Completed Critique Guard Zouave at Razonville 1870

[tiberius57]

Excellent job, Colin! Looks very, very good!
Your photography improved a lot! Brings out much more better the quality work that you did!
The only suggestion that I have is to crop the image more. Again is just a suggestion. I think that the photos will bring out your work better in a portrait format than in a landscape format. Something like this:


Keep up the excellent work, my friend.
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanx Keith, much appreciated, my friend.
And thanx to you too Zeno, Never occured to me to crop in that orientation. I the longer shots I wanted the base to be in the image. Then I tucked in a bit to get just the fig in.
I'll be bringing him to the London show, I'd like you and the rest of the crew to see it in person and get your opinions.

Cheers, my brother

Colin

 

[T-34/85]

Great job Colin! I'll be referencing your work when I get this ready for paint, Well done
Tom

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanx Tom
The beauty of this fig is it can be painted any number of ways... Zouave of the Line (1st, 2nd or 3rd Regt), Zouave of the Guard, Turcos... all anywhere from 1854 to 1914. With a tiny bit of tinkering (mainly adding tails to the sash and in some cases removing the piping from the pantaloons and changing the bayonet to a socket type) you can even depict one of the Zouave regiments from the American Civil War. He'd look pretty cool as a New York Fire Zouave or even better, a Louisianna Tiger.

Colin

 

[T-34/85]

Thanx Tom
The beauty of this fig is it can be painted any number of ways... Zouave of the Line (1st, 2nd or 3rd Regt), Zouave of the Guard, Turcos... all anywhere from 1854 to 1914. With a tiny bit of tinkering (mainly adding tails to the sash and in some cases removing the piping from the pantaloons and changing the bayonet to a socket type) you can even depict one of the Zouave regiments from the American Civil War. He'd look pretty cool as a New York Fire Zouave or even better, a Louisianna Tiger.

Colin

I never thought about those possibilities, thanks Colin I currently have this figure on my bench and I'll give this some thought and maybe convert it
Tom

 

[ChaosCossack]

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this fig, Tom.

Don't be shy

Colin

 

[la quincaille]

great painting!
I must buy this figure, you can paint a zouave, a trucos, a french volunteer from west as explainedChaosCossack.
French doesn't sculpt zouave or turcos figures ( except JMD or RGT.57), what a pity.
The reason ? in the french culture, the 1870 war is a defeat, and whe never speak about defeat....

 

[ChaosCossack]

I forgot about the Western Volunteers, Pope's Guard and Canadian Zouaves, all incarnations of the same unit. Really nice sky blue uniforms.

Colin

 

[ellie]

Yes so Meany combinations of zaouve units that can be done with this figure , with a little work he can be most units. for those who wish to order him he can be ordered through our web site elliesminiatures.com or come and see us at Euro.

ian

 

[zane666]

I think they can be used for the early part of WW1 as well. Judging by the huge favourable response Ian, did you have any plans for any other zouaves?

regards Zane

 

[ChaosCossack]

You're right Zane. Really just a rifle change and it's done.