"Art Miniaturen 1st Uhlan Regt" Topic

Another small contribution to the Waterloo project of thomaspicton. Only 23 of them with two NCOs, an officer and a trumpeter, but it is a start.

We have seen some amazing work in constructing Plancenoit lately and these chaps, 1st West Prussian Uhlans belong there as part of IV Corps;

Nicely done, any idea when the project will be done?

Well if he was relying on my input I know the answer…..I think my total is less than 150 so far. Scattered between these Uhlans, Hussars, Dragoons, 3rd Silesian, 1st/2nd Neumark and Elbe Landwehr cavalry and a bunch of casualties. I had thought of converting some Saxon Hussars next, but am not convinced by the figures I got. Not remotely to this standard of casting.

But James does fortunately have an expanding team of volunteers, mass producing figures and everything seems currently concentrated on Placenoit and the Prussian assault on the French right and rear. The Allies on the ridge and the French 1st and 2nd Corps, plus IG seem well advanced now.

Beautiful!

John

Thanks for that. I tried a few new things here. I wanted to speed up the horse painting, so I thought I would try the new Contrast Range from Citadel (ie GW). Now the snag is the need to undercoat in White or Ivory and not my usual Black. The horses worked out fine, but in the end saved little time, once the harness, black for bays, face markings, need for matt varnish to protect from trauma etc. Did allow me to do my first true chestnuts in this scale however.

But the riders? Never again. I know about the vibrant colours argument, but any tiny imperfection or paint chip shows up stark white.

My great discovery was the wet pallet. Often heard about it. Homemade for about three quid and simply incredible difference. That is a never-again-without-it thing.

Outstanding!. I gave up 1/72 scale years ago, but these…

These are lovely and a great addition to the project, many thanks Deadhead! For those who are interested, you can track progress on the Blog at generalpicton.blogspot.com

Many thanks. Plancenoit is just amazing, but so good one suspects DoW might have been "not best suited", as we say oop North.

Totally agree about 1/72. Moi aussi, but now back in with a vengeance, both for this project and 2eme DB of WWII (for which I now also have two 1/35 kits, transfers and some figures to convert!)

Just noticed my typo error above. I hope folk are not scouring haulage firms for wooden pallets to soak. I meant palette (and certainly not palate either).

Wonderful figures and painting!

L
What a beaut bunch of fellows indeed.
Not my area, but should the jaeger guy have a lance?
cheers d

For some reason the parallel thread about the actual diorama doesn't appear in the main message board, but here it is: TMP link This where Deadhead's wonderful figures will enter the Plancenoit battle.

Link has gone wrong but well worth showing more of your work around Plancenoit. It is going to be superb to display.

The Jaeger with a lance? Good point and I did agonise. I did two NCOs without (I was actually one lance short in the packaging anyway) and gave them the appropriate lace. The Mt St Jean site shows him carrying one with a white over green pennant. I stuck with white over black though.

A Knotel print shows Landwehr Chasseurs carrying lances. Really not sure. My understanding was that these were officer candidates and should have been more skilled with a firearm than a long spiky pole

let me attach the link to the Plancenoit portion of the diorama, where these chaps will serve. I have never seen anyone recreate the area south of the village, towards the Lasne brook. The very bottom photo shows the whole set up, looking north. It is just incredible work and deserves all of our support however modest (as mine is numerically!)

TMP link