Officier de Chasseurs en Tenue de ball

[DaddyO]

Moving recently into my favourite era of uniforms I completed this French gentleman. He's from the well known Metal Modeles range and is one sculpted by Michel Saez for a change.
Beautifully proportioned and engraved in 54mm (although he's quite large compared to the same scale figures by Chota Sahib) He needed a larger base to avoid looking cramped. I originally planned to use a converted lady by Phoenix as his companion, but decided once I started painting to keep things simple.

Tempted by the dark blue of a Grenadier uniform I stuck with the classic Chasseur green and used a complimentary dark red marble floor to balance this. The floor was made of tiles of thin plastic painted and glossed. (Not sure the careful marble effect pattern shows u very well, but hey ho)

Comments welcome and best wishes to all
Paul

 

[phil_h]

Lovely work Paul. The whites are fantastic, and I really like what you did with the tiled floor

Regards,
Phil

 

[OldTaff]

Lovely job, Paul, neat and crisp in every respect

Alan

 

[Nap]

Hi Paul

Nice finish mate like the green and the tiling you did ....a very dapper fellow indeed ....like us ..lol

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[Blind Pew]

Daddy, this is excellent. The face is great (the figure's not yours).
Good choice of groundwork, I agree with your instincts on that aspect.
I've done this one, and such apparently 'simple' figures are often anything but. You've got the greens and the whites just right, something people often find tricky.
The details are very crisply rendered as well.
You can tell I like what you've done!

 

[Ferris]

Nice one Paul. Good thinking on the complementary colour of the marble floor (which is noticable actually).

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Viking Bob]

Lovely finish and the whole lot is superb.

 

[jai]

well painted
the scene is a bit 'bare, but it is still in a ballroom

 

[pmfs]

Paul, lovely work on a classic figure. Well done!

Cheers,
Pedro.

 

[DaddyO]

I'm overwhelmed gentlefolks. Thanks indeed for the compliments
Dapper like us indeed Nap (Says he sitting in his jeans and not having shaved for a couple of days)
Glad you like the whites BP; starting to get to grips with them and no longer put off by the prospect of the uniforms of the Dutch of the same period (which are predominantly white)
I'm inclined to agree Jai, but when I added a vase on a stand it looked a bit crowded on the base and I decided to leave it plain and enjoy the pose.

Best to all
Paul

 

[Oda]

Lovely rendition of the uniform.The red marble effect looks awesome and it does balance the greens nicely.

Oda.

 

[swralph]

Simply lovely work all round Paul.

 

[Chris Ribchester]

Quality work, very nice

Chris

 

[John Bowery]

The marble came through load and clear. Well done.
Cheers
John

 

[arj]

Very nicely painted and presented.
The simplicity of the single figure and bare marble floor works perfectly.

Cheers,
Andrew