Historex Spare Parts Madness

[stevee317]

Been away from here for a while, but back just in time to view The Evening of Waterloo thread from peedee, Fabulous concept and kudos to you. But I want you to know the following is all your fault. I was minding my own business (PICTURES POSTED WILL BE IN ORDER OF TALE) trying to finish up a Sapper Dragoon from spares and came up with this ( flag courtesy of The FlagDude Website). Whilst doing this, my beautiful wife returns from visiting her best friend in England. While there she jaunts over to Paris(That's a Tale for another time) there she purchased a Metal Models mounted Murat for me. So while working on Murat, I think to myself Hey I have all these Historex parts, why not make his aid de camp Manhes, you know riding up to the head of the troops and ordering a charge. OK... then who is he riding up to.... a General cool, but wait the General needs an Aid de camp and maybe another officer. OK... but wait there's more... some sort of escort. Thankfully I have no more cuirasses, or helmets in my spares so I had to stop. The escort will be the standard bearer and trumpeter flanked by a trooper on each side. When will the Madness end

 

[Huw63]

The madness never ends... just made a list to get all outstanding parts for a pet project. Anyway I like it very much Steve.

 

[Mat Lambert]

Wow, that will be an impressive scene of mounted figures. I particularly like the way you have posed the cuirassier in the front right of the last few images - he is leaning back very dynamically but looks natural too.
Cheers
Mat

 

[peedee]

I love the poses,
I love the choices of unit and rank,
I love the sapper and the Murat,
I love the madness,
I think I love your wife.

"Vive l'amour et l'insanitie"

Paul.

 

[Blind Pew]

Mad maybe, but good stuff!

 

[Tonton]

It may be my eyesight but the eye of the Sapper Dragoon's horse seems a bit weird. Too human-looking for me. Or is it the lighting?

Great concept.

Jeff

 

[chippy]

Mr. Peedee has a lot to answer for as far as madness goes on this site . I started out doing a small diorama single Dutch Red Lancer with serving wench . I then thought this could be an Inn scene how about I make a table and benches and have a few French infantry figures sat and standing around drinking , hang on if I had the yard gates opened I could have the rest of the Grand Army marching in using different scales from 54mm 40mm 25mm to 15mm gaming figures they could stretch into infinity . What to do What to Do . Let Mr Peedee continue his slide into Modelling Madness ( he will be fondly remembered ) . and go back to what I stared on .
That's some great stuff you have produced and I wish I had more spare parts to play around with but I will definitely be pulling some of my old projects out of storage after seeing your work .
chippy

 

[peedee]

Blame me if you like for all this chaps.

That's perfectly fine.

but I didn't put all these spare parts in your homes.

So ....apparently, it's all my fault that didn'd paint 'em when you bought 'em, but if you had done, you couldn't join in the madness now!

Fair enough I like even handed arguments.

I shall stay here, glueing connecting straps on my swingle trees, before I polish my futchel.

Au Revoir mes amis

Vive les maquettistes

Paul.

 

[peedee]

Mon pauvre petit.

Paul

 

[OldTaff]

Sacre flamin' bleu, nom du chien avec la rage! Don't you all know by now that we are the lunatics in charge of the asylum ? It's a fine madness that we have, fuelled by fossicking around in Historex spares. Then look what happens....beautifully engineered masterpieces, each one unique. Vive les maquettistes !

Alan