Completed Critique British Life Guard 1815 (AIRFIX 54mm)

[kaz6120]

Hola pF amigos,

I've just finished my another old-kit revival project.

Here's WIP images:

I'm not sure all the equipments I scratch-built are historically correct, especially leopard skin, which I don't know if it actually used by life guards, but I just wanted to make it.

Any comment are welcome, as aways.

 

[housecarl]

Not belittling Airfix, but this is hard to believe that's how this started out.
Superb work,
Carl.

 

[eas6644]

That is fantastic work right there.
Ed

 

[Meehan34]

This looks excellent!

 

[pmfs]

Excelent work!

 

[sam b]

Really nice work, I love the sloping ground
well done
sam

 

[Martin64]

Awesome! Very nice paintjob! Did you use the original head or a replacement? Regards Martin

 

[kansas kid]

This is indeed excellent work, even when considering the soft detail of those
54mm Napoleonic kit by Airfix from so many years ago.

Congratulations on a beautiful job.

Jaybird

 

[mil-mart]

Beautiful painting.

Cheers Ken

 

[gudel]

Nice work.
Gus

 

[Whitney]

Really nice work

 

[grenadier]

I realy like your treatment of this old kit. It caught my attention right away.
Not sure about a trooper having a Leopardskin saddle, but so what, it looks good.

 

[kaz6120]

Thank you very much for your warm compliments, Carl, Ed, Mike, Pedro, sam, Martin, Rick, Ken, Gustavo, Whitney, grenadier! I really appreciate it.

I love the sloping ground

Thank you very much sam, this is one of the points I wanted to emphasize in this vignette, I try not use flat ground which is no effect on moving things. I thought terrain 3 dimensionally to express the horse moving down the hill. I'm glad someone notice this point.

Did you use the original head or a replacement?

No Martin, I didn't use replacement head. As I showed in WIP pictures I used original head, added re-sculpted ears only. I didn't dig up or re-work the molds on the face neither, I wanted to try how much I can do on the soft molded face by only using paint work.

even when considering the soft detail of those
54mm Napoleonic kit by Airfix from so many years ago.

Yes, this is why I named this project "old-kit revival", I wanted to give life to good' old kits.

Not sure about a trooper having a Leopardskin saddle, but so what, it looks good.

Thank you very much grenadier, I'm relieved. I got an information that the leopardskin is used a lot in French Army after I built it...so if this was historically incorrect, it was too late to fix it.

 

[rheath]

Superb mate on a simple kit, nice one !!

 

[pipetrepid]

kazufumi, very well done! bill

 

[unknown01]

Hi! Kazufumi.
I was waiting for completion of your work pleasantly.
I was also seeing your blog,it was amazing progress.
This work is a wonderful finish.
It was brilliant and built into a gorgeous work.
Indeed the masterpiece which is Great.
I congratulate completion.

Mitsutaka.

 

[gothicgeek]

Very impressive!



Mark

 

[kaz6120]

Thank you very much Rob, william, Mitsutaka, mark!

I was also seeing your blog,it was amazing progress.This work is a wonderful finish.

Thank you very much for watching WIP articles in my blog Mitsutaka, I'm glad.

I have spend too much time on painting face, it took about about 10 days to finish. Painting realistic face on plain old mold is really a hard work, it was harder than I thought.

There's some small details better to fix, and severall cut-corners in painting work, because I lost my energy by painting face.

 

[kaz6120]

Here's also a great thread to know AIRFIX 54mm series by Mick Toal.

http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?p=374034

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Great to see craftsmanship.

By using basic techniques, taking some care, and applying Patience and persistence, a older kit has been brought up to a real winner, able to stand up t a more modern sample.

Subarashii desu ne!