Completed Carabinier - after Detaille

[MarquisMini]

These 2 figures look Amazing,
I cannot help to picture them once they are done, definitely another gem for your collection of figures.

 

[Briggsy]

Paul, this is the progress so far of the Nemrod figure, built straight from the box, I need some practice before I start ant drastic alterations.

Cheers Simon

 

[Paul Handley]

Paul, this is the progress so far of the Nemrod figure, built straight from the box, I need some practice before I start ant drastic alterations.

That cape looks really good. I’ll have to explore those Nemrod kits again - I had a kit of a line infantryman with a wounded drummer boy that I never got round to making then lost. I remember it being a lovely kit.

 

[Briggsy]

That cape looks really good. I’ll have to explore those Nemrod kits again - I had a kit of a line infantryman with a wounded drummer boy that I never got round to making then lost. I remember it being a lovely kit.

It really is a nicely sculpted figure, but I'll stick to converting Historex I think, more fun that way.

Cheers Simon

 

[Paul Handley]

The Carabinier paint job is coming along a bit quicker than the build (which wouldn’t be hard) and I’m very pleased with the metallic printer’s ink - they behave and mix just like oils and that suits me fine. No enamel blobbiness either. Still lots to tidy up but getting there.

Also I’ve got a copy of Bill Ottinger’s Historex book that’s now surplus to requirements if anyone wants it? The pages are tipped in backwards so you have to start at the back, apart from that free to a good home for the price of postage. I suspect everyone on here’s already got it, but just in case.

 

[Briggsy]

Cracking paint job Paul, very precise on the belts and cuirass frills and those printers inks really are working well. How long did they take to dry in the end?

Cheers Simon

 

[NigelR]

That's looking lovely! Are you using oils for the main colours?

 

[Paul Handley]

Cracking paint job Paul, very precise on the belts and cuirass frills and those printers inks really are working well. How long did they take to dry in the end?

Cheers Simon

Thanks Simon. The areas mixed with raw umber dried almost overnight because raw umber is the fastest drying oil colour. Just pure ink takes about a week to cure completely which is about the same as white oil paint. I’m intending to seal it with an acrylic varnish (that worked on a test cuirass I painted) just to remove any doubt about its stability.

 

[Paul Handley]

That's looking lovely! Are you using oils for the main colours?

Thanks Nigel. Yes all oils although I repainted the highlights of the helmet crest with white acrylic as I find reds only really ‘pop’ with a white priming.

 

[Briggsy]

Thanks Simon. The areas mixed with raw umber dried almost overnight because raw umber is the fastest drying oil colour. Just pure ink takes about a week to cure completely which is about the same as white oil paint. I’m intending to seal it with an acrylic varnish (that worked on a test cuirass I painted) just to remove any doubt about its stability.

I prefer doing figures in acrylic these days, I'll see how the Darkstar paints pan out before I jump on board, long drying times I can happily live without!

Cheers Simon

 

[Paul Handley]

I prefer doing figures in acrylic these days, I'll see how the Darkstar paints pan out before I jump on board, long drying times I can happily live without!

Cheers Simon

Yep, that’s the thing with them - they work great with oils because they behave just like oils (and mix with them). Using them with acrylics you’d effectively be running two different painting systems.

 

[Briggsy]

Yep, that’s the thing with them - they work great with oils because they behave just like oils (and mix with them). Using them with acrylics you’d effectively be running two different painting systems.

Yeah I don't want to do that, I recall trying to thin Revell airbrush paints with isopropyl alcohol, that didn't end well!

Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Hi Paul

Lovely painting updates on this Napoleonic tank ! , liking the armour work with the printers inks

Will you highlight the blue and further ?

looking forward to seeing more from your bench

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[Paul Handley]

Thanks Nap - appreciated. Here’s an update on Napoleon’s schwere panzer abteilung aka my Carabinier officer. Apart from the back of the cuirass which is just blocked in he’s just about at the ‘keep refining till you run out of patience and/or skill - which ever comes first’ stage. The cuirass lining has only just been blocked in too; I’m trying to get the lace nice and straight before I shade and finish it.

