1st Minnesota at Gettysburg vignette

[Jason W.]

Hi everyone. Here's one of my latest pieces. It's a vignette of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2nd, 1863.

The 1st numbered 262 men on the evening of July 2nd and were in the path of Confederate General Cadmus Wilcox's brigade of Alabama troops. With the Federal center giving way the 1st stood fast. General Winfield Scott Hancock, commander of the Federal 2nd Corps, rode up to the regiments Colonel, William Colvill, Jr., Hancock exclamined, "My God, are these all the men we have here? What regiment is this? "First Minnesota," Colvill responded.
Hancock pointed to the oncoming Confederates and snapped, "Advance, colonel, and take those colors!"

Soldier Alfred Carpenter remembered, "Comrade after comrade dropped from the ranks; but on the line went. No one took a second look at his fallen companion. We had no time to weep."

The 1st charged forward plowing into the oncoming foe. With the rebel line stalled, Colvill's regiment bought the Union five precious minutes to re-enforce the weakened line. Time paid for with the blood of two thirds of those who made the charge.

Thanks for looking,

Jason

 

[KeithP]

Beautiful work Jason, you should be very proud of this work.

It looks like water splashing out of that canteen? How did you do that?
Are these conversions or complete sculpts?

Keith

 

[Dan Morton]

Great action, Jason!

That's a fine action piece! The water and moving cords are terrific.

All the best,
Dan

 

[Sambaman]

WOW! Jason, that is a beauty! Really nice action and the painting is top notch. Very nice work.

Jay H.
OKC

 

[garyjd]

Jason, First rate sculpting and animation. The water coming out of the canteen was a nice little touch. Great stuff pard.~Gary

 

[MikkoH]

Very nicely captured action and movement! I like this!

Cheers Mikko

 

[georges64]

Nicely done Jason,I like the canteen with the splashed water!!How did you do that?
georges

 

[Christos]

Great vignette my friend!
best regards
christos

 

[John Belcher]

Hi Jason,Great piece of art.Fantastic animation.Great faces with a top rate paint job.Really enjoyed looking at your work.Kind regards John

 

[Major_Goose]

Adorable work !!!! Bravooooooooo

 

[MAB]

Hi Jason
Compliment one Good Work and much good the composition Scene.
Bravo and good continue
Saluti MAB

 

[vitike]

Great work. Really good painting and a vignette with lot of movement. Congrats.

Regards

 

[Anders Heintz]

Excellent sculpting Jason, the middle guy is awesome. Keep it up!

 

[vergilius]

I love the civil war and this is a very fine piece you've made. Wish I had it in my display.

 

[Sambaman]

I just noticed the sweat and salt stains on the unfortunate soldiers hat! Really nice touch!

JAy H.
OKC

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Absolutly among the best that Ive seen from you, Jason.

Looks like you been weathering them more than usual. I like that.
The posing is vere effective.

Cheers

 

[Markus]

Hello Jason,

wonderful work !!! Sculpting and painting !!!

Cheers,
Markus

 

[megroot]

Echo all the others.
Extremely well done vignette.

Marc

 

[Guy]

Fantastic work Jason.

 

[Jason W.]

Thanks Keith, Dan, Gary, Mikko and Georges! Christos, John, Costas, MAB and Vitike! I appreciate the kind words. Markus, Anders, Marc, Vergilius and Guy, thank you.

Jay, I'm glad you noticed the sweat stains! I was affraid people would mistake it as a glue spot that wasn't painted over! Having owned many sweat stained hats myself, I thought this would help give the figure more "life".

What I did for the water spout was take very small fibers from a cotton swab and super glued it to the spout. Using a toothpick, I took 3 minute epoxy glue and gently dabed it to the fibers...This is tedious work and some patience is needed...And carefully use an upward stroke until the epoxy starts to cure.
I first tried this technique many years ago with a model figure that was simulating being gun shot. I took a dark red gloss paint and painted over the cured epoxy. The result was very effective. Not sure how it would play with show viewing public as it is a bit graphic.

Thanks again, guys!