Completed Critique Grenadier-Velites, Royal Italian Guard, 1809

[Lasalle]

Hi all! My latest creation on a Metal Modeles mini. The starting piece is the "Fusilier-Grenadier Imperial Guard" (Ref. PV01), to which I modified the head, replacing it with the bonnet a poil. The headgear was also amended by deleting the "Imperial" and covering it with "milliput". I also added the little grenades (Historex pieces) on the code of dress. For the setting I used a portion of the wall of the "Nemrod-Historex".
I hope you enjoy it and see you soon!
Andrea

 

[megroot]

Very, very nice work.

marc

 

[Lasalle]

Thanks Marc!
Andrea

 

[Edorta]

Nice work Andrea, I like the brick wall, it works very well with the figure. Fine painting.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Lasalle]

Thank you Eduardo

 

[Tecumsea]

Great job on the Whites first class overall and my favourite period...............Keith

 

[billyturnip]

Lovely work Andrea, I've still got a soft spot for a nice Napoleonic figure.

Roger.

 

[Aveleira]

Beautifull work!!

Regards
Pedro

 

[John Bowery]

Andrea,
Nicely done.
Cheers
John

 

[Lasalle]

Thanks to all!
Andrea

 

[ChaosCossack]

Great job, Andrea... as usual!
Your whites are perfect and I really like the grass green facings. The small details of your conversion work make all the difference in your figures.
Overall a very effective piece

Cheers
Colin

 

[Lasalle]

Thanks Colin!
Andrea

 

[gudel]

Nice work.
g.

 

[Lasalle]

Nice work.
g.

Grazie!

 

[Tonton]

I’ve already registered a “like” for this but, on reflection, am not too comfortable with the size of the bricks… aren’t they a bit too large for the scale of the figure? Or were larger bricks available at this time in continental Europe than we’re used to? A brick should be 6.7mm long in 1/32, based on a modern (British) brick length of 215mm.
Perhaps I'm being too critical.

 

[Lasalle]

I’ve already registered a “like” for this but, on reflection, am not too comfortable with the size of the bricks… aren’t they a bit too large for the scale of the figure? Or were larger bricks available at this time in continental Europe than we’re used to? A brick should be 6.7mm long in 1/32, based on a modern (British) brick length of 215mm.
Perhaps I'm being too critical.

I chose this portion of the wall because it is part of the range "Historex-NCO" producing pieces in 1/32 scale, therefore perfectly compatible with pieces in 54 mm.

 

[Tonton]

OK. If my point is valid it’s a criticism of Historex and not you, Lasalle.

 

[Lasalle]

Sure, I understand. Actually, looking at them well, the bricks are perhaps a bit oversized....
Thanks!

 

[Odins Eye]

What a lovely piece of work! I have a real soft spot for Napoleonic era figures because of the colour. Please excuse my ignorance but what scale is this please? At a guess it looks like 54mm but I may be wrong of course. Beautiful. Thanks.

 

[Mike Stevens]

Well done sir.

Mike