Completed Airfix 54mm French Line Infantry

[Waterlooman]

Excellent progress, I fully understand your mojo loss - I have lost mine also, just cant seem to find it.

W.

 

[Nap]

Hi Neil

Great to have you and the mojo back with this large project ,nice work on 15 and 16

Looking forward to seeing more on this

Have fun at the bench

Nap

 

[Merryweather]

Thanks everyone for the great comments and encouragement.
They are almost done now but I have left them to visit my youngest daughter who is hopefully about to deliver our fifth grandchild....
Fingers crossed
Neil

 

[Briggsy]

Congratulations on becoming a grandfather again, hope all goes well with your daughter. I only have one grandchild and that's hard work. Happy times.

Cheers Simon

 

[Merryweather]

Cheers Simon. I'm lucky in that I generally get the fun from them rather than responsibility, apart from the odd school run.
Our youngest grandchild is 9, so my wife is beside herself waiting for a new baby!

 

[Briggsy]

Yes the arrival.of a baby is always a happy occasion, I doubt any of my three will produce any more in the foreseeable future. Mine is 4 next week and runs on a boxful of duracell batteries.

Cheers Simon

 

[Dr Force]

Good to hear you have your mojo back, big diorama's are out of my scope due to losing interest half way through... looking forward to seeing the final piece..

I learnt this lesson with my huge 1/16 dio…..I’d not long completed a 1/16 dio that took 12 months of solid work and in hindsight I was burnt out doing the next one. I’ve got a decent size on the go now but it’s much more focused on the figures but in the future I will be sticking with shorter term projects.

As for this project, I think it’s going to be superb, love the figure conversions and attention to detail. Painting looks excellent too therefore is worth pursuing to the end. My advice is to take a day break between each session and spend the free day planning paint, groundwork etc.

Watching with much interest.

Dave

 

[NigelR]

Huzzah! At last, he's back on the painting. I've been waiting a long time to see this come together, keep that mojo going.......... Great start on the painting, now let's get this over the finish line!

As an aside, I just bought a book containing Faber du Faur's prints of the 1812 campaign, and this is great source material for vignettes and dioramas. I am getting tempted.....

 

[MalcC]

Excellent work on the wounded soldier, perfectly animated.

Malc

 

[Merryweather]

Well, grandchild no 5 is dragging her feet so I have had time to finish the boys off
Fusilier 15

Fusilier 16

PHEW! All done!



...............or is it?

 

[Briggsy]

Couple of great figures there, best get on with basing before you find more bits to build another!

Cheers Simon

 

[Rob]

...............or is it?

Can't be, you haven't got one of these yet!
https://images.reapermini.com/4/60036_w_1.jpg

 

[Dr Force]

Love these, fantastic job.

 

[NigelR]

Looking good. I can't wait to see all these figures together......

 

[Warren SMITH]

Looks like your almost there..

 

[Andrew Belsey]

I'm really enjoying watching this progress and I'm looking forward to seeing them en mass!
I love the movement in that last figure.
Andy

 

[MalcC]

I'm looking forward to seeing the final results.

Malc

 

[Merryweather]

Simon, Rob, Dave, Nigel, Warren, Andy and Malc, many thanks indeed for your kind comments

BUT
I just can’t help myself.
Having FINALLY finished the positively last two figures I started working on the composition, and no matter what I did I just couldn’t make the Deuxieme Porte-Aigle guy work.
This was my original idea.

He was supposed to be stepping over the downed officer - it kind of works for a stand-alone vignette but I want a really tight and crowded composition and this just needs too much space around it.


I decided that really only his legs were wrong, so I looked out a new pair of gaitered legs, which meant I had some serious butchery to do, and to an already painted figure. I hated the idea of it but it was driving me mad, so I bit the bullet and broke out the Dremel. Luckily I had stuck his equipment with pva so that all came off without damaging itself or the paint underneath (not that that mattered in the end).
This is what I got

In the process though I broke one of the arm joints and the coat tails had to come off and rather than do some crappy re-touching I realised I would rather completely repaint the whole figure. So into the Dettol bath he went - gutted!
So far so good, but wait- the new legs are Airfix and they’re annoyingly too small for his Historex torso…So I set about altering the original legs to the same position

That’s much better.

But I don’t want to commit to this pose without checking it with the rest of the composition. I did that and it STILL didn’t do it for me, so I changed the legs a bit more and this is where he has ended up.

So it’s out with the Milliput again, and another Navy blue jacket to paint! But I’ve come this far and even though I really just want it finished I don’t want something that will niggle at me for ever more.

Sorry

 

[NigelR]

 

[Waterlooman]

Excellwent work as always - some great poses there.

W.