"The Hospital at Mt St Jean" Topic

Thought it worth showing my latest project for Waterloo Remodelled. I was volunteered into populating the courtyard of Mt St Jean, when it served as a front line hospital (I think intended for 1st Corps, but soon swamped). About 200 figures here, a mixture of 3D print, plastic and metals. Many are a bit "overdressed" as they have retained their caps/shakos and even back packs, but originally they were intended to be fallen on the field itself. They should look far more convincing once in the farmyard, shown here before and pristine then!

Impressive!

The true cost of war. Brilliant!

Excellent stuff Mr D showing the reality of warfare.

You might wish to consider the Speria ACW medics and some casualties as they are loosely dressed.

The Imex sets have some lovely civilians to put in the mix.

The Art Miniturian Prussian medics are also very useful if you can get them.

Franznap have surgeons in the pipeline.

As a medical fellow you will know that shock and blood loss is not good for the complexion.

Best wishes,

Chris

Hoping to get that Speira surgeon, patient and female assist, from ACW, indeed. Other suggestions very good too.

A very good point about acute blood loss and pallor which I had not considered. For technical reasons they cannot be cyanosed with blood loss, however moribund. Some of those you see eg the standing Household cavalryman have blood streaked faces, but all have an excessive tan I admit. Also too much bright red blood. Much more black/brown next time.

For my unfortunates I found that less is more when it comes to blood unless you are looking for a slasher movie effect.

Also, after applying the paint, dabbing it with your finger, tissue etc will splash it around a bit.

Pink is good for the frothy aerated chest wounds.

For the dead, flesh mixed with a little grey gives a ‘ pallor' for the departed.

Happy ( probably not appropriate ) modelling.

Chris

Clever and very useful tips.

"The Boss" was very specific about blood and guts. He wanted nothing too sanitised and I do still have countless limbs to put in a third, larger, cart.

Someone also made the point that the wounded at MSJ were, to some degree, a select bunch. They had to be mobile enough to make their own way there, or survivably wounded to be carried there, or senior enough to merit special treatment and not French (by late afternoon anyway)

Great and imaginative conversions

Liam's work gets more creative with every turn, he's a genius. You can link his figures up with the work on the actual farm at: link

generalpicton.blogspot.com

impressive work again, but back packs still on torso of wounded soldiers in hospital?

A very valid criticism, but see my comments in my first posting. I am hoping many of them will be relatively concealed once based, possibly with judicious use of straw? Frankly, them retaining their headgear in many cases is even more unlikely!

Frankly, them retaining their headgear in many cases is even more unlikely!

If it makes you feel better, the Quartermaster correspondence of the Coldstream Guards in late June/early July 1815 lists the men who lost their caps (shakos) in their defence of Hougoumont so that they could be billed for their replacement! I'd imagine, therefore, even the wounded would hang on to their hats if at all possible!

It makes me feel far better, as I did wonder if He Who Must Be Obeyed might reject some of these as "overdressed". What a great bit of trivia re Waterloo that is.

"Never get separated from your kit" is the eleventh principal of war.

If it is of any help Newline do 20mm bare headed ACW gunners.

Once chopped off they are very useful for your purpose.

Personally, if whacked by a ball or round shot my hat would be the last thing on my mind .

Francesco at Franznap also has a range of heads that may prove useful.

The image of the inside of a surgeons tent on the good Captains latest update is inspirational.

I did an inside shot for Antietam but this is on another level.

Best wishes,

Chris

The surgeons largely worked (invisible on the model) inside the barns (daft, as the one thing any surgeon begs for is more illumination.)

Actually, not true. There is worse. There is an old gag amongst anaesthetists, or anaesthesiologists over the Pond, that runs like this

"Can't you do anything about the bleeding here? I can't see a blooming thing"

Response;

"OK, you come and squeeze this bag and I will scrub in and see what I can do"

You have to be in the trade to follow that. But it could lead to a "discussion" at many a convention

Liam a "Tour de Force " in 20mm modelling ..as ever well thought through and constructed,,very convincing in execution (probably wrong word!),

just revisited this thread…truly amazing work!!