75mm French Napoleonic Gun team.

[clubcat]

Oh my goodness that is beautiful. Well done and congratulations. I love the scale and dynamic.

Melanie

 

[Reptor]

Absolutely fantastic ! An impressive piece and very beautiful sculpt ^^ a masterpiece of course !

 

[Steve Ski]

These sets you put out Gordon are always musuem quality, incredible. Another masterpiece.

 

[winfield]

I think this is the perfect marriage of the new way to sculpt--3D--and our loved traditional sculpt. That makes it unique. As for proportional appearances, I reckon that once this beauty is completed, outside of people whose whole view of model work is criticism, no one will care. Great faith in the miniature community for it to be released, too. Now, how to sneak the purchase...

 

[Chrisr]

David
French Artillery draft horses were quite large ideally up to 16 hands and heavily built, slightly bigger than those the officer & trumpeter.
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And men were not as tall as they are today. I was surprised to learn that the average height of French grenadiers in line regiments was 170.25cm (approx 5ft 6 1/2inch). fusiliers 164.66cm (5ft 3 inches) and voltigeurs 159.4cm (5ft 1 inch), and even less in light infantry regiments. The voltigeurs were so short they had to be issued with a shortened musket. So it would seem that the drivers of the artillery were around the same heights.

Outstanding work Grod.
Cheers
Chris

 

[1969]

Cannot wait to see a painted version of this one, lovely job from all involved in this one.
Steve

 

[Richie]

Hi Pops,
People who have been in this hobby for a lot longer time than me refer to a "golden age" of modelling....I think they are suffering from a serious case of nostalgia sickness, when you see pieces like this and there are lots of others we are in modelling Valhalla now. (sorry been re watching Vikings)

Outstanding foresight and daring for commissioning this, it is superb. I can only applaud you and your skilled team.

Now if this was my thing (or had been an RML 7pdr on a mountain limber) I would buy it immediately at that price because what you get in 1/24 scale for your money is exceptional value.

I hope you sell everything you produce it deserves it. Well done Gordon, Tommi, Carl and Steve.

cheers
Richie

 

[Helm]

Hi Pops,
People who have been in this hobby for a lot longer time than me refer to a "golden age" of modelling....I think they are suffering from a serious case of nostalgia sickness, when you see pieces like this and there are lots of others we are in modelling Valhalla now. (sorry been re watching Vikings)

Outstanding foresight and daring for commissioning this, it is superb. I can only applaud you and your skilled team.

Now if this was my thing (or had been an RML 7pdr on a mountain limber) I would buy it immediately at that price because what you get in 1/24 scale for your money is exceptional value.

I hope you sell everything you produce it deserves it. Well done Gordon, Tommi, Carl and Steve.

cheers
Richie

Seconded Richie, except for the RML bit, now if it was a medieval/renaissance gun team on the move yup for sure
Steve

 

[The Riveteer]

PS. as for anyone with a shyte opinion...sculpt and cast your own and then put it on the market! Until then, be amazed at this time in the hobby

And here was I thinking that the forum allowed for differing viewpoints and opinions.

Johnathan - I did not say there was anything wrong with the sculpting, and even said I loved the Dynamism. I only had a problem with the comparative sizes of the riders and horses. I did not say this was wrong only that I feel (and still do) that it "looked odd". That is merely my opinion. I don't see why it is s**te merely because you do not agree. Strange that you think only experts in any given field can have valid opinions.

I accept Gordon's example as a reliable source. I could post many other pictures from different publications to counter it , but I do not want to pursue that avenue and start another mud slinging match.

David

 

[The Riveteer]

outside of people whose whole view of model work is criticism, no one will care.

Another cheap pop.

Winfield, My (I have egotistically assumed you refer to my post here),views is are not based on criticism alone (my avatar name was intended to be taken as ironic).
I have been in the figure hobby since before the Waterloo film was released (which converted me at the time to a love of Napoleonics). I am amazed at the quality of sculping we now enjoy (see my recent review of the Lady Godiva figure for an example of me praising a model).
And why, from a single posting, do you assume criticism is my "whole view?"
It seems criticism is only considered to have an underlying agenda of a personal attack here. On the contrary I wish Gordon every success with this release, I won't be buying one and don't care if anyone else cares about that or not. My purchases are not influenced by others opinions - are yours?
Or are contributors to the site only allowed to follow the majority view with impunity?

David