The Old North Bridge Concord Mass. April 1775

[John Ballard]

Just as an exercise in painting I decided to have a stab at a group of 40mm minute men from Sash and Saber. Now they are not large scale quality but they are great fun to paint and allow bigger scenes without taking up too much real estate.

All done in acrylics with a scratched base.
John

 

[tomifune]

Nice job on the whole scene.

Bob

 

[pmfs]

Hi John!

I wish seeing more of this scale here in PF.
Great scene you did.

Cheers

 

[marco55]

This is the kind of stuff I like.Great job.
Mark

 

[garyhiggins]

It's a little known fact that they were actually called MI-nute Men on account of none of them being over 4' tall.
Nice job John, best wishes, Gary.

 

[chippy]

Nice job John , I can see the attraction in using smaller scale figures to produce a diorama both in size of the finished base and the cost of what that would have been had the figures all been 54 mm
The bridge is a work of art on it's own .
chippy

 

[Ray Mootsey]

Hello, not my scale by no means, But this is great work. I really like it, keep it up, Ray

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Thats just great John. Excercise in perserverence and skill. Plus its very inspring. You are more than a bust sculptor for sure!

Colin

 

[John Ballard]

Bob, pmfs, Mark, Gary, Chippy, and Colin, you are all most kind. I do enjoy building the groundwork for these type of diorama's and this small scale is very enjoyable to paint. I will certainly order some more figures, sometime and repeat this process. It does wonders for the painting technique as well.
John

 

[OldTaff]

An unusual subject, beautifully done. We don't see much in the way of bridges in vignettes and dioramas[apart from WW2];..refreshing.

 

[Wings5797]

Awesome work John.
Quite a task to organise so many figures on a relatively small base.
I was starting to think that the age of the Shep Payne'esk massive dioramas was passed.
Just brilliant Mate.
Keith

 

[John Bowery]

Very nice scene and catches the eye nicely.
Cheers
John

 

[El Tché]

Aaaaaaaah I always love crowded dio with those "small" soldiers 40mm (or even 28mm)
It s always great
Well done on this job !