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Old Collingwood
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Thank you kindly for those kind words, it just having a steady hand - a good magnifyer and small paint brushes, and practice as the more you do and get a feeling for how they go - they do improve. OC. -
I have finished my 55th Ligne Voltigeur. And another group photoshoot. OC.
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I havn't found much reading about that online - Just the battle partculars, even the kit makers seem to all fall into the same category of throwing in the packs, would help if they made the torso's complete without the cut outs in the back for the packs and the flat detail less backs wont help trying to keep stuff off thier backs. OC.
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Thanks Ken. OC.
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Thease are the colour plates I have been working off - they are not mine but off an excellent artist who designed them (they are accurate I understand) OC.
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And if you was like me - covering the whole living room floor with them - ok till mum wants to go into the kitchen and walks over them😭 "mum I was winning that battle"...... OC.
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Welcome Kevin, nice having you along, takes me back to when I was a kid with those Airfix Waterloo sets and box's of terrible soft plastic 1/72 soldiers. OC.
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Thank you for that Edward, I have to put the back packs on as there is a huge cut out in thier backs for the packs, also the backs of them are flatened for the pack so it would be a lot of work to rectify. OC.
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Evening all, more progress this time the 55th Ligne Voltigeurs (the Third section of the 55th Regimant) It's painted minus the back pack that I need to work on. OC.
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A company do an excellent MDF kit of the farm - you put it together and paint it yourself then add what ever scenary you want. OC.
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Thanks Ken. OC.
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No mate, I have to see what santa brings - depends if I have been a good boy, I am getting cheap sets (a few at a time) of figures each week - its a cheap way of doing it that way, for the price of a coffee I can get a sprue with a couple of figures. OC.
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This is my ground plan showing the farm complex in the middle - the road in the front and the space I have at each end and in front for my figures. OC,
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Thanks Mark, also on the small space I have available ( I measured the unit it will sit on in a case) is 36inches x 18inches, the farm building after being cut down will be 25 x 14inches, but I will have both sides seperate by the building. So - on the inside of the farm and on its roofs will be the KGL units both Light and Line regimants with a combination of rifles and muskets, on the front eadge (about 4inches wide) will be the attacking French including the Four Cuirassiers, and slightly to the Right will be a handful of 95th (Sharpes men) and further to the Left inside the Orchard will be some more French troops. There should just be enough (with a tight sqeeze) to fit about 100 figures. This is the amount of trimming I will need to do - it wont be too bad as I will leave a false wall at the back that would represent the rear cattle sheds. OC.
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Great work, also nice to see so amny new faces on here. OC.
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And a group shot of the Four built/painted so far. OC.
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A 55th Ligne Grenadier. OC.
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Next we have the 55th Ligne Fusilier 2 nd company. OC.
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A bit more progress today following a lot of research and internet reading - then more reading, to find out what actual sections of what units where involved in the attack on La Haye Sainte. What I have found out is the main (first) attack on the farm by the French was by 54 and 55 Ligne (line regimant) these regimants consisted of Fusiliers (in Four groups - 1/2/3 and 4 and the different ranks within, then there was the Grenadiers again falling into different ranks, also there was the Voltigeurs again in different ranks of coomand. Following these up were the Two squadrons of Cuirassiers 1 and 2 company. So here is the second finished Cuirassier -
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Thank you kindly Patrick. OC.
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Really nice Denis. OC.
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Thank you Denis, I think the key is adding washes in gentle stages, with white add light grey washes, then a dirty colour wash that sets into the shadows, followed with a tiny bit of highlighting say with white dry brushing. OC.
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Thank you so much for the kind words Denis, Im glad she has come together and not looked too bad. OC.
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Thinking about how these figures must look a bit repetative but I can tell you - so much work goes into each one, firstly by attaching the arms/heads weapons etc, then they need a bit of a clean up to remove the mold seams, then after priming with a flat coat and drying, they then need all the various shades of paint followed by the re touch ups where my fine brush has strayed. And dont foreget the size of them - just 28mm tall making a strap for example needing the finest brush I own a minus 10 size with what looks like just a single hair. Think its going to take a bout a year to make all the figures........ OC.
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