Last of the Mohicans

[Darkoath]

Found some on ebay using the part number you listed!   Thank you!

I could look at your photographs all day!

Frank can you tell us the paints you used for your Indian flesh?

Darkoath

[Ignatieff]

Oh, and I promise last question, the Indian Longhouses in the background - who are they by?

[Kralsaa]

Arf...

After this...I can died !!!!!!!!!

Franck i'm curious of your painting's style...could you tell us more...what sort of paints, painting methods...we want to know all about your works !

Thanks for all and continue to make me dream.

[Parriah]

Are those Waterloo models based on the newer research, or the old scholarship?

I can't remember the author right now, but I have it at home and will return with his name soon.

Now, there has been a new look taken at the accounts of Waterloo.

The older model, in London I believe, was made by a man in living memory of the events. He solicited funding from officers who were there. He interviewed no French or Prussians. He ran out of funds and sought more from the Britts who had already subscribed.

It has been determined, from reading after action reports, recordings of interviews with French, Polish and Prussian sources that several units on the old model were in the wrong place, at the wrong time or not in as depleted numbers as was the true case.
This new research has sought to update the misconceptions created by the model, and its creator's research(stilted in the favor of his heaviest contributors) which had gone unquestioned for more than a century.
We call this kind of work a corrective.
As I said, when next I return, I'll have the name of the author, his work, the publishing information and anything else I can remember to get.

Later fellow Pb heads!

BTW, the models looked fabulous! 

[Ignatieff]

quite shit.

I like your style Plynkes,  Elegantly put!

[fergal]

Are those Waterloo models based on the newer research, or the old scholarship?

Steady on, this is a thread to appreciate some bloody beautiful artwork. 

[Frank]

@Parriah
Neither the first diorama was very accurate, nor were the miniatures. But we improved the things with the next dioramas. I also read a lot of books about Waterloo. Good ones were from Peter Hofschröer and Mark Adkin. But now back to the French-and-Indian-War…

@Ignatieff
This long grass is produced by HEKI. It comes in mats of different sizes. On the back the mats are keeping together by synthetic fibre. You can lay these mats on gaming board to create different terrain areas. You can also stretch the mat to form different shapes are produce dense are more open grassland. I will try to make some photos at the weekend. Here is a picture form the net:



I bought these longhouses at a Salute Bring & Buy…but can’t remember or find out who made them. Sorry!

@Darkoath
The basic colour is a mix of Dwarf Flesh (Vallejo Game Color) and Red Leather (Vallejo Model Color) + GW Wash Devaln Mud + Highlight with basic colour mixed with Dark Sand (Vallejo Model Color).

@Kralsaa
Thank you! I think there are a lot of better painters here in the forum. But I will try to make a short tutorial within the next week.

[Lowtardog]

The longhouses look a bit like Grand Manner ones to me

[Ignatieff]

Frank

Thank you - tremendous!

Anyone know where you can get Heki products in the UK? eBay and amazon didnt throw anything up.

Steve

[Aaron]

This seems to be a good place for Heki stuff in North America: http://www.eurorailhobbies.com/erh_list.asp?offset=0&ca=25&mn=13

I also found a place for Australia: http://www.barcourt.com/heki.htm

and Germany: http://www.heki-kittler.de/

Oddly enough a cursory scan didn't turn up anything in the UK. Maybe Antenociti's Workshop could be convinced to stock it?

[Ignatieff]

Aaron

That's not a bad idea at all.  Ged?...

Steve

[Ignatieff]

Just can't stop looking at this stuff - Frank it is genius.

So! Yes another questions.  The shot of the Indians shooting from the log piles: what kind of wood di you use for the logs?  The grain comes out in them very well.

Thanks again

Steve

[Arthur]

I like your style Plynkes,  Elegantly put!

Would have gone for quite shite meself, as the alliterated diphthong does add a certain resonance to the assertion  

[Ignatieff]

Would have gone for quite shite meself, as the alliterated diphthong does add a certain resonance to the assertion  

It's also the preferred version of we Scots...

[Frank]

Hi Steve,
These logs are part of a set with different wood piles , which I have bought some 8 years ago. You can still find this set at Fuhrmann-Figuren (a german trader for 1/72 miniatures):

http://www.fuhrmann-figuren-shop.de/epages/15505724.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15505724/Products/%22KF%2093080-14%22

...but I am sure you can make them easly with some ordinary toothpiccks