Completed Dragoon general Louis Michel LETORT

[ivopreda]

hi friend, after a long silence I post here one of my latest figure.

It's a portrait of Luois Michel Letort as Major of the empresse dragoon. It's a quite simple convesrion of a MM kit of a mounted grenadier officer

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for more details and SBS here http://www.figurinitaly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7232&highlight=letort

 

[captnenglish]

Simply stunning

 

[ChaosCossack]

Great job, beautiful paint... is the dragoon helmet scratch built or a spare part? The final effect is excellent!

Colin

 

[Azgaron]

Awesome paint job! A very beautiful figure!

Cheers,

Håkan

 

[John Bowery]

Ivo,
Stunning painting and nice to see you back here.
Cheers
John

 

[davidmitchell]

Very nice work on the conversion and painting Ivo.


Cheers David

 

[meizi]

Nicely done on the figure. It's very beautiful.

 

[megroot]

Another stunner Ivo.
Perfect.

marc

 

[ivopreda]

Great job, beautiful paint... is the dragoon helmet scratch built or a spare part? The final effect is excellent!

Colin

hi Colin,

Thanks for the kind words,

The helmet comes from Historex range with some adaptation

here some pics of the conversion



from the original metal modeles

 

[kingbingo]

very very nice

 

[Sergey Savenkov]

Bel lavoro Ivo!

 

[tissibzh]

another great piece Ivo, bravissimo

 

[Mike Stevens]

Well Done sir!

 

[Manatarm]

Great conversion and painting!!!

may I enquire did you paint the ribbons and epaulets by yellow or gold? I will start to paint my first napoleonic figure soon but I have totally no idea about how to paint those things....

Regards
Yi

 

[Figurenfreund66]

To kneel!

Cheers

Hendryk

 

[Ferris]

Excellent work Ivo!

I like the natural feather. Very different.

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[MarquisMini]

what a gret job!,i really like this figure,but you nailed it on the lapels,great rendition on it.

 

[ivopreda]

Great conversion and painting!!!

may I enquire did you paint the ribbons and epaulets by yellow or gold? I will start to paint my first napoleonic figure soon but I have totally no idea about how to paint those things....

Regards
Yi

hi, I think the follwoing thread could answer to your question. the text is in Italian but i hope you can tanslate it easily.
you can find all the thread here http://www.figurinitaly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7232&highlight=letort&page=5


L’oro questo conosciuto…
Cambiamo argomento dalla pelle del pantalone alla gallonatura d’oro. Prima di tutto la paletta, i colori sono indicati e sono stati miscelati insieme in sequenza per ottenere tutta la gamma possibile per partire dalle ombre ed arrivare alle luci


L’aggiunta di colore a schiarire è progressiva, poco alla volta e con una certa cura nel fondere con un pennello asciutto le tinte


Qui si vede il dietro che è stato trattato alla stessa maniera

E voilà gli strumenti del mestiere… i pennelli. Per dipingere ad olio ed eseguire la fusione delicata dei colori è necessario un mazzo piuttosto importante degli stessi. Pochi sono per dipingere, molti sono per fondere. Devono essere sempre puliti ed asciutti e per questo sono tanti

 

[Manatarm]

Hi Preda, thank you so much! its really helpful

 

[gudel]

Gran bel lavoro di trasformazione e pittura
Gus