 deadhead  | 02 Jul 2017 3:33 a.m. PST |
A quick project to share with you. A few years now I have looked at my ex Westfalia, now Black Hussar, 8pdr with guilt. Niels R sent it to me as a gift and I really did want to get around to it! (The detailing is superb). Then I recently discovered Brigade Games Miniatures, across the pond and, somehow, rarely seen on Napoleonic TMP. The recent Chosen Men may change that and I have a bunch of their KGL half done, to stick into LHS…..if I ever get them finished. This is their firing crew, there is also a loading scene. link OK. Pre Bardin uniforms here and not a single 8pdr at Waterloo, but made for nice photos I thought. Think they are leaving it a bit late in the top one though? I also hope LHS is now in French hands for their sake….
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| Vielmaler | 02 Jul 2017 3:41 a.m. PST |
Nice pictures,specially the first is great :-)
Waiting for more Regards Dirk |
| ccmatty | 02 Jul 2017 4:23 a.m. PST |
Amazing! Love the paint work on the miniatures… |
| Dr Jeckyll | 02 Jul 2017 5:32 a.m. PST |
That is really good Liam!!:) those redcoats are in for a surprise in that first picture! How do you do that? Photoshop or just a picture for a backdrop? Love the one with LHS in the background, the gunners are going to get picked of fast by the KGL rifles up on those walls though!;)
You should do a photobook with narratives with all those photos of yours.. |
| deadhead | 02 Jul 2017 8:00 a.m. PST |
Cheers. Simplest thing. I just hunt for images on Google and save anything that looks good. Print as 8x6, but snag is reflection from lamps. These were gloss varnish, as I pressed the wrong button! I also watch out for high definition images in books or newspapers…latter are rubbish quality pics (pixellated), but totally matt. My next project is the Brigade Games Miniatures KGL in LHS. I have a couple of pics of the interior. The only editing is to take out the memorial plaques on the road wall. The new trees are just impossible to remove…. But you are so right. Unless this is after LHS fell to the French, these guys will be massacred. Plus I think any guns that did move up would have been HA anyway. OK, minor details, that I would always criticise. A gun that was not at Waterloo, a uniform that was obsolete and a spongeman for a howitzer (too short and he does not need a rammer end for a howitzer) But, at least they are all in the right place and no one has forgotten that this gun is about to recoil big time. |
 Artilleryman | 02 Jul 2017 9:37 a.m. PST |
Nicely done. I particularly liked the gunner with the two traversing spikes. I assume he was converted from one of the men carrying the ammunition box? |
| deadhead | 02 Jul 2017 9:54 a.m. PST |
Yes, I like him too, because I think how clever I have been. The loading figures do come with a coiffet…coiffure…I simply cannot remember the term after an exceptionally good Sunday lunch in the village pub……Mrs F is sound asleep and snoring. The two 22 year old sons are at the same level of consciousness, either in their bedrooms. The 8pdr from Westfalia came with a mass of artillery tools. The figures from Brig Games Mins lacked the little ammo box, whatever it is called en Francais. Ah ha, parce que, the artillery firing set does not include the ammo box (the loading set does) These guys are meant to be standing ready, but I took the trail spikes, chopped each in half, applied super glue…..much cursing, as the remnants stuck to everything, me included, excepting the figures. Got there in the end! and I admit, if he aims the gun, he should have, at least, corporal stripes on his sleeves. OK another problem. Wrong uniform for 1815, wrong gun for Waterloo, wrong spongeman for what is not a howitzer and now no commander….. But apart from that…..totally accurate…ish |
| Artilleryman | 02 Jul 2017 4:43 p.m. PST |
Do not beat yourself up. Not every corporal survives battle. During the engagement, sometimes the other gun numbers have to step up to new tasks. Serrez les rangs! |
| 79thPA | 03 Jul 2017 8:32 p.m. PST |
You did a fine job. As a casual Napoleonic player, the things you point out as problems don't even register with me; I simply see some nice work. |
| Outlaw Tor | 21 Jul 2017 3:54 p.m. PST |
Outstanding depiction of hollow on that gun too. |
| Markconz | 21 Jul 2017 11:43 p.m. PST |
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| Phatt Rhatt | 23 Jul 2017 8:43 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 23 Jul 2017 10:30 a.m. PST |
'er indoors dropped this from a great height this Sunday morning. It was not deliberate and I was very understanding. It allowed me to increase the angle on the left wheel, which needed doing. I just knew that at least one of the trail spikes would fall off…..for the chap who is aiming the gun. All now refixed and it gave me the excuse to work more on the 71st and 52nd, before Sunday lunch in the village pub. I had great plans for this afternoon…had….at least my 71st pioneer is done, if not undercoated yet….. |
| AuvergneWargamer | 28 Jul 2017 8:10 a.m. PST |
Bonjour Liam, Shared guilt as I too have a number of ex Westfalia French guns and limbers waiting to be painted along with their Brigade Miniatures French gun crews. Been side-tracked by 20mm WW2 tank armies and 28mm Napoleonic Saxons- their Chevaux Legere are so good! – Wurttembergers and now, thanks to those excellent Perry boats: link loads of chaps for fighting in Egypt! Keep on gazing at my long-ignored Impetus armies too Cheers, Paul |
| deadhead | 28 Jul 2017 8:52 a.m. PST |
Only today my second crew arrived from USA, with a Brigade Miniatures Howitzer. First time I have seen an example of their artillery and I am impressed. Westfalia were unbeatable though, but glad to see Black Hussar keeping up the work. Same sculptor for most figures of course, Paul Hicks, so Brigade and Westfalia work well together. |
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
