WIP General of Division Edouard de Colbert-Chabanais bust 200mm
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Colin_Fraser
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A note on awards….for Nap.
The bust is based on this well known portrait of Colbert.
I don’t know when it was painted but I’m guessing first restoration, between the 1814 abdication and the hundred days, when Colbert was left in command of the red lancers under the King.
The Grand Cross and Grand Officer of the Legion were awarded in the mid to late 1820’s, after Colbert’s rehabilitation for having served Napoleon in the Waterloo campaign. The grand cross and grand officer distinctions are designated with plaques rather than medals, so I’m presuming the two legion medals shown in the portrait are his Officier and Commandant awards. Ebroin has sculpted them with imperial eagles on the central disk (generally worn on the reverse side of the Emperor’s head in profile), indicating imperial rather the restoration awards.
The royalist Chevalier of St. Louis was awarded August 1814. That is the award sculpted under the left epaulette.
The Commander of the Military Order of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (awarded Colbert in 1810) is a question mark. Wiki says the Commander and Grand Cross awards had rays between the arm of the cross but the Commander crosses I found on the net do not. In addition, a close review of the portrait makes it hard to see any rays between the medal’s arms. Ebroin has this right on the model.
......To you Colin for this post
The bust is based on this well known portrait of Colbert.
I don’t know when it was painted but I’m guessing first restoration, between the 1814 abdication and the hundred days, when Colbert was left in command of the red lancers under the King.
The Grand Cross and Grand Officer of the Legion were awarded in the mid to late 1820’s, after Colbert’s rehabilitation for having served Napoleon in the Waterloo campaign. The grand cross and grand officer distinctions are designated with plaques rather than medals, so I’m presuming the two legion medals shown in the portrait are his Officier and Commandant awards. Ebroin has sculpted them with imperial eagles on the central disk (generally worn on the reverse side of the Emperor’s head in profile), indicating imperial rather the restoration awards.
The royalist Chevalier of St. Louis was awarded August 1814. That is the award sculpted under the left epaulette.
The Commander of the Military Order of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (awarded Colbert in 1810) is a question mark. Wiki says the Commander and Grand Cross awards had rays between the arm of the cross but the Commander crosses I found on the net do not. In addition, a close review of the portrait makes it hard to see any rays between the medal’s arms. Ebroin has this right on the model.
......To you Colin for this post
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Briggsy
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Agreed those eppulets are great, must have taken many sessions to build up. I like that you are using a different shade on them.
Simon
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Colin_Fraser
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Still building up the colour on the epaulettes but they will likely differ from the oak leaf embroidery. Makes it more interesting.
Re. Building them up…not sure if you are referring to the sculpting challenge or my paint job. I’m pretty sure this is a digital sculpt so the epaulettes would have been a different sort of challenge than putty.
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Colin_Fraser
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Thanks Malc. I love models that trigger research, whether uniform, awards or bio. I think 90% plus of my projects are personality figures because I like researching the bio of the individual I’m working on. I find I stay more engaged with a project doing a portrait than I would doing soldier X of regiment Z.
Colin_Fraser
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Epaulettes progress
Briggsy
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A great transformation, nice bright bullion eppulets, I had meant in my last reply the act of physically building them but 3D printed is another skill set entirely.
Simon
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