Completed Imperial Guard Horse Artillery

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Sounds like a good idea, I'll find out off the boss what time we'll be getting there. The place we are staying is:

The Beaumond Inn
13 London Rd, Newark NG24 1TN

I got the name a bit wrong, it is 2 years since we last stayed there. Hope this is still close for you.

Cheers Simon
 
The painting of the Imperial Guard Horse Artillery gunner is moving on quite nicely. I usually start with the face but because I was a bit worried about how I was going to paint all the red braid over grey primer, I started with the pelisse.

The Cadmium Red I use is quite a transparent colour and I know from past (bitter) experience that it won’t cover over mid/dark primers - not if it’s going to have the right ‘pop’ and saturation anyway. So I re-primed all the braid in white acrylic - which a little easier to manage on fine detail - then used an oil glaze over the top. It still needs some tidying, I had to move a very promising Hungarian knot because it was in the wrong place (the only ‘oh no’ moment so far) and also re-primed the buttons so that the gold ‘pops’ a bit more.

Anyway, I’ve now made a start on the face and a few more bits besides. I initially used the Historex sabretache insignia but it looked rather too pronounced compared to the embroidery on the actual artifact so I decided to just paint the design on.

So far so good apart a few bits of construction untidiness - now sorted out - that I didn’t even notice until he was primed.


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Thanks folks, I’m enjoying this project enormously and he seems to be progressing at quite a pace (for me anyway). The figure is about done with just the sword/sabretache area still needing quite a bit of work.

The Cadmium Red was great for glazing but useless for anything else as it was so transparent. Luckily I found a tube of Scarlet Lake lurking in my kitchen (as yer do) and that did the job just fine.

The Imperial Blue - which is still a bit shiny because it’s slightly wet - I tried to keep a blue/black and very dark in line with existing swatches of contemporary cloth which looks almost black and why I think the Imperial Guard uniforms looked so striking.

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Looking absolutely fantastic.

Paul Handley said:
I tried to keep a blue/black and very dark in line with existing swatches of contemporary cloth which looks almost black and why I think the Imperial Guard uniforms looked so striking.
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Well done, and well said. So many painters use too light a shade of blue for the French.
 
Been following this (as all the previous works) of Paul on FB (small subjects Historex) and it's an absolute stunner (as were the previous).

Oda.
 
Hi Paul

I take my hat off to you , quickly developed into a well detailed paint on the lace , nice work on the sabretache as well and the thigh trefoil

Agree ref the blue .....nicely Napoleonic

Looking forward to seeing more on this and all your projects

Happy benchtime

Nap
 
Thanks very much for the encouragement folks - appreciated. I was hoping my next update would be ‘finished’, but everything takes longer than you think and I had an infected tooth to deal with too (now pulled). Anyway; Gunner update - the painting of the horse and figure is about complete; he had a coat of matt varnish that revealed quite a bit of tidying up once the shine was removed; work which I’ve now done. Then I’ll be doing some varnish tests for ‘matt but not too matt’ for the final coat.

In the meantime I worked out the positioning of the horse and figure on the base with a plan to make rear of the scene quite heavy foliage - something I’d never really modelled before and was keen to do. He’s supposed to be having an Autumnal wander back to France and leaving Austria after the exertions of Wagram and all that War of the 5th Coalition mullarky.

Once this project is complete I’ve got a scratch built foot artillery figure to finish off and I’ve also been fiddling with an early French line infantry figure - he was an H&V resin figure originally very kindly sold to me by Keith Davidson at the last White Rose meet. I’ve replaced the head with a Nemrod item and scratch built the Tarleton from a Historex dragoon helmet and brushing up my knowledge of revolutionary French infantry uniforms. After the labour intensive, time consuming Historex projects just concentrating on a bit of painting will be nice - and (relatively) quick.

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Hi Paul

That gunner looks great , really neat lacework on him , love the dark blue as well as the pose , nice groundwork with the horse matching the figure in modelling skill

The other project looks fun , look forward to seeing more on that in a separate V Bench

This has been a fun V bench to follow , hope to see the final piece soon in the Completed forum

Have fun @ the bench

Nap
 

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