54mm Scots Greys Charge

[Merryweather]

I’ve wanted to model this scene since I first saw the painting as a teenager, so it’s only taken me fifty years to get there.
The figures are converted Airfix 54mm Collectors Series, and it has taken me eighteen months (on and off) to build. I have thoroughly enjoyed it, although it did get a bit intense at times; I never expected to have to make something as complicated as the Scots Grey’s sword belt, and painting the kilt was an experience I won’t repeat in a hurry.


The only drawback with it stretching out so long is that when I started it my painting was at a rather basic level; it has improved over the time, so that the cuirassier is not as good as the other two figures. But there’s no way I am prolonging this any longer, so he will have to stay as he is.

I know it's debatable whether the charge actually happened as per the painting, but that's not the point. I have included some 45th Line Regiment paraphernalia as a nod to historical accuracy, but really I just wanted to model the image.
Well ,I've done it now, and I better start looking at some of my other teenage modelling ambitions before I lose my faculties- I doubt I have another fifty years to play with!!
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Thanks for looking
Neil

 

[malc]

Doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, it's a great job of the painting you have done.

 

[arj]

It may have taken you a long time Neil, but it was well worth the wait.
It's a superb little vignette, and very faithful to the original image.
Very, very well done.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Steve Brodie]

Very Very nice Neil

 

[mortier]

Excellent Vignette,very dramatic

 

[Tecumsea]

Always nice to create something unique-very nicely done.

Keith

 

[Graham]

Very nice and, spookily, I was reading the charge of the Scots Greys in Bernard Cornwallis book on Waterloo last night where he described the guys grabbing the stirrups of the cavalry to go with them and I wondered what that would look like. Now I know.

 

[Peter Day]

Fantastic work Neil. Not only is the figure converting superbly done, but the painting is top notch too.

 

[DioramaArt]

Excellent work, very nice conversion and paint work.

I did similar research for the 1914 stirrup charge, the Waterloo event I like to think could have actually happened unlike the 1914 version that was pure fiction and propaganda. With boggy wet ground slowing the horses and men at Waterloo, using the horses for short movement across the battlefield was quite plausible under those testing conditions. Only those who were there actually know if true or not.

 

[theBaron]

WOW!

 

[Merryweather]

Well thanks, gentlemen, for all the very kind comments.
I'm still rather self-conscious of my poor painting skills compared to many of the masters on this site, but you've got to start somewhere, and you've got to have something to aspire to.
So thank you again.
Neil

 

[Stephen Hutchinson]

Superb finish Neil

It really is a work of art and so many scratching skills too

Well done

Steve H

 

[captnenglish]

Well done sir!

 

[bucsfan21]

Nicely executed! Great use of the old Airfix Collectors Series too! I am impressed greatly! Thanks for sharing your work!

Terry Martin-Member of the Atlanta Military Figure Society of Atlanta, GA

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Beautiful paintwork

Mobo

 

[KenBoyle]

Wonderful work Neil! Quite a conversion effort and nicely done.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[Warren SMITH]

very well done...

 

[Blind Pew]

Great stuff, some excellent modelling skills on display there.

 

[Chris Oldfield]

That's a lovely vignette Neil, great conversion skills & use of the old Airfix Collector's Series figures, a range which lent themselves so easily to surgery like this.
Used to love building those kits when I was a teenager, & I've still got a 10th Hussar in the stash which I'm going to bring up to scratch one day (he said hopefully........)

 

[Merryweather]

Thanks again, everyone.