Officer, Coldstream GuardsWaterloo, 1815

[Edorta]

Officer, Coldstream GuardsWaterloo, 1815.
Sculpture: Paul Deheleanu
Painting: Marc Masclans
Material: Resin
Number of parts of the kit: 6
Scale: 1/12

 

[misfit151]

Absolutely fabulous figure as is the box art.... Mike

 

[Warren SMITH]

Looks amazing... Will Jimbo add legs.. I hope so..

 

[Redcap]

Marvellous bust and the paint job is premier league. The 'Red' a difficult colour to get 'right' with paint, is handled with incredible realism.

A winning combination.

Gary

 

[Paul Kernan]

Great sculpt (and box art) especially his normal facial features. I'm not a big fan of the Hollywood good looks that a lot of busts seem to have

 

[MCPWilk]

At 1/12 (150mm) it would look far better as a full figure...............

Mike

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Wonderful panting - but wrong colours.

The "blue" was much darker, nearly black - and the red significant more brighter!






The golden strands were embroidered with a pattern that refracted the light.

You should be able to see that on this scale - the way they are painted, they look much too smooth!



And yeeees, I am a rivet counter.

Cheers

 

[MCPWilk]

Guards officers' tunics then and now really are works of art. The lace is embroidered, but what you see at 1' looking at a 1/12 scale figure is what you would see at 12' looking at the real uniform (the same is true of all scales, rivets included). Althought the embroidered nature of the lace is visble up close, it is much less so at 12' e.g. https://www.facebook.com/1st.FFG.18...0817385.-2207520000./5312991362110678/?type=3 and https://www.facebook.com/1st.FFG.18...0817385.-2207520000./5312999178776563/?type=3. It is also worth considering that uniforms worn at St James Palace might look different in the field - dyes in the Waterloo period were organic, not synthetic.

Mike

 

[Dr Bison]

Concerning the colour of an officer's tunic, here are 3 photos of the "Short-tailed coatee, undress, worn by Lieutenant-Colonel William Miller, 3rd Battalion, 1st Foot Guards, 1815 (c)" from the collection of the National Army Museum in London.

The red here is indeed very dark, the lace pattern is hard to make out. But Martin is correct, as far as the blue colour on the collar and the cuffs is concerned: it seems to have been much darker.

Karl