Ney and especially enjoyed the above photos of your work. How better to immortalize the "the bravest of the brave"! Thanks, John Miller |
| C M DODSON | 15 Jan 2016 4:43 a.m. PST |
Excellent work. You have in my opinion caught the 'feel' of the thing. I hope the finger gets better quickly. Chris |
gets started with Flintloque.
