"Art Miniaturen 3rd Silesian Landwehr" Topic

Some more figures for the Waterloo project by ThomasPicton. Only 28 of them, but really nice models from Art Miniaturen.

Now I have to entrust them to HM's postal service (gulp)

Very nice indeed Mr D.

Personally I think you have worked wonders with these guys.

The Art Miniturian figures are nice and chunky but the castings are not prone to fine detail so well done.

Your backgrounds are really nice but the last one in my opinion is the best.

The Versailles one has caught the optical bends but the last two. Brilliant.

A few of the Stretlets civilians to cheer them on and we would be back in 1815!

The good General will be very pleased.

Best wishes,

Chris

Just to echo Chris, these are truly wonderful. The Versailles picture is obviously a few days after Waterloo – a quick bit of tourism before arriving in Paris for these battle hardened veterans. Many thanks to Deadhead!

Great work.

Superb!
IHNM…

Versailles? Not so sure. I think they got even more lost and ended up at Fontainebleau, but I am blowed if I can find where I got the original photo! I really have no idea but I think not Versailles.

That second photo? I took dozens, with the camera lowered progressively and angled up on a massive tripod, until the chap's lance at the far left was parallel to the window frame behind him. (I do need to get out more). I could have used Photoshop but try not to. That is cheating…..

All I want is to hear they get there in one piece, through our postal system. The lances are not those with the Landwehr (which are wire and tough as nails). These are nicely to scale, but which means they are soft and bendy and prone to metal fatigue in the end. Not keen on the moulded pennants either (let me add them from wine top foil any day). These do defy the laws of Geometry occasionally also (but that is another story).

I gather these figures are a reissue and they seem slightly different to what you see on the AM gallery. They now have INCREDIBLE detail, which only became evident as I painted.

I will still say that 1/72 is not TOTS, but you can pack more into a box!

I still have guilt when I contribute Prussian cavalry in numbers of 20s or 30s for this project. Others are doing hundreds at a time.

Wow, those are beautiful, great brushwork, kudos and thank you for sharing.

20mm; love the scale, big enough to capture nice detail and brushwork like this is appreciated, 28mm is too big IMO, 15mm is too small and anything below that is a total non starter for me.

These look terrific…………………

dH
hope you have enough bottles left!
Retirement has depleted my store- the aluminium seems as good tho.

I haven't created any lancers for decades. I did use just wrapped paper well glued with pva that leaves them flexible, then 'cured' the surface with heavy lashings of white matt for undercoat.

Even used slim card affixed vertically to lead lancer/ staffs and it actually has held up since. Not on active service of course, but 'he' may have to come out one day if I get along with my 'The After Years' add-ons.
d

I must get out more – Fontainebleu not Versailles!

I think it is F, but not 100% convinced. Blowed if I recall where I took this.

Thanks all for the feedback. Main thing is they got there within 24 hours and all in one piece. Amazing what masses of bubblewrap can do.

Now the Neumark Landwehr next with the stovepipe shako? Head swap? Or grind down the traditional model………HMMM..

Snag is that the Waterloo project will then end up with a few dozen of every Prussian cavalry unit that turned up before dark at "Waterloo", but not the hundreds of each needed!

Not only the miniatures adding the photograph background it's almost lifelike.

Tell you the truth.

This is totally cheating.

Real skill is modelling a background like that.

Instead I find a high definition photograph on a satin finish print for the background.

Huge depth of focus (that does take some doing). That is a long story but vital. Then the angle of shot to fit in with the background photo (I rarely get that right, but did here by taking 20 shots in sequence, raising the camera on a massive tripod, and picking the best).

Any idiot would not have done what I did. Pics 2 and 3 above I changed the background photo, but with the figures themselves totally unchanged. I now see dozens of photos, where I did swap them around of course, but not when it mattered.

No, full credit to those who make their own buildings that look so real. I am still new to this.