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Yes, I lived in a basement in Il, in Chicago in fact, a nasty moist place that grew fungi. Nothing will recover your ruined stuff, but if you are a married man, you may want to consider having your wife sleep in the basement and keeping the important stuff, like your books and figures, in the...

Hi, Gary. Like Enion says. My guess, though, is that this figure is a "one off" for you, rather than part of a Peninsula War collection, so the following may help: The Battle of Barrosa took place on the 5th of March, 1811, on route to Cadiz, which is on the southern tip of Spain, only about 50...

This is the most interesting and moving set of figures that I have seen here and depicts the worst batallion loss for the British in the peninsular campaign and the greatest loss to the Buffs in their history. On the morning of May 16 !815, for whatever reason -- and plenty have been given --...

You are right, Gordy, I should have given a reference, but the fact is that I was merely giving deviations from standard regulations of the time off the top of my head in the naive belief that they were common knowledge to anyone familiar with the period. The errors do not involve any subtle...

It is a pity that this attractive and well modelled fellow has so littl in common with a sergeant of the 31st (or Huntingtonshire) Regiment of 1809. The stovepipe shako, which should be about 9" tall is, when compared with the hand, much too short. The plume, cockade and peak are too large and...

And back at the hussar bust, it is something that no collector of Imperial German Cavalry (me! me!) can pass up. The fingers of the left hand appear to be a little longer and thinner than they should, but that might be the result of the pic's perpsective. As I have propbably mentioned before...

How great to see a pre Victorian British soldier, again! He will be my 73rd BD present, coming due in a few days! I guess we should look at Einion's issues, though. The hackle should probably be removed and reworked by anyone who knows what the real thing looked like. You can get a fair idea...

Impossible!;) http://img2.visualizeus.com/thumbs/09/04/04/audrey,hepburn,black,and,white,legend,portrait,black,,,white,photography-c499c54ee1a02f04e97e6803e4184db3_h.jpg

Unless I am missing something important here, I would say that this sounds exactly like the corrosion that we used to see when a lead alloy was being used, what Henri Lion called "the cancer of lead figures". Lead, of course is banned, now, but there have been plenty of instances of it still...

We've already had one "Wow!" and one "Absolute Wow!" so I'll raise them one Wowissimo! This is as good as anything that I have ever seen, and the fact that it is based on a purely static, painterly scene, instead of being full of action or human interest, makes it the more remarkable...

What a nice, unusual figure! The left (raised) boot, though, appears to be longer and thinner than the right. Is that so, or is it merely a trick of perspective?

Oh dear, Mitsutaka, our American members, fine painters all, are not up one their Western etymology. The title is not, I think, based on the famous movie -- certainly,. the figure looks nothing like Gary Cooper. Your figure and the movie are named for the traditional time of day, when the sun is...

This is really great. I had the pic of Sharbat Gula on the cover of National Geographic for years. I would never try to paint the bust, though. I could never do it justice, but I look forward to someone bringing those eyes to life, bismillah.

Ha,ha! If I remember rightly, the Mekon had a mean, green, baby face and a HUGE head! I may be wrong, though, I haven't see him in nearly 60 years! (Think I'll Google him...thanks!) Dan Dare! Pilot of the Future! (And British to the Core!)

If you are looking for something different in powder pigments, check out Cres-Lite powders in 10G jars. They come in a full range of metallics and metallic colours, and you use them so sparingly that I still have jars that are over two decades old. I have also gotten interesting effects by...

My two favorites were the English edition of Tradition and Campaigns. I don't see any figure painting mags on my local, rather extensive, magazine rack and so don't buy any, turning instead to the free and proprietary tutorials on the internet. I did discover a few months ago, however, a DVD...

I agree, but the main problem with this horse is the sculpt. It is way too long! Measure it out! As for toning down the contrast, mate, if you are thinking of adding a figure to the vignette, you might want to see how the figure's contrast fits with the horse as is before making any changes. I...

Yeah, I've used a motor tool for over forty years, I've always bought Dremel and it has paid off; I still have my first old non-variable speed drill, which I keep as a reserve. When it stopped working, I checked the brushes and replaced them anyway, though they still looked good. All the old...

Beautiful paint job! But isn't the the horse way too long in relation to its height?

A great bust and it takes a lot for any figure post 1900 to impress me! I do agree with Grant, though, that the corporal's chevrons are rather too white and could be warmed up a little, perhaps with khaki.