1/12 Airfix Imperial Guard Grenadier

[scottie3158]

Neil,
Lovely work mate.

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil,
Lovely work mate.

thanks Buddy
See, I TOLD you there would be PE!

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Neil, nice upgrades...

[Guest]

Oh yes! - this is epic Neil. You're doing a great job.

I did actually buy a 1/12 academy bust so that I could replace the head on this. It's the one I used on the recent samurai bust.

[Richard48]

Oh very nicely done.The rabble have assembled for this.
Rich.

[SimonT]

Excellent. Off to a good start Neil

I have the 54mm version in the stash but only made the Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn 1:12 figures years ago for my mum - they had an appalling fit and the detail was not very detailed

[Jason Crausby]

Ohh... I can tell already this is going to be good!

[Neil Merryweather]

Oh yes! - this is epic Neil. You're doing a great job.

I did actually buy a 1/12 academy bust so that I could replace the head on this. It's the one I used on the recent samurai bust.

Thanks Peter.
That young man was FAR too handsome! I'm going to see if I can make him look more like a grizzled old veteran

[Neil Merryweather]

Excellent. Off to a good start Neil

I have the 54mm version in the stash but only made the Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn 1:12 figures years ago for my mum - they had an appalling fit and the detail was not very detailed

Thanks Simon
I think I still have mine, somewhere.
I didn't know any better - in those days I just threw them together and piled on the Humbrol!

[Neil Merryweather]

Ohh... I can tell already this is going to be good!

thanks Jason

[Neil Merryweather]

Today I started to marry up the legs with the torso and again we pay the price of 54mm engineering enlarged three times.

The original has a butt joint at the edge of the waistcoat which is fine at the small scale, but there are great yawning gaps at the larger scale.

I carved into the edge of the waistcoat to sharpen the edge but it wasn’t enough

I put them together and this exposed another fit issue.


His hips are too narrow. The tails of the coat should be sitting on them and they should be the same width as the bottom of the waistcoat.

So, having ascertained that I need to address this area, I started to think about improving the pose. I have always felt this was a rather passive pose, and then I discovered the painting it is based on and I find that the original is a little more dynamic .

It’s On The Evening of the Battle of Waterloo by Ernest Crofts

So I decided to alter the arms as well

Out came the saw- I just couldn’t help myself !

I set the torso slightly further back and more upright, and bent both arms. I will have some work to do on the hands now, but I was considering that anyway.

Time to break out the Milliput

Thanks for looking in

Neil

[Guest]

Great butchery Neil. Glad to see you're getting stuck in.

[Neil Merryweather]

Great butchery Neil. Glad to see you're getting stuck in.

thanks Peter
very enjoyable,so far

[SimonT]

Parts fit looks about as good as I remember on the two I made

[rtfoe]

Does this help?
Here he is with his 54mm ancestor
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the squares on the cutting mat are 10mm

Most busts are around 1/9 or 1/10 scale, although some are 1/12. so if he was a bust he would be a bit smaller than most .

My goodness, he is huge. Hope you can knock out some starch from this plastic figure with a natural pose Neil which I'm sure you will. Already the little details added and them buttons is a good start.

Cheers,
Richard