In other news I attended the BMSS Annuals in Reading today. It was an immense pleasure to meet Simon, Nigel, Nigel’s French line infantry tour de force and Simon’s Carlist Wars fella’ - not to mentions all the other beautiful work on display. I also managed buy a base for the Guard Artillery project - from Richard Wharton at Oakwood Studios - and some nice looking Kolinsky sable brushes from Hawk miniatures. All in all a very enjoyable day.

 

[Merryweather]

Fantastic stuff there ,Paul!
It was a joy to meet up with you and Simon, and with Cambronne (whose real name escapes me, sorry) and to put faces to names.
I had a very good day, to my delight I came away with a silver for the Fusiliers and highly commended for the Scots Greys Charge and the AFS Fireman. So considering the talent in the room I am well chuffed.
A shame Nigel didn't make it
all the best
Neil

 

[Paul Handley]

Fantastic stuff there ,Paul!
It was a joy to meet up with you and Simon, and with Cambronne (whose real name escapes me, sorry) and to put faces to names.
I had a very good day, to my delight I came away with a silver for the Fusiliers and highly commended for the Scots Greys Charge and the AFS Fireman. So considering the talent in the room I am well chuffed.
A shame Nigel didn't make it
all the best
Neil

Yep, we all missed good old Nigel - whoever he is? Sorry Neil. I’m old and my mind is scrambled. Congratulations on your competition success - much deserved. I’m always struck by how little there is currently in the way of animation and conversion which was once very common. Maybe 3D printing and digital designing has made us a bit lazy, or more likely, we feel a bit intimidated by it’s flawless perfection. Personally, I prefer imagination and creativity to flawless perfection anyday - which is not to say I’m not a sucker for a bit of flawless perfection now and again.

My only regret about yesterday was that I didn’t get to hang around a bit longer. We had a job finding parking and got a bloody ticket regardless. Anyway, congratulations once again and here’s to another meet up sometime soon.

 

[Briggsy]

Great meeting you yesterday Paul, glad you made it safely back north, though not unscathed by the sounds of it. I've had my fair share of tickets in Reading mostly from using bus lanes after they reconfigured all the routes and didn't tell me!

Nice work on the Carabiner, love what you've done with the sword. I agree that there isn't as much conversion taking place as there used to be, well not in the UK anyway, there is just so much choice out there but it is missing half the fun not doing even some slight personalisation.

Cheers Simon

 

[Cambronne]

Fantastic stuff there ,Paul!
It was a joy to meet up with you and Simon, and with Cambronne (whose real name escapes me, sorry) and to put faces to names.
I had a very good day, to my delight I came away with a silver for the Fusiliers and highly commended for the Scots Greys Charge and the AFS Fireman. So considering the talent in the room I am well chuffed.
A shame Nigel didn't make it
all the best
Neil

I have to agree, it was great to put names to faces and see some of your wonderful figures "in the flesh" as it were. No matter how good the photograph nothing beats seeing the real figure. I came away from the BMSS meeting inspired, and also with several additions to my grey army
Stuart

 

[Paul Handley]

… the sword.

I always fancied doing a blued blade after seeing Bill Ottinger’s Chasseur officer with one - I think that’s my favourite figure of his. Whether my Carabinier is senior enough for such a luxury weapon or whether he’d have been daft enough to drag it across Russia is anybody’s guess. I plead ‘artistic licence’.

 

[Briggsy]

I always fancied doing a blued blade after seeing Bill Ottinger’s Chasseur officer with one - I think that’s my favourite figure of his. Whether my Carabinier is senior enough for such a luxury weapon or whether he’d have been daft enough to drag it across Russia is anybody’s guess. I plead ‘artistic licence’.



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Well if it makes the figure more interesting why on earth not, it really is a lovely detail.

Cheers Simon