Recent content by Paul20100

One suggestion for lights on the red: Brueghel red from Lefranc... although officially discontinued. B. Leibovitz uses it.

Many thanks!

Hello Ricardo. Very nice sculpt! What are your sources for the uniform? Most documents refer to post-1809 (but there is no reason to believe the uniform was substantially different 2 years before). The Marckolsheim manuscript also seems to mention an unusal braid pattern for the shako, which has...

Good suggestion, will follow.

And now finished!

Ah ah! Well, not exactly 12 years. 2 copies of the same figure. First one got 'total loss' in 2011, second one got purchased about 5 years ago, then ups and downs, lack of time, etc. Happy to call it done now and move to other projects.

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Hello friends! Guess what, that piece I started so many years ago is now finished.

Thanks all for the compliments. Ok Nap I will look into the FOTM.

Just completed.

Hello friends. I have started painting the horse this week. Criticism welcome!

Final steps on the horse before starting to paint the flag.

The flag pole is made from a wooden toothpick, primed with Humbrol as is the rest of the figure. I tried to use masking tape to get the perfect spacing between the colored stripes but the manipulation was too risky for the upper part of the flag (which you don't see in the pictures) so I finally...

Hi everyone. Back to business after 1 1/2yrs or so.