Completed Corporal John Shaw (2nd Life Guards 1815)

[Gerry]

He's Looking superb John! nice sculpting, also great work on his horse. The airfix figure parts. combined with historex parts work so well.

 

[John Belcher]

Hey mate, sorry I missed you at the club today. I was looking foward to seeing Mr Shaw in the flesh so to speak. Looks like you have been getting stuck in. Keep it comming mate.

Hey Chris, thanks mate. Hope you and family have a great Christmas. Hope to catch up over the Christmas break.

 

[John Belcher]

Exellent project John, lovely sculpting and great animation.
Pity I missed this sunday but with a lovely day the golf coarse was beckoning.
Les

Thanks les, Hope you and Sharon have a great Christmas

 

[John Belcher]

Looking good John!

Thanks Macca

 

[John Belcher]

Shoot, I don't know how I missed this posting of yours. I'm following now and really look forward to seeing him all done up!

Joe

Thanks Joe,

 

[Braemp]

Very nice. Following this with interest. What head are you using?

Regards Lars

 

[John Belcher]

Very nice. Following this with interest. What head are you using?

Regards Lars

Thanks Lars, I am using a old historex head out of there spare head set

 

[alamac]

He's coming along beautifully John ,
Cheers
Al

 

[Huw63]

Missed the start of this one. Great to see my beloved medium, Historex, being used. Looks great.

Cheers

Huw

 

[ChaosCossack]

Looks awesome!!!!
I have some historex/airfix conversions in the pipe so this has been very helpful.
Dying to see some colour on this piece.

Colin

 

[El Tché]

Very good work and a fantastic subject !

 

[chippy]

Some real quality work going on there John . Can't wait to see some paint going on as I always like your style of painting .
chippy

 

[martin tabony]

I found some more reference that pretty much agrees with every thing you've done. A realy good contempory picture but it must have been late in 1815 because the honours "Peninsul" and "Waterloo" have been added to the sabretache. I forgot about Chas Stadden's book on The Life Guards that was published by Almark in 1971 (although he does show a red edging to the black sheepskin!)
The word Corporal was used in the Household Cavalry instead of the word Sergeant. Until the rest of the army adopted the rank of corporal in 1878 when the Household Cavalry rank became Corporal of Horse. The badge of rank is three gold stripes with a crown above, I believe this is the badge Corporal Shaw would have worn. We still don't have sergeants.

Also here's that helmet. It's been gathering dust in the loft since 1995. I've added one of my 32nd figures for size (I.G. wolfhound 1900) I can't find the scales or rosettes at the moment. The crest doesn't assemble properly because I had to add bits for the moulding process.
Obviously I had to be careful with the original helmet while I was handling it, so I used the "brass rubbing" method to get the sizes and details. I had to enlarge the helmet because the original would only fit a modern child! That was the only alteration I made though, I stuck to all other measures.

Martin

 

[smudger1960]

Stunning work john,very inspiratitional

 

[John Belcher]

He's coming along beautifully John ,
Cheers
Al

Thanks Alan

 

[John Belcher]

Very nice. Following this with interest. What head are you using?

Regards Lars

Missed the start of this one. Great to see my beloved medium, Historex, being used. Looks great.

Cheers

Huw

Thanks Huw

 

[John Belcher]

Looks awesome!!!!
I have some historex/airfix conversions in the pipe so this has been very helpful.
Dying to see some colour on this piece.

Colin

Thanks Colin

 

[John Belcher]

Very good work and a fantastic subject !

Thanks El Tch'e

 

[Zastrow.cuirassier]

Great work , and superb doc from Martin.

 

[John Belcher]

Some real quality work going on there John . Can't wait to see some paint going on as I always like your style of painting .
chippy

Thanks Chippy, nice to hear from you mate.
Merry Christmas,
John.