Wellington & Picton at Waterloo, PLUS: Landing Parties!

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@OSHIROmodels: Thanks very much!

@ffrum: Cheers. I think enjoying painting would be nicer, but to each their own. I think it all comes down to practice, a certain cheekiness in terms of "can I get away with it if i just did it like this....?", and the constant reminder that people will shout at you if you don't finish the project after the next by the end of the month.

@Ray Rivers: Thank you! They better. I'm seriously running out of time.



Right, here's another update. Just cellphone photos, so bear with me.




Royal Welch Fusiliers drummer:



1st Foot Guards drummer:





Hope you like them! They're nearing completion, but there's still the little matter of making bases for them. Of course it looks nicer on the table without bases, but given all those oars bending and snapping in all directions it's way more sensible to have them based.

Oh, and they still need flags. And helmsmen.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Absolutely superb, love your work!   

[Ray Rivers]

Really nice work.

Don't remember... are the miniatures glued in place?

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@Mad Lord Snapcase: Thanks very much!

@Ray Rivers: I'm happy to announce that by now they are. Those boats turn out bloody heavy with all the dudes glued on too! It's an interesting kit. Boat's resin, and every other rower is cast onto the resin halves of the boat. The other half of the rowers are metal figures.

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Yo ho ho. Without tooting my horn too much, I hereby declare the world to be 2% prettier.


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No time to rest on my laurels though. Already got 40k stuff in the works for someone who needs them done 2 weeks ago pretty much. So I hope you like the boats, there'll be more pictures in the future, as always they look nicer in person than in the photos, but oh well. I do what I can. All I can say is that water looks SEXY in real life. anyway, gotta finish that Eldrad, I suppose. See ya!

[Ray Rivers]

Splendid! 

[Roo]

Lovely, lovely work.

[valleyboy]

Those are so lovely

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

Lovely work.

On a small point (but probably too late to do anything about it now), if you visit this website, you will see that the drummers' lace for Royal (but non-Guards) regiments is actually yellow, the livery colour of the House of Hanover.

http://www.fifedrum.org/crfd/BD_1.htm

(Click on the AWI bearskin and look at the 4th, 8th, 18th, 21st and 23rd Foot - I know its 25+ years before your boats, but the lace would not have changed.)

[Captain Blood]

Spanking job on the jolly roving tars 

[Warboss Nick]

Beautiful work and and the detail on the drum is just insane - lovely!

[armchairgeneral]

Fabulous painting 

It is great to see models like this being done. I suppose a lot of us would look at all the figures to paint and think, “Well that’s the equivalent of 2 - 3 battalions on the tabletop” so it would end up being a low priority.

[Keith]

Bloody marvelous. Seeing these has made my day :-)

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@Ray Rivers: cheers!:)

@Roo: Thanks!

@Valleyboy: Thank you. A unique addition to any collection, that's for sure.

@Baron von Wreckedoften: Well, crap. The gentleman I did these for usually does thorough research and always gives me printed uniform plates and lots of notes along with the figures (most welcome), but I assume he didn't find about that detail and just wrote "drummer's lace as on the Foot Guards' drummer". Now I'm torn if I should tell him or not.. Anyway, thanks for the info and I'll keep that site you linked to in mind!

@Captain Blood: Many thanks!

@Warboss Nick: Cheers, much appreciated.

@armchairgeneral: Thank you, Sir! I could imagine that's one of the reasons those were outsourced to me. It's probably the ultimate case of "would be really nice, but at the same time I could paint three more line battalions...". That being said, these will make for nice showcase figures as well, and of course I forsee a lot of naval landing scenarios (I think the gentleman plays Chosen Men) featuring these.

@Keith: Oh, that's a very nice compliment. Many thanks!

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

@Baron von Wreckedoften: Well, crap. The gentleman I did these for usually does thorough research and always gives me printed uniform plates and lots of notes along with the figures (most welcome), but I assume he didn't find about that detail and just wrote "drummer's lace as on the Foot Guards' drummer". Now I'm torn if I should tell him or not.. Anyway, thanks for the info and I'll keep that site you linked to in mind!

Actually, I may owe you an apology.  At some point post-AWI, the design of the lace might have changed.  I'm not entirely sure if or when, and I'm checking with the two main re-enactment groups - Napoleonic in the UK, AWI in the USA.  Here are the drummers of each:-

https://www.facebook.com/23rdrwf/photos/a.2894865527302598/2895328107256340/?type=3

http://www.rwfia.org/The%20Musick.htm

As you can see - a clear difference; but your customer may well be right!  I'll post back what I hear.

BvW