Col. SCHWARTZ 5° hussar 1806

[ivopreda]

Hi friends,
first of all my best wishes for a Merry Christmas and an happy new year.

Attached some pics of my latest finished job. It’s a portrait of Col. Xavier Schwartz that lead the 5th hussar under Lassalle being part of the “Infernal Brigade” with the 7th hussars.

The name “Infernal Brigade” was given because during the pursuit of the Prussian army they took a town ( Stettin ) and a lot of prisoner, flags, gun.

The pursuit remain one of the best Napoleonic action of all the period.

I imagined Schwartz pushing his men to the pursuit crying to the slowest of them.

That’s the idea… the figure is coming… hoping you enjoy it














if somebody likes to see some step by step job can go to http://www.figurinitaly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=577


cordially

Ivo Preda

 

[georges64]

Bellisima creazione,signior Ivo ! Buon Natale !
georges.

 

[captnenglish]

That is a brilliant figure! Dude's name was actually Xavier Schwartz?

 

[megroot]

Excellent work Ivo.
I really like what you have done.
Thanks for the link.
marc

 

[caramba]

Awesome work Ivo! I like your style of painting figures.

M.

 

[Markus]

Hello Ivo,

wow, a real cracker !!! Excellent work.

Hope to meet you soon again.

Take care,
Markus

 

[vergilius]

great job though I find the mud on the cape a bit too much

 

[Bad91Fellow]

nice! i love the coat!

Lennart

 

[Roc]

Bravo Ivo, bellissima figura, complimenti.

Auguri per un Buon Natale.
Roc

 

[Dan Morton]

Superb!

All the best,
Dan

 

[blaster]

Superlative work

Hi Ivo,

Your sculpting and painting skills as always are suberb.

Rgds Victor

 

[ivopreda]

mud

great job though I find the mud on the cape a bit too much

Vergilius,
Probably you are right. It's a strange things determinate how a cap can be dirty, I choose to have a lot of dirty on it because the colour... The dirty reduced the impact of the grey/blue cap on the figure giving it some more uniformity.


captnenglish
yes the name is Xavier Schwartz


thanks to all for the compliments, they are welcome


my best for 2008

Ivo

 

[John Bowery]

Ivo,
Superb painting.
Cheers
John