WIP 40mm Maison du Roi Cavalerie, 1750's
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MarquisMini
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Love the standard and all the conversions! Well done Daniel.
Cheers,
Ken
Cheers Ken!
MarquisMini
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Beautiful day and couldn't resist to go to the backyard and snap these pictures.
The standard bearer is not ready yet, still meed to add lights and shadows to the horse but it will give you an idea of his placement in this vignette.
The standard bearer is not ready yet, still meed to add lights and shadows to the horse but it will give you an idea of his placement in this vignette.
MarquisMini
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Finished the Standard Bearer and glued him onto the base.
MarquisMini
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I have taken one of the Trumpeters of the Gendarmes de la Garde and changing him to the gardes du corp.
Their uniform was in royal blue covered by silver lace stripes , leaving a thin line of the blue, red cuffs with silver lace and false sleves.
Their uniform was in royal blue covered by silver lace stripes , leaving a thin line of the blue, red cuffs with silver lace and false sleves.
Hi Daniel
Thanks for the pics ...no doubt the BBQ was in action if weather good !
Like the trumpeter conversion , really good lining and again very distinctive
The Standard looks good in place on the groundwork
As always looking forward to seeing more
Happy benchtime
Nap
Thanks for the pics ...no doubt the BBQ was in action if weather good !
Like the trumpeter conversion , really good lining and again very distinctive
The Standard looks good in place on the groundwork
As always looking forward to seeing more
Happy benchtime
Nap
Briggsy
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Love the standard bearers horse, that is a beautiful dappled grey. The trumpeter is going to be rather stunning as well, will that be another grey horse?
Cheers Simon
Cheers Simon
MarquisMini
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MarquisMini
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Thanks Simon,
It wasn't that hard, it jist take time to get to what you are ok with Lookwise.
Cheers.
MarquisMini
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Thanks for your kind words Malc.
Looking forward to see the progress on your stuff.
Best regards.
MarquisMini
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I have decided to try a new technique,
Rather than build up the coat skirts usin putty i cut a piece of lead foil, sanded a little and glued them from the lower back to the front below the waistbelt.
Then , once the glue cured completely i sanded some areas to bring the seam line between the lead foil and figure , lead foil works pretty good when sanded right and blends perfectly onto the figure .
I was not happy with the paint lines on the back so i sanded the entire back, cleaned , primed and painted the base silver/white color, the lower portion of the skirt was base coated with scale 75 Navy blue and vallejo Royal blue.
The horse for this figure is on its way from NZ ( Triguars), that is one of the factors that made me try this technique, this way i can bend and shape the tails when i place the figure on horseback.
Rather than build up the coat skirts usin putty i cut a piece of lead foil, sanded a little and glued them from the lower back to the front below the waistbelt.
Then , once the glue cured completely i sanded some areas to bring the seam line between the lead foil and figure , lead foil works pretty good when sanded right and blends perfectly onto the figure .
I was not happy with the paint lines on the back so i sanded the entire back, cleaned , primed and painted the base silver/white color, the lower portion of the skirt was base coated with scale 75 Navy blue and vallejo Royal blue.
The horse for this figure is on its way from NZ ( Triguars), that is one of the factors that made me try this technique, this way i can bend and shape the tails when i place the figure on horseback.
Hi Daniel
A "like" isn't enough , excellent thinking using the foil , and very smoothly positioned , looking forward to seeing the NZ horse arrive
Great to see how accurate and natural your figures are
Cheers for the pics and the explanations
Happy benchtime
Nap
A "like" isn't enough , excellent thinking using the foil , and very smoothly positioned , looking forward to seeing the NZ horse arrive
Great to see how accurate and natural your figures are
Cheers for the pics and the explanations
Happy benchtime
Nap
theBaron
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Hey, it worked for Madame Desfontaines, right?
I've used foil instead of putty for an application like this, too. I....figured, that it gives me a better scale thickness, and durability in that thickness, than putty. I still will use putty, too, but it's certainly an arrow in my quiver.
And, I have a bucket full of lead foil envelopes from X-ray blanks, that I got from my dentist when he still had the old X-ray machine. It was too little an amount to warrant the cost the environmental disposal services charge, and he didn't want just to dump it. We were talking about building models and figures, and I mentioned using lead foil. He said, "Wait a minute..." and brought out the bucket. "You want this?" "Sure, Doc!"
Prost!
Brad
Briggsy
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Yeah that foils works a treat, wonder how hard it would be to take this to the extreme and make a billowing cape or similar.
Cheers Simon
Cheers Simon
MarquisMini
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That is so nice of your dentist!.
I will have to start searching for more Lead foil, really hard to get tyem these days.
Cheers!
MarquisMini
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Briggsy
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You have more faith in my abilities than I do, I seem to recall back in the 70's & 80's people used to use stiffened tissue paper to make billowing robes and such like. Might all be academic anyway now that toothpaste tubes and wine bottle foil are all plastic, oh well.
Cheers Simon
MarquisMini
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