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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Stuart on 01 November 2015, 02:38:47 PM
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Currently working on a unit but they're proving quite intricate so I'll update as I go.
Thanks for looking
Stuart
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Wow Stuart. He is fantastic. :-* :-* Is the model a Foundry or Eureka cast or have you converted him?
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Straight out of the box Foundry, I really like these sculpts, a joy to paint.
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Utterly sublime :-* :-* :-*
I hate you >:D
;)
cheers
James
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Bloody hell Stuart :o
You have excelled even your own high standards with that one. The caparison is truly brilliant :-*
Only 19 more to go ;)
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Hello,
Excellent French Gendrme !!!
Nikko
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Damn that's good, almost a shame some will be lost in the unit (you'll have to have them in congo formation!)
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Wonderful......
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Very nice - the detail is stunning. My wife asked me if I was going blind as I had my nose pressed against the screen to check out the detail.
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Amazing! :o
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OK, you can stop showing off now. ;)
Seriously Stuart, how are you going to keep this up? How many are you planning on doing?
Regards,
James
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Until my eyesight fails ! Though this did give me double vision at times. At the very least I wanted to show a French lance of 1513 which means along with the mounted archers and men at arms I've done I'll need at least 4.
This approach does mean that for every gendarme I do I'll then have to do 2 conversions as above to get the numbers right. I love making it easy for myself o_o
I've got 2 conversions on the go at present, adding barding to the Foundry horses, not too bad so far.
Stuart
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A simply stunning job there
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Keep 'em coming, so we can marvel. You are nuts, of course, but who could live life with crisps alone.
My Respects,
James
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Speechless....Ok I'm not...
The toppest, top drawer stuff, of a very very high set of draws!!!
Wonderful - waiting for more.....
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Lovely stuff Stuart ...
You do know ... When you get them on to the table they will die to a man ... Or run away in a comedy style...
All the best. Aly
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Oops nearly missed this, absolutely amazing painting matey, can't wait to see the finished unit.
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Mind boggling amazing!! :o :o :o
I can not even begin to understand the skill required to produce that.
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Superb doesn't even begin to describe the beautiful brushwork! :o :o :o
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Out if interest was the barding cloth over armour or just thick cloth or either / both depending on budget?
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There's also the option of painted armour?
Ian Heath notes that there was a shortage of English horses able to bear the weight of armour, leading to export bans (perhaps the need for export suggests other European countries had the same horse shortage issues?) which suggests that purely cloth boarding was an option.
Amazing painting on that figure, my gob is literally smacked :-*
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A tableau vivant of the epoch. :-*
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Simply magnificent.
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Steady progress on the second gendarme; here I wanted to create a half caparisoned horse, these feature fairly heavily in the Pavia tapestry.
I began by cutting and filing the basic shape of the side and frontal panels from the Italian horse armour in the Perry plastic mounted men at arms set, this was something of a shortcut to use as a base from which I could sculpt on to. You could create the same with a rough green stuff base but this was quicker.
Each side panel was sculpted in turn, then the round bosses - don't know what they're called, I assume they allow free movement of the horse's shoulders.
These were then fine tuned to get them in the right place and as identical as I could, lastly the reins were built up. Overnight drying between all stages. The final part will be the addition of tie fastenings on the front panel then it's ready for painting. As sculpts go in my meagre experience I'd rate this a fairly easy one.
Stuart
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Ps do the front panel last as it overlaps the side panels.
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Job done :D
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Very good :)
Looking forward to seeing it splashed with colours :D
cheers
James
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Here's Gendarme no. 2
The Horse was converted with the addition of a GS front caparisoned armour, the rider also was a skirted figure which I added a slashed top to.
Suns feature quite a bit in tapestries and paintings so I had a go. Each panel features a different expression. My eyes hurt.
Thanks for looking
Stuart
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We now have plural gendarmes !
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Really beautiful work. Richard
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Stunning. I almost wouldn't want to game with them. Almost.
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Work of art, Stuart. Lush :-*
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Absolutely beautiful :-*
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They are truly gorgeous :-* :-* :-*
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Wow,very very nice :)
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Oh my word!!! :-*
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Third in the series we have a rider with a rich damask pattern coat with cloth of gold and gilt armour.
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Here's a unit WIP group photo
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Simply sumptuous :-*
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So delicious!!! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Beautiful work Stuart 8)
Darrell.
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Really impressive! :-*
A very beautiful work.
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Wow
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Beautiful :o
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I am in awe :-* :-* :-* what a Great project, and your painting is so good.
Jan
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Your work is outstanding! A great pleasure to watch such gigantic work. Please, more of it.
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Oooh ! Lovely :-*
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Art! :o
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Number 4. Knight in gilt edged Maximilian armour with a painted cross of St. Denis on his breastplate.
He almost seems dull against his more colourful compatriots :P
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Gosh :o :-*
Love them.
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They look brilliant together. Can't wait for you to base them and let them bask in all their glory.
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Stunning! :-*
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Really lovely :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
And very inspiring!! ;) :)
Darrell.
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Beautiful and meticulous work as always, Stuart. They look as though they've ridden straight out of a contemporary illustration.
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These are superb 8) :-* 8) :-* 8) :-* 8) :-* lol
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This project just keeps getting better and better
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The more I look at the beautiful piccies Stuart, the more I want to paint some that I've had primed and undercoated for a few years!!
