Early Renaissance French Gendarmes, new painting 19 April

[AlyMorrison]

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

[Jeff965]

Oops nearly missed this, absolutely amazing painting matey, can't wait to see the finished unit.

[Furt]

Mind boggling amazing!! 

I can not even begin to understand the skill required to produce that.

[MaleGriffin]

Superb doesn't even begin to describe the beautiful brushwork! 

[Stuart]

Out if interest was the barding cloth over armour or just thick cloth or either / both depending on budget?

[levied troop]

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 

[Totleben]

A tableau vivant of the epoch. 

[Metternich]

Simply magnificent.

[Stuart]

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

[Stuart]

Ps do the front panel last as it overlaps the side panels.

[Stuart]

Job done 

[OSHIROmodels]

Very good 

Looking forward to seeing it splashed with colours 

cheers

James

[Stuart]

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

[Stuart]

We now have plural gendarmes !

[War In 15MM]

Really beautiful work.  Richard