Husar de San Narciso 1809

[tonydawe]

Excellent sculpting Marcel. I'm looking forward to seeing it painted.

 

[Diegoff]

Hi Marcel

My apologies, I have been on many sites since putting up the comment on the cigarettes, it does seem pretty strange, in some cases its in the 1600’s the a maize paper was used as a outer casing, and on others much later, so I may be wrong in my research for this.

Diego, its a strange subject I must admit, so thank you for the insight ....

Dave

It´s nothing, Dave. It is really dificult to set up a starting line in habits like this, sometimes originated at different places in different moments.
This kind of cigarretes were a curiosity for foreigners that saw the spanish smoking them continuosly... It seems that they were great smokers! ;D.

Diego

 

[caramba]

Looks great so far, Marcel. I look forward to see it painted.
M.

 

[1969]

Marcel you are doing a great job mate and the best bit is still to come..the painting

All the best mate

Steve

 

[gothicgeek]

Great sculpting Marcel, looking forward to seeing him painted

Mark

 

[davidmitchell]

Looking good so far Marcel, look forward to seeing it painted.

Cheers David

 

[Marcel]

Tony, Marcin, Steve, Mark and David thanks for the nice comments!

Soon pictures of the paintwork.

Marcel.

 

[Marcel]

The paintwork

The last weeks I spend every hour I could find on painting this figure.
Now most parts are finished and I have to glue all the pieces together and mount it on the ground work. And then finish the last details like straps and sword. Yesterday I increased the contrast on the white because I wasn't satisfied how it was looking, hopefully it looks good now. Still find white a difficult color to do.
Thanks for looking and here are the pictures.
All comments are welcome!

Cheers,
Marcel.

 

[megroot]

Excellent work Marcel,
maybe some more shading in the deepest recess, and under the arm's.

Hope to see him on the groundwork soon.
Are you going to Euro????

Marc

 

[Marcel]

Thanks Marc!
I will have a look. I have to do some touch ups anyway when it's all glued together and placed on the base work.

No, its a pity but I won't be at Euro this year. I would like to go but it's not possible at the moment. But I'm planning to go with the family next year and have some days sightseeing also.

Marcel.

 

[Jeff T]

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Beautiful work Marcel!!

Your figure is looking very nice indeed.


Cheers,
Jeff.

 

[unknown01]

Nice conversion and sculpting.
I think wonderful technique and idea.
Great!

Mitsutaka

 

[ubbi]

Fantastic !! Bravo!!



Stefano

 

[housecarl]

Superb job Marcel, I dosn't matter if I thought the pole was on the thick side, with painting like this.
Carl.

 

[Diegoff]

Very good job!

 

[Marcel]

Thanks for the compliments Jeff, Mitsutaka, Stefano, Carl and Diego!

Marcel.

 

[Christos]

Very good work Marcel!!!