Author Topic: 2nd Afghan War: UD 14/12 completed village (15 images) (Read 40809 times)

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #45 on:** July 16, 2016, 08:50:59 AM »

stunning ...

marianas_gamer · « **Reply #46 on:** July 16, 2016, 10:20:33 AM »

SI,
Everything is coming together VERY nicely! Looks great and looking forward to your future work on this project.
LB

Silent Invader · « **Reply #47 on:** July 16, 2016, 04:07:12 PM »

Thanks all

I reckon I have another 3 or 4 hobby days of GS work to do: the Afghans are really easy but the mounted 9th Lancers will take quite a bit more effort (though I've already done all the necessary research for the dismounted men and their horses).

Silent Invader · « **Reply #48 on:** July 21, 2016, 01:43:22 PM »

Some progress .... (Pre fine tuning)

The Afghan foot are mostly from ACW Perry Zouaves and Sudanese Ansar, though there are also a couple in the image from AWI Militia in hunting shirts (with the shirts becoming jackets).

Silent Invader · « **Reply #49 on:** July 24, 2016, 12:08:54 PM »

Getting closer to completing the first push of GS... Only 7 rifles and 4 swords remaining

That said, I've decided that the Afghans need some proper command and control so have ordered the parts for a further three minis to comprise mounted chief, banner and drummer with foot alternates (hmmm I'm now thinking maybe it should be 4 to include a horse holder....)

I've now added a page on force organisation to my website, which shows the make up of the various units as they'll be played with for a test of my SAG rules.

http://www.silentinvader.uk/index_w_saw_index_forces.html

Malamute · « **Reply #50 on:** July 24, 2016, 03:00:10 PM »

Brilliant, each one a completely unique figure. Fabulous (the project, not you, just to be certain this time.

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Silent Invader · « **Reply #51 on:** July 24, 2016, 08:34:44 PM »

Ta matey.

And yes, everyone is different

Captain Blood · « **Reply #52 on:** July 25, 2016, 07:21:13 AM »

Excellent greenstuffing. The turbans are extremely well done.

Silent Invader · « **Reply #53 on:** July 25, 2016, 07:29:52 PM »

Thanks Richard but they really are dead simple: just a smear, a poke and a swipe.

Any ways, 56 foot, 8 mounted and 8 loose horse have now had their first push of GS. I'm not one for doing a lot of smoothing while the putty is still soft; I much prefer to polish (ie, finely abrade, scrape) the cured surface with a very sharp scalpel. With that in mind, and as something of a project milestone, here's mini number 72, pre-polishing.

All that said, there are still 6 more minis to do, namely the Afghan Chief and Banner Bearer, mounted and also on foot with loose horses (I've decided not to bother with the drummer, as a flag is all the rules require to double his command radius).

Malamute · « **Reply #54 on:** July 26, 2016, 10:14:20 PM »

More Greenstuff goodness.

Silent Invader · « **Reply #55 on:** July 27, 2016, 04:13:45 PM »

Thanks Nick.

And finally, the Afghan Command in mounted and foot variants: chief and banner.

These were a last minute addition. The sprues arrived yesterday - 1 of the ACW Zouave Command and 1 of the 3 WotR horses - and were promptly assembled using odd parts from the bits box: eg, the chief on foot is actually a WotR body while the mounted chief uses the Luger arm from the Afika Korp set (but converted to a revolver) and binoculars from Colonial British Infantry.

The GS is pre-polish and was all done in one continuous sitting (ie, no stage-by-stage curing of putty, just simply moving from one mini straight onto the next).

EDIT: And the merit of posting images on LAF is once again proved as I just noticed I left the tail off of the mounted banner bearer's waist sash!

Malamute · « **Reply #56 on:** July 27, 2016, 05:58:43 PM »

Brilliant.

Your ability to piece these figures together from such a mishmash of different donor parts is amazing and then end result on each one is outstanding. The individuality you can create is mind boggling

Silent Invader · « **Reply #57 on:** July 27, 2016, 06:37:55 PM »

Thanks Nick

Though I just changed the first photo for one that is hopefully (hard to tell on my phone!) now in focus......

Captain Blood · « **Reply #58 on:** July 28, 2016, 10:58:54 AM »

Brilliant. That's a lot of painting to do though!

Mason · « **Reply #59 on:** July 28, 2016, 11:05:25 AM »

The machine that is Silent Invader continues on it's relentless course!

That is gonna be a lovely and completely original army when finished.
Top drawer!

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