Completed ECW Cavalry charge

[fogie]

This takes us back a bit....Sid Horton's adaptations of Airfix pieces and
those Historex conversions we were tempted into all those years ago.
Wonderful and exciting stuff, Peter........power to your elbow sir. Looking
forward.....

Mike

 

[PLG]

hi Guys

Thanks for all of the support, a long way to go but I am pleased so far. The hope is to have it finished for Telford next November, so no rush.

Nap - my main references are various Osprey books and loads of photos of re-enactors.

peter

 

[NigelR]

Thanks for all of the support, a long way to go but I am pleased so far. The hope is to have it finished for Telford next November, so no rush.

I predict a last minute rush happening in early November 2024.......

 

[Fantomas]

Hi Peter,
I looks like an interesting project. Let me know if you need any spare parts, horses or reference materials.
And it is a message to everyone: you can always contact me and ask for a singe figure instead of whole vignette or only some spare parts. I would be more than happy to help you.

 

[PLG]

I predict a last minute rush happening in early November 2024.......

ye of little faith! The plan is that that:

by the end of 2023 - horses are sculpted
by the end of February the the figures sculpted and the base groundwork made
march. - a rest from the project
April - review each horse/figure and make corrections / refinements
each month thereafter - 2 figures are painted.

great plan - But I think you are right - there will be a rush at the end!!!

Petet

 

[PLG]

Hi Peter,
I looks like an interesting project. Let me know if you need any spare parts, horses or reference materials.
And it is a message to everyone: you can always contact me and ask for a singe figure instead of whole vignette or only some spare parts. I would be more than happy to help you.

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Hi. Thanks for the kind offer. at the moment I am ok but as the project progresses things may change!

Peter

 

[PLG]

It may be tempting fate but we seem to be ahead of ourselves with the Christmas planning so a little modeling time this afternoon - refining the details on the horses:

I am focussing on two aspects of the horses heads - the fist is to drill a hole through the sides of the mouth and inserting a length of plastic rod -it will be cut to length in due course - which will act as a post to fix the two part of the horses bit onto. I cannot recall where i got this tip from but it makes fitting the bit a lot easier as well as providing a more secure fixing. The challenging part is grilling the hole squarely through the mouth to avoid a cock-sided bit.

the second jot is to refine or replace the buckles on the harness. most are fine but on some horse Ii have remade the bridles or the detail is a bit fuzzy. For this I have made three little tools from some scrap brass. The third is an inbetween size and on the other end of the small one.


CHANGE - since making this post I realised that the bridle is wrong - the ecw bridles did not have the leather strap around the 'nose' part of the head (sorry not sure what the correct term is). So this means removing more of the cast bridles. At least I noticed it before painting them!!!

These can be pressed into putty to form the inner part of the buckle, forming both the inner part of the buckle itself and the leather strap, when semi-set, the putty is trimmed to form the buckle. Here is a photo of the three indentations in some putty:

i have found that cutting the semi-cured putty gives a nice, sharp cut and will slightly close the gap between the 'leather' in the buckle and the putty which forms the buckle..

Peter

 

[Briggsy]

Some very good hacks to.make life easier there, thank you I shall have to try and remember them. Good look sticking to the project timeline!

Cheers and merry Christmas, Simon

 

[Steve Ski]

Looking good from here

 

[MalcC]

Impressive work.

Malc

 

[NigelR]

Good work. But I bet those few extra hours before Xmas won't be enough to forestall the November rush for SMW.......

 

[Fantomas]

Hi Peter,
This Italian company might have some interesting and useful parts: http://www.mondogad.it/geg_XVII-XVIIIsec.html
Hope it might help you.
Alex

 

[Merryweather]

Hi Peter,
This Italian company might have some interesting and useful parts: http://www.mondogad.it/geg_XVII-XVIIIsec.html
Hope it might help you.
Alex

Wow that's what 3D printing can really offer our hobby!
I love those boots and shoes options - inspired!

 

[Dr Force]

Beautiful work

 

[PLG]

Hi Peter,
This Italian company might have some interesting and useful parts: http://www.mondogad.it/geg_XVII-XVIIIsec.html
Hope it might help you.
Alex

Excellent link - many thanks for posting it. really usefull.

peter

 

[Oda]

I loved it just by reading the title.Now that i have seen what you are up to,I am mesmerised.Following with extreme interest.

Oda.

 

[PLG]

Hi Peter,
This Italian company might have some interesting and useful parts: http://www.mondogad.it/geg_XVII-XVIIIsec.html
Hope it might help you.
Alex

Alex - thanks again for the link - I have placed an order for some of their stuff.

Peter

 

[PLG]

A quick update - sorry for the poor photos, but here a couple with the cavalry about 90% sculpted. They need some refining which I will do in a couple of weeks time. i want to leave it a couple of weeks so that I approach the task with 'fresh eyes'.

 

[Briggsy]

Wow, they look great just as they are. Good idea to take a break though there has been a lot of work gone into this.

Cheers Simon

 

[Oda]

Love it!It is going to look great.

Oda.