Progress has slowed. Partly due to other comittments but also because getting these lads cleaned up and assembled was a bigger job than I expected.
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| Prince August SYW Dragoons with bicorne heads added. |
I still haven't attached the carbines. I'm one short and am wondering how well a drop of glue will hold them for travel to and from a convention not to mention during play. However, I will cast another one and if time permits will scratch a bit of paint off and glue them on after the fact.
The plan is to finish the facings tomorrow and the lace, hats, boots, belts etc and hopefully the horses. Part of me is looking forward to doing the horses so I've been revisiting pictures of Greys.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Are those the new moulds from Prince August ?
ReplyDeleteYes, except for the Bicorne heads.
DeleteLooking good. Always like the idea of Greys - should be painting up a unit of Scots Greys myself in a week or so - but never really confident in my ability to do them well.
ReplyDeleteOddly I've never done them before either, which is the main reason I chose them for this little venture even though they weren't wearing the famous bearskins. Greys are tricky being anywhere from almost pure white to the whole dapple thing.We'll see.
DeleteThat is a very striking red. Goes very well with the grey horses.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be toned down slightly and the horses will be darker once they are painted.
DeleteI once asked a Gamer how he paints his Horses- "I get the biggest brush I can find"....that is helpful?
ReplyDeleteOnly for naked horses Kev!
DeleteVery elegant castings Ross, I especially like the horses. I always glue carbines on my figures once painted as it's so much easier to work with, never had an issue with bonding over the paint. Look forward to see what you do with those greys, never an easy thing to do.
ReplyDeleteThe horses look a little long on the leg to me but I do like them anyway. Its going to have to be a very basic, almost naive, paint job but I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out.
DeleteNice to see these classic figures!
ReplyDeleteFairly recent release but they are well done.
DeleteGiven the era, don't think of progress as "slow": think of it as "stately."
ReplyDeleteHmm, I was thinking of slow as in I'm not quite in the mood so short painting sessions and long breaks while worrying about deadlines......
DeleteThey're really nice characterful figures - I didn't know they didn't wear their bearskins in Flanders, where is that recorded? I'd drill a hole through the carbines and into the figure to hold them on really firmly if they're going to get a lot of on-table action.
ReplyDeleteThey are going to get in a test game, maybe 2 and 2 games at the convention. Then who knows when they'll see action again.
DeleteI'm not 100% sure they didn't wear the bearskins as I have been trouble finding a definite reference or any pictures of them in Flanders, however, in the Grant's Osprey Men-At-arms on the Scots Greys the only illustration form the 1790's shows an officer in Bicorne and a trooper in bicorne from the the early 1800's and in the text he mentions that in the early 19thC they went back to wearing their bearskins after a number of years of wearing bicornes. If I'd had a suitable bearskin head I'd have gone with that in "print the legend" fashion but not having one I thought about painting them as the Royals but in the end decided that it was long past time for me to have some Greys in one scale or era at least.
Slow and steady Ross. Looking good.
ReplyDeleteYah, more the Hare sort I'm afraid but nil desperandum and all.
DeleteImposing fellows, coming along nicely.
ReplyDeleteThey're getting there!
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