WIP Hollowcast 220mm Cuirassier resurrection.....maybe

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Babelfish said:
I'm filing this one under "Polishing a Jobbie".
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My too. But I intend that he be the most marvellously polished jobbie since jobbie polishing became a thing. Infact I would go so far as to say that jobbie polishing should be recognised as a formal BMSS medal category!


Redcap said:
'Each to their own' and all that but sometimes you have to ask..."Why?"
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For fun and the challenge. I started modelling in the 1960s and doing the best you can with what you have got, however rough it is was the way it was done. You didn't enjoy it any the less.
It is sad that that seems to have gone from hobbies these days.
 
Rob said:
My too. But I intend that he be the most marvellously polished jobbie since jobbie polishing became a thing. Infact I would go so far as to say that jobbie polishing should be recognised as a formal BMSS medal category!




For fun and the challenge. I started modelling in the 1960s and doing the best you can with what you have got, however rough it is was the way it was done. You didn't enjoy it any the less.
It is sad that that seems to have gone from hobbies these days.
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I agree. I paint what appeals to me, whether popular or not. I paint it as best I can, whether successfully or not.... and love every minute of it. And that's reward enough for me.
Rick
 
I have this guy primed now baking in the sun. Apart from a few pinholes he is OK.
I fully finished the cape, completed the scabbard and sculpted the marmouset and mane on the helmet. I opted for the 1811 ancien style helmet shape so I could cheat with the most untidy style of mane and hide the majority of my pitiful work on the cimier.
I just have the section of coat tail to add behind his right leg that I forgot and later build the helmet plume. The sword blade and his various belts will be added during the painting.

He almost looks like something worth painting!

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I have picked 1st Regiment (easiest number to cut out of styrene for the cimier frontplate) so red facings everywhere, overall trousers in grey, fur boots in red-brown but I am stuck for ideas on the looted civilian cape. My thought is a dark green, probably with some kind of border detail. Any better ideas? It is very narrow so I see it probably as a woman's cape.
 
Started the colouring in. I had to get the dirty work (sponging) on the breastplate done first then heavy coat of gloss varnish to smooth the texture and protect it from the inevitable handling. Now working up the inner lining cloth to the cuirass and the other red details.
Apart from the face behind the beard, which is beautifully sculpted, the rest of the figure only has at best a crude surface detail/texture. I am of the suspicion that this figure has been re-sculpted around an existing/commercial head prior to being hollow cast. I think by different sculptors.

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Been watching this and I honestly think you have done a good job rescuing this figure. From the bare bones of what you had it’s not looking bad at all. Yes it’s of it’s time it’s no where near the large sculpts you can get now. But if it’s brought you pleasure and your enjoying it then why not.

It’s about having fun and if you get something your proud of at the end of it then that’s all that matters. Keep up The polishing it seems to be working.

Steve

TFB Miniatures Team
 
Thanks guys, I bought this piece purely for the fun of doing it, fully accepting it's shortcomings and more than half prepared to just bin it if the task proved more time and effort than I wanted to spend. There is no way I can afford a real 200+mm Napoleonic figure and even if I could, I doubt my capability to make it look like it would deserve.
That said I am pleasantly surprised in the way he is coming out and in some regards do regret he is not a better sculpt, but then, the sheer fact that he isn't is what keeps me from sinking more and more time into trying to improve him.

Warren SMITH said:
........ To me its like getting out one of the old Airfix 1/12 figures and having a play......
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Yeah, it is exactly that. It is "playing" and having a bit of fun. Knowing that he is never going to look anything more than passable means I don't have to beat myself up about smooth transitions, tonal balance, implied shadow effects and the rest of the baggage of higher skill level painting.
At my ability (and interest) level it is nice to have a piece that I am not disappointed with.
 
Heck, Rob he's undergone and is undergoing an amazing transformation. If I were you I'd display him alongside a pic of what he looked like when you started. The comparison is startling (in a good way).
Rick
 
More progress than expected today due to rain in Manchester.

Resurrected Cuirassier now has a face. Flesh tones are mainly Rackham and Miniature Paint acrylic. Blown up image shows some tidying needs doing around the left eye and to remove the sharp demarcation between cheek and beard.

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Slowly continuing progress on this guy. I sponge textured the inner liner of his looted cloak and painted it a natural linen colour. Painted the base colour and shading on his tunic and overalls and blocked in areas of the helmet and cuirass straps prior to a spray over with a protective coat of matt varnish.
Being so big he does not fit my painter's handle and is getting a lot of handling on already painted surfaces. Glad I don't have an ongoing desire to do stuff this big, no figure in 1/9 should extend below the chest.


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Now I am at a point where I need some help with how to weather him. I have started researching snow effect compounds for the base but currently he is far too clean to be struggling through Russian snow and mud. How do you do reflect that wear on the uniform in this scale?
 
Well I have to say congrats, you are turning this into something good.considering how it started out your patience is paying off well done.

Steve

TFB Miniatures Team
 

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