Richie
A Fixture
Hi All,
I have the great pleasure yet again to receive one of the first casting from Rob Hardwick owner of The Imperial Gallery of his latest new 120mm release depicting Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard officer commanding Rorke's Drift mission station 22nd-23rd January 1879.
www.imperialgallery.co.uk
The pose is something a little bit different and excellently sculpted by the very talented Moz Corry. The figure comes with a choice of two heads one with the foreign sevice helmet and one without. My personal preference for this build is the one without, I must say Moz has made a wonderful portrayal of the head and face of Lt. John Chard.
Lt Chard will be for ever immortalised and synonymous with the 1964 movie Zulu played by Stanley Baker who with Cy Enfield brought the story of Rorke's Drift to the modern masses.
THE FIGURE.
Cast in grey resin, superbly crafted by Moz with some lovely detail and drapery as you would expect also very well engineered. After removing all the casting blocks and minimal clean up I dry fitted the figure together and it goes together like a dream. This is only about an hour's work to get it to this stage.
The riding breeches are actually textured, an outstanding touch with the sculpting Moz
.
He has the O.R. five button tunic which would have garter blue velvet facings and cord riding breeches and boots, he carries a Webley Royal Irish Constabulary pattern revolver. Here is Chard's actual revolver in the Royal Engineer's Museum.
I did cut the base down and the only reason behind this was to fit one of my existing wooden plinth bases. Hopefully tomorrow I can get a little bit more cleaning up done and undercoated.
Hope you like.
Again an absolute cracker Rob thank you so much and good luck with this one.
cheers
Richie
I have the great pleasure yet again to receive one of the first casting from Rob Hardwick owner of The Imperial Gallery of his latest new 120mm release depicting Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard officer commanding Rorke's Drift mission station 22nd-23rd January 1879.
www.imperialgallery.co.uk
The pose is something a little bit different and excellently sculpted by the very talented Moz Corry. The figure comes with a choice of two heads one with the foreign sevice helmet and one without. My personal preference for this build is the one without, I must say Moz has made a wonderful portrayal of the head and face of Lt. John Chard.
Lt Chard will be for ever immortalised and synonymous with the 1964 movie Zulu played by Stanley Baker who with Cy Enfield brought the story of Rorke's Drift to the modern masses.
THE FIGURE.
Cast in grey resin, superbly crafted by Moz with some lovely detail and drapery as you would expect also very well engineered. After removing all the casting blocks and minimal clean up I dry fitted the figure together and it goes together like a dream. This is only about an hour's work to get it to this stage.
The riding breeches are actually textured, an outstanding touch with the sculpting Moz
.He has the O.R. five button tunic which would have garter blue velvet facings and cord riding breeches and boots, he carries a Webley Royal Irish Constabulary pattern revolver. Here is Chard's actual revolver in the Royal Engineer's Museum.
I did cut the base down and the only reason behind this was to fit one of my existing wooden plinth bases. Hopefully tomorrow I can get a little bit more cleaning up done and undercoated.
Hope you like.
Again an absolute cracker Rob thank you so much and good luck with this one.
cheers
Richie
Now if you can't behave.
