Back in January 2010 I painted my first Napoleonic Marshal (Le Cimier’s Murat), quickly followed by Lannes. These were such excellent sculpts by Bruno Leibovitz that I quickly added Ney and Bessieres (that completed the BL element of the range). Over the next three years I managed to acquire and complete ten more of Le Cimier’s Marshals range, until the supply started to dry up towards the end of 2013.
After that I managed to get a couple of New Hope Design Marshals (Lefebvre and Marmont) and LCs St. Cyr.
Lefebvre was fun to paint, but Marmont was a bit of a construction nightmare, and St Cyr daunted me with his lack of eye detail. Both got relegated to the depths of my GA, until recently.
The figure of Marmont itself was an excellent sculpt and generally decent casting. However, the problem was that the sword belt, sword and sabretache were cast together, and the locating recess in the figure was an extremely poor fit. The whole assembly also had to be bent carefully to fit around the figure, and the sword hilt required re-building since the casting was incomplete.
I don’t like being beaten by a poor casting fit, so I eventually dragged the kit out of the GA and attacked it with file and knife. The end result would be on a base or in the bin.
It would appear that the kit-bashing gods were with me, and I’ve now managed to complete the painting (my usual oils and printers inks over enamels):-
St Cyr is also under way and will eventually join the first fifteen:-
I’ve also recently bought Metal Modeles', Soult and Bernadotte, and Figurinitaly’s Poniatowski and Davout. The MMs are by Leibovitz (brilliant!) and the latter two by Antonio Zapatero (equally superb!):-
So I guess I’ll have some pleasant evenings to look forward to.
Cheers,
Andrew
After that I managed to get a couple of New Hope Design Marshals (Lefebvre and Marmont) and LCs St. Cyr.
Lefebvre was fun to paint, but Marmont was a bit of a construction nightmare, and St Cyr daunted me with his lack of eye detail. Both got relegated to the depths of my GA, until recently.
The figure of Marmont itself was an excellent sculpt and generally decent casting. However, the problem was that the sword belt, sword and sabretache were cast together, and the locating recess in the figure was an extremely poor fit. The whole assembly also had to be bent carefully to fit around the figure, and the sword hilt required re-building since the casting was incomplete.
I don’t like being beaten by a poor casting fit, so I eventually dragged the kit out of the GA and attacked it with file and knife. The end result would be on a base or in the bin.
It would appear that the kit-bashing gods were with me, and I’ve now managed to complete the painting (my usual oils and printers inks over enamels):-
St Cyr is also under way and will eventually join the first fifteen:-
I’ve also recently bought Metal Modeles', Soult and Bernadotte, and Figurinitaly’s Poniatowski and Davout. The MMs are by Leibovitz (brilliant!) and the latter two by Antonio Zapatero (equally superb!):-
So I guess I’ll have some pleasant evenings to look forward to.
Cheers,
Andrew
