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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Battle Brush Sigur on February 08, 2019, 01:16:53 AM
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Currently I'm working on something new entirely - figures for the Grenadier Guards of the Guard Camel Regiment from 1885!
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2019_02/wip1.jpg.91abbb2ea9bb4ff39144d11e062e137f.jpg)
...with an utterly unfitting backdrop. :D But my photo table is currently made up like that and this is just a WIP shot.
28mm Perry miniatures. Until I started working on these I knew NOTHING about the Mahdist Uprising. Now I know a tiny little bit, and quite a bit about Grenadier Guards of the Guard Camel Regiment's uniforms. :D 8 camel-mounted dudes (the flag bearer preferred to stay back on the painting desk), and 4 more camels at the rest. In the future I'll also add a bunch of dismounted dudes.
Hope you like them so far!
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They look...........magnificent!!
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You can't go wrong with camels. :-*
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They’re stunning! Bravo!
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Superb 8)
With that backdrop there’s no reason you couldn’t use them as Imperial Guard :D
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Magnificent! They are lovely. :-*
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A great paintjob! So neat painting! The colors pop!
Cheers!
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Yes, great looking paint jobs. And do I see MAV (modeler added value)? It looks like you added the halter ropes, yes - no? If yes, very nice job and like the officer's variation.
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@Poiter50: Thanks very much! :)
@Totleben: Well, I'm not sure that's true 100% of times, but they sure make for a great variation. However, if people complain about painting horses from now on I'll discreetly point them towards bloody camels. :D
@RichBliss: Thanks, very kind of you.
@DintheDin: Yeah, I'm considering toning down the red a little. But then maybe I won't. :D
@FifteensAway: Thanks, Sir. You give me a bit too much credit there I'm afraid. I just painted the reins on the models to look like ropes, because I've seen those being used in reference photos (including the officer variant being striped like that). In fact I think these are supposed to be ropes, as there's a big old knot sculpted underneath the camels' heads. Very pleased with the look tough, and I'm glad I put the extra time in instead of just painting them as reins in a nondescript dark brown colour. Somehow rough-spun ropes fit camelry better too. Makes them look proper different to horse-mounted troops and underlines the generally rougher, less elegant, more wobbly impression camel-mounted warfare has to me. :)
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they look excellent sir !
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@Eric the Shed: Thanks very much, Sir!
Okay, it's time to finish those by adding rank insignia and all of that.
I'm aware of each of the guys wearing the Batallion number and Regimental name on their right sleeve, in the case of this 1st Bt. of the Grenadier Guards it's the
.1.
GG
in a dark red. ["." used for spacing ;-) ]
For the officer (the guy leaning on one arm to turn to the side) I saw a variant showing the Bt./Rgt. letters plus a single red, v-shaped bar (I'm sure that there's a much more proper name for that in uniformology, but I forgot the term. :D It's "Balken" in German.)
For the NCO (the guy raising his right hand), I got a note from the gentleman I'm painting these for which tells me to paint three golden/ochre bars outlined by red on his right arm. Which sounds a bit much for an NCO given that the officer got a single bar in red?
Also - what about the ensign? Does he get anything beyond the "1 GG"?
Can anyone of you help me out with this? Thanks in advance!
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Simply, simply loveleh. ;D
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Really impressive stuff! Thank you for sharing
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Very well done indeed! I'd love a peek at your Mahdists once you get around to them...
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If I may come back to those ropes for a moment - are they loosely connected except at the chin knot? I ask because I studied the photo closely before my previous post and part of why I thought they were added was they were almost all in a different position. Or are there that many variants of the sculpts with the ropes so positioned?!
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@Volleyfire!: Well, there's nothing else I wanna hear. :D Thanks very much!
@Sparrow: Thank you for looking and commenting! I'm really happy about all the positive feedback I get for these pretty niche models.
@Arundel: I'd love to do Mahdists as well. For now it's just these chaps and the extra camels, and later on about 20 dismounted Guards Grenadiers.
@FifteensAway: There's a nice variety in the sculpts. I think there are five different camels across these sets (plus resting ones, but I think those are mostly the same as the standing ones with different legs sculpted on). In photo above the two rightmost camels are the same sculpt. Seems like I was lazy and didn't notice when taking the photo. :D On those two it should be most appearant how the ropes are in the same positions. Here they are on the Perrys' online store: https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_35_49&products_id=2402 (https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_35_49&products_id=2402). Come to think of it, I did add a little bit: on two of the guys (one pictured and the ensign who had dodged the photo session) I added white pieces of cloth they wear underneath the helmet for protection against the sun using Green Stuff.
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Those are beautiful!
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"Tommy Atkins, mounted on Too Late by Verbosity." Lovely job, sir!
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@ragbones: Thanks very much!
@Traveler Man: :D Cheers!
Roight, I finally have finished photos of the chaps:
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2019_02/don3.jpg.064b95ff120419d38491f2b0ba446dfa.jpg)
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2019_02/done2.jpg.05544f587efed78677b97b644857715c.jpg)
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2019_02/done4.jpg.a8318fe9593f14fb85680bc5d6266632.jpg)
Hope you like them! I'm not entirely sure when I can follow up with the dismounted chaps, but I was told I was allowed to do them some time in the future. :D
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Absolutely fantastic.
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So neat painting! Splendid :-*
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Well those are jolly nice, well done sir!!
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Stunning brushwork 👍
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They look fantastic!
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Beautiful painting, inspirational work :-*