Completed Dragoon Regt No 7 1900

[Nap]

Hi Simon

Nice work on the legs , with the longer coat that’s should save some puttywork for you

We wonder what’s the next while this “something else” is ?

Have fun at the bench

Nap

 

[MalcC]

Another fantastic figure in the making.

Malc

 

[Briggsy]

Nap, Malc, cheers gents hopefully this won't be too complex a build once I get going on the coat. The something else is another Chota Sahib figure to paint while I sculpt.

Cheers Simon

 

[marco14]

that is looking very strange for me, gonna see how the figure come alive,very special that sculpting
keep it up
Mario

 

[Briggsy]

that is looking very strange for me, gonna see how the figure come alive,very special that sculpting
keep it up
Mario

Thanks Mario, yes he does look a bit odd just now, once I tidy the legs up and add the trouser piping I will be able to do the Frock Coat, then he'll look more human.

Cheers Simon 0

 

[theBaron]

Another fun project, Simon! I will follow this with interest (well, I follow all your builds with interest!)
I'm watching the old BBC series, "Fall of Eagles" again, and I like to see how close they come to accuracy with the uniforms.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Briggsy]

Another fun project, Simon! I will follow this with interest (well, I follow all your builds with interest!)
I'm watching the old BBC series, "Fall of Eagles" again, and I like to see how close they come to accuracy with the uniforms.

Prost!
Brad

Thank most kindly Brad, I just love the elegant simplicity of the überrock and the reference book gives some good examples. Not a great TV addict so not sure what that series is all about but if it's worth watching I might have to try and track it down.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Right then cracking on with this, I have swapped the head from the old Historex to the new one from G&G and it looks much better. Still need to make the mutze and give him a suitable tash on the top lip.

Using a piece of post it note paper as a template I have started the lower half of the Frock Coat or überrock, the paper helps me keep a straight edge. His trouser seam piping has been added using stretched sprue, much thinner and finer than I can roll Magicsculpt.

The cross hatching on his back is just to remind me to refine the Dolly figure and take some of the plastic away so he doesn't end up too bulky.

The heads are shown to give an idea of the relative size of the two heads and there is a quick review of the G&G item that came in the post yesterday on the appropriate board.

Cheers Simon

 

[Merryweather]

looking forward to seeing what you do with the new head- the old one isn't so bad.....

 

[Briggsy]

looking forward to seeing what you do with the new head- the old one isn't so bad.....

No the old one was OK really and there's no reason not to use it I suppose but this one has ears that I didn't have to make myself. I really should spend a few months learning how to sculpt heads, faces and hands but I don't have the enthusiasm when good ones are commercially available.

Cheers Simon

 

[theBaron]

"Fall of Eagles" is a miniseries about the 3 dynasties-Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs-in the decades leading up to and through the Great War. It starts with the young Franz Josef and his marriage to Elisabeth (Sissi) and proceeds from that time. A lot of great character actors in various roles, some established when the series was produced in 1974, and others who would become more famous later, most notably Patrick Stewart (as Lenin). It's historical drama, but it's pretty good, right up there with the BBC's "I, Claudius".

Here's the article at the IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_fall%20of%20eagles

It's interesting to see who all was in the cast.

I first saw it in the late 70s, when it aired here on public (ie quasi-government subsidized) television, and not again for 25 years or so, when it was finally released on DVD. Every so often, I'll load it and rewatch it (I do the same with "I, Claudius", too).

Prost!
Brad

 

[Briggsy]

"Fall of Eagles" is a miniseries about the 3 dynasties-Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs-in the decades leading up to and through the Great War. It starts with the young Franz Josef and his marriage to Elisabeth (Sissi) and proceeds from that time. A lot of great character actors in various roles, some established when the series was produced in 1974, and others who would become more famous later, most notably Patrick Stewart (as Lenin). It's historical drama, but it's pretty good, right up there with the BBC's "I, Claudius".

Here's the article at the IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_fall%20of%20eagles

It's interesting to see who all was in the cast.

I first saw it in the late 70s, when it aired here on public (ie quasi-government subsidized) television, and not again for 25 years or so, when it was finally released on DVD. Every so often, I'll load it and rewatch it (I do the same with "I, Claudius", too).

Prost!
Brad

Thanks for that I'll take a look, not much of a TV watcher at the best of times though so I tend to miss a lot, but that's rather the point really I guess.

Cheers Simon

 

[Steve Ski]

Excellent progress, Simon!

 

[MalcC]

Liking the progress.

Malc

 

[Briggsy]

Ski, Malc many thanks gents, you almost make it sound like I know what I'm doing! But at the risk of everyone taking the micky it's more a case of suck.it and see! Nah I shouldn't have said that.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Photographs of a model are useful tools, having looked at my last post there is something a little odd. I have measured the anatomy as well as I can but still.it looks odd. I'd appreciate some feed back, I think the knees are way too low on his legs and should be a few mm higher closer to the hem of the überrock.

Cheers Simon

 

[Gman99]

Crikey and you thought my RP model was enough to drive you round the bend. I’d be spinning in circles with this. Fantastic work and will watch with interest Briggsy.

 

[Briggsy]

Crikey and you thought my RP model was enough to drive you round the bend. I’d be spinning in circles with this. Fantastic work and will watch with interest Briggsy.

Many thanks for that, I'll re measure the placement of the knees and fix before he goes forward anymore. This one is causing me issues as it's the first I've done in this scale and it seems I am still looking at 1/35th measurements, but hey ho not difficult to fix.

Cheers Simon

 

[NigelR]

Excellent progress, this is coming together nicely.

Using a piece of post it note paper as a template I have started the lower half of the Frock Coat or überrock, the paper helps me keep a straight edge.

Now that's a good idea. I struggled to get a good shape for the greatcoats on my poilus because I was trying to put on a large piece of pre-shaped putty, which of course then bent out of shape when it was on the figure.

 

[Briggsy]

Excellent progress, this is coming together nicely.


Now that's a good idea. I struggled to get a good shape for the greatcoats on my poilus because I was trying to put on a large piece of pre-shaped putty, which of course then bent out of shape when it was on the figure.

Nigel, many thanks, yes laying in pre shaped pieces isn't easy by any means. I picked this up reading an old Military Illustrated mag with an article about Sid Horton, he used paper, plastic card and all sorts of bits under the putty, if it was good enough for him then it's more than good enough for me.

I am slowly building up the flapping front of the Frock Coat at the moment, now that I have fixed the issue with the knees, I could use paper but I'm trying to make purely from Magicsculpt so it will take a few sessions I reckon.

Cheers Simon