Hastings (and Haggis!) first though..... but a few wouldn't hurt surely? :)
Darrell.
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Fantastic work!! :-* :-*
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I'm Currently working on another geometric caparison pattern and thought I'd share this WIP to hopefully illustrate the method I use.
I prepare the base colour then apply the brown dots in rows, this way, if one is out of line you can just overpaint and start again having not lost too much time and effort. Each dot then centres the motif in the grid, in this instance I'm using stylised stars but I'd do the same if they were fleur de lys or whatever.
The other thing to add is to paint the area as a whole rather than each bit of attached caparison, it looks better and replicates what tended to be done; an overall design in component parts.
Finally, keep the rows straight rather than bending them around the contours, this ensures the geometrical look.
More soon hopefully
Stuart
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Really nice Stuart ....
How many more ?
......100...... :D
All the best. Aly
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Nice to see how the "magic" is created, more please :-*
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Thnaks for sharing your trade secrets. Nice to know how to do it even though I don't have the skill to replicate it.
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AMAZING
Really nice Stuart ....
How many more ?
......100...... :D
All the best. Aly
Damn if that's true you'll deserve a medal... and need an eye test!
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Beautiful stuff
More tutorials please
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Fifth in the series is a return to geometric pattern as shown earlier. I toyed with having the knight's skirt in the same design but thought the plain colour would better emphasise the Maximilian armour and caparison. That and painting stars was losing its appeal !
I also tried a new trick with the plumes; the odd thread of bright orange seems to give them a bit more body and life.
More to come, I'm going to stick at it until I get distracted. No flags quite yet though they will come.
Stuart
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I think that expresses my feeling nicely :)
Darrell.
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Slightly better light
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My feeling? With all that lovely converting and painting, I'm just glad you've showed off these five so that they can't be entered in the LPL for those thinking of entering!
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These are just fantastic - some of the best minis I've ever seen.
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Those are wonderful.
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Amazing how you can so capture the period in just 28mm scale. Simply marvelous.
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Awesome work. Really excellent.
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Just amazing work!
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These are provoking an uncomfortable feeling that I may need to redo my own renaissance gensd'armes....
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Simply put, I am in awe. They look like something right out of a renaissance tapestry.
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Thanks all
I'm in a bit of an artist block at the moment but hopefully more soon
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Daaaahling, it happens to all of us from time to time ;)
I find painting something totally different from what I've been working on can help recover the mojo... (So in your case, this might be a dangerous departure to the 1540's or the 1480's :D)
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1512 or 1514 lol
Thanks Richard
Decorating is to blame, painting gloss is what I imagine purgatory to be like
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Bit of a hiatus since the last post, here's the latest addition, a vision in damask !
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Detail image
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Bloody hell Stuart that's rather good, not difficult to see what you have doing :)
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Great detail there! :-*
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Pure art. That level of detailing on the caparison and skirts is simply the best I've seen.
Stuart, you are a madman. You will go blind and must be using a one-hair brush. Unbelievably good.
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I second the comments of the good Captain B.... splendorous!!
Simon.
But... you have 3 Agincourt chappies to do, don't you know... ;)
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Jeepers ... words fail me at this point in the thread ...
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Amazing
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Outstanding! I have never seen such detailed painting in 28mm. :o
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That is just beyond superlatives, cannot imagine how long it took to paint.
Looking forward to more of the same please.
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More stellar work Stuart,love him,can I ask,is this a bog standard casting or did you make any changes to the mini before the painting process ? :)
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Straight out of the box in this instance. While I've been painting these I was trying to remember your definition of French Gendarmes, what was it?
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Lol. Was it "an uncontrolled advance,looking for somewhere to happen !" :)
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:-* :-* :-* :-* BUFFFFF AMAZING WORK!!! what miniatures are this ones?
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Wargames Foundry. A little dated in some respects but still the best of what's available IMO
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Bloody lovely as always mate, I didn't think you'd manage to top the last lot but I was wrong. Now do another hundered by the end of the month please :D
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Looking at it again, I do think the painting is just amazing. Out of interest, have you any idea how long it took you to paint this? I don't have the skill to do anything like this but, even if I did, I don't have the eyesight anyway.
As an aside, I used to be quite interested in model railways. I collected models in scale 4mm to the foot. Quite a few well-known modellers started in that scale but have had to change to scale 7mm to the foot as they got older because their eyesight deteriorated and they could no longer manage in the smaller scale.
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About 5hrs on the horse and 3 on the rider. Damask is less time consuming than the geometric designs.
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I'm not surprised at the amount of time taken. You should be very proud of the result. A truly amazing piece of work.
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Damask is less time consuming than the geometric designs.
That's a thing I never expected to hear on a miniatures wargaming forum lol
Stuart, you are a blinking genius.
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Well you are a bit crazy, aren't you? Perhaps that comes with the talent.
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Aaargh! Magnificent.
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Stuart you are obsessed !! (but brilliant).
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Magnificent Stuart :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Attention to detail is sublime as is the painting :)
Darrell.
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Job done
Lots more on my blog post;
http://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/early-renaissance-french-lance.html?m=1 (http://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/early-renaissance-french-lance.html?m=1)
I'll do more in future and carry on this thread
Thanks for the encouragement
Stuart
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Oh my gawd, those are some lovely photos!
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That is possibly the most beautiful miniatures unit I have ever seen. Thank you.