Officer 23rd Regiment Welch Fusiliers - Mitches Military Models

[Grod]

Hello Folks
Released at the Telford Show last week this figure is now available on general release direct from the website or by contacting [email protected]
Cheers
Gordon

 

[Gellso]

Yo Big G,

Looks good mate....my fingers are cramping up just looking at the flag.
Would be worth it though.

Grant

 

[Don]

Very nice bust Gordon, Moz has produced another cracker.

Love it!

Don

 

[megroot]

Awesome bust.
Is the flag with brodery???

Marc

 

[Nap]

Hi Guys ,

I have this its nice , few things that need working on IMO ..........

I or someone I know will be adding a finial and cords to the flag .

Marc , the flag is totally blank allowing a posibilty of different Regts to be depicted .

Be good to se one painted up

Nap

 

[Funky50]

Can anyone give any information of where I can find out what this colour would have looked like.....?

 

[Grod]

Hello Kevin
The colours can be depicted as Regimental or Kings. Try this link which is quite useful for info on napoleonic flags.
http://store.warlordgames.com/colle...-of-foot-royal-welsh-fusiliers-flag-1789-1815
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers
Gordon

 

[Funky50]

Hello Kevin
The colours can be depicted as Regimental or Kings. Try this link which is quite useful for info on napoleonic flags.
http://store.warlordgames.com/colle...-of-foot-royal-welsh-fusiliers-flag-1789-1815
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers
Gordon




View attachment 142587

Cheers Gordon as always a great help.....this is a really nice bust but that colour will give me sleepless nights...all the best...Kevin

 

[polyphemus]

I received this in the post today and here are a few observations;

The piece is superbly sculpted and cast with not a great deal of clean up required.
I really like the face on this one, not the usual cliché of an upper class officer. This character has been sculpted with very strong features and large ears, a definitely masculine face. Reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who, yet.
A short length of wooden dowel is supplied for the bottom section of the staff. This has a slightly rough and pronounced grain which should be capable of being worked/broken to give a splintered effect as in Gordon's photograph.
There isn't a base/pedestal supplied.
A test dry fit suggests that gluing the arm to the body first prevents the standard from being fitted so I guess the standard fits to the shoulder first then the arm is fitted in place.

The standard itself measures 140mm from the bottom edge of the material to the top of the casting of the flag. In reality these standards were approximately 6 feet square and at the apparent scale of the piece that would equate to around 200mm. To me that suggests that not only has the base of the staff been damaged but also the top of the staff has been lost causing the standard to be wrapped around the remains of the staff. In order to fit a finial and cords I think the casting of the standard would need to be extended. At this stage I think I'd be tempted to model /paint the standard in a battle damaged condition perhaps adding some damage/holes here & there & general weathering. Possibly adding cords wrapped around the area where the standard is bunched over his shoulder. There are one or two reference points sculpted onto the material of the standard such as one of the corners visible in Gordon's photograph & I think one method might be to draw the standard out full size on a piece of paper and from that try to work the various lines and angles relative to that corner. That might suggest that the King's Colour might be the easier option but I'm not planning to find out in the short term!

Hope that helps?

Geoff

 

[Grod]

I received this in the post today and here are a few observations;

The piece is superbly sculpted and cast with not a great deal of clean up required.
I really like the face on this one, not the usual cliché of an upper class officer. This character has been sculpted with very strong features and large ears, a definitely masculine face. Reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who, yet.
A short length of wooden dowel is supplied for the bottom section of the staff. This has a slightly rough and pronounced grain which should be capable of being worked/broken to give a splintered effect as in Gordon's photograph.
There isn't a base/pedestal supplied.
A test dry fit suggests that gluing the arm to the body first prevents the standard from being fitted so I guess the standard fits to the shoulder first then the arm is fitted in place.

The standard itself measures 140mm from the bottom edge of the material to the top of the casting of the flag. In reality these standards were approximately 6 feet square and at the apparent scale of the piece that would equate to around 200mm. To me that suggests that not only has the base of the staff been damaged but also the top of the staff has been lost causing the standard to be wrapped around the remains of the staff. In order to fit a finial and cords I think the casting of the standard would need to be extended. At this stage I think I'd be tempted to model /paint the standard in a battle damaged condition perhaps adding some damage/holes here & there & general weathering. Possibly adding cords wrapped around the area where the standard is bunched over his shoulder. There are one or two reference points sculpted onto the material of the standard such as one of the corners visible in Gordon's photograph & I think one method might be to draw the standard out full size on a piece of paper and from that try to work the various lines and angles relative to that corner. That might suggest that the King's Colour might be the easier option but I'm not planning to find out in the short term!

Hope that helps?

Geoff

Thanks for this Geoff.
As a bust Maurice did not sculpt the flag to its complete dimensions but stunted it as as you quite rightly point out it would extend much further back. If you wished to add the finial it would have to be extended.I managed to fit the arm first but made the flag pliable by placing it in hot water for a few seconds and then fitted it over the shoulder.
By altering the breast plate the figure could be made to represent other regiments but I would have to study Franklins British Napoleonic Uniforms to match a similarly laced unit.
I would like a full figure version of this bust at some point but with the flag upright.

Gordon