French Cavalry Officer, Thirty-Years War

[Jason W.]

This was a second attempt in painting a dapple grey in oils. The last was in the late 90's! The figure and equipment are painted with acrylics.

The horse is from Historex and the figure is original. The head of the figure is from Historex with moustache and goatee added. The saddle is scratch as well as the officers sword. There some conversion work on the lobster/Ironside helmet. It's the same one I used in the ECW project I just finished. Going by the reference I had, the dome is fluted with nose guard through visor and feathers added to the top.

Thanks for looking.

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[Marcel]

Excellent work Jason!

Cheers,
Marcel.

 

[gordy]

Very nice piece Jason cracking clean work !

What is the grass for the base ?

 

[billyturnip]

He looks great Jason, just the thing I'm interested in at the moment. Except mine are a bit flatter.

Roger.

 

[Jason W.]

Thanks guys!

Gordy, the grass is from JoeFix. Really neat stuff. http://www.michtoy.com/item-JFX-133-Long_Green_Grass.html

 

[megroot]

Very nice work Jason.

Marc

 

[Tommi]

Nice work Jason, I like the subject and the style of painting. How did you paint the dapple effect?

Tommi

 

[Jason W.]

Thanks Marc!

Tommi, I had to wait until the overall coat was mostly dry then it was just stippling light grey to off white colors in spots. If I had to do it again, I would not make the spots so even and then spread the patterns apart more. Maybe make more shapes than round spots. Still, I'm happy with how turned out and I feel I did a pretty good job considering it was my second attempt at a dapple.