Before the Battle...

[El Tché]

Hello,
still working on a ACW subject....
This was depicted on a Don Troiani painting (a detail on a crowded paint) but also by a picture edited by Bronco.
The heads are from Hornet and a mix of Magic Sulpt and Duro (which gives the strange colours)
The hand of the pastor is a metal academic and you can therefore bend the fingers as you want.

They are Confederate soldiers, that's why the reverend has a gun (they were figthing reverend, only with the Sudists, Union priests were not fighting men). The pastor has also two gourds : one with drinking , the other one with holy water (a cross will be painted on it.... ) This detail is coming from pictures of ACW reverend (re enactors) I have found on the Net...

The base is very small to give the impression the priest is blessing a bataillon....

Hope you like !

Thierry

 

[KenBoyle]

Coming along beautifully Thierry! Looking forward to future posts.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[clrsgt]

Great vignette Thierry; will definitely be following.

 

[marios1]

fantastic Thierry. i like so much your work and in particular your acw trasformation...you are really an optimum figure painter too.

This your work start from the masterbox kit of 2ww us priest and gi in pray?????

Congratulations

Mario.

 

[El Tché]

Hello Mario,
Thanks for your kind words.
I do not know if masterbox did a kit with us priest but Bronco did one (Bronco is a kind of chinese or korean company). The picture on the Bronco box was really interesting and I bought the kit. At opening the box, the elements are really small (very small 1/35 !). So I decided to keep the body elements and sanded them to get academic. The hands of the kit are interesting because they are folded hands for praying (so I gain time with the hands but they are really small, even for 1/35 hornet....) As you see on picture 1 and picture 2, there is nearly nothing left from the original Bronco figure. I have added Magic Sculpt to get them a bit more large.
So, in conclusion, there was a small interest to buy the kit (except for the hands...)

 

[Huw63]

Simply marvellous and innovative. Excellent stuff.

Cheers

Huw

 

[m@rp]

Très beau travail de sculpture et belle conception!
Pascal
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