1/10th vive lempereur, col-burthe 4th hussars

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good so far Steve. Nice mod on the rein as well.

[scottie3158]

Steve,
Lovely work so far mate.

[Steve Brodie]

Haven't had much time recently to crack on, but I have got the rear tassels added to the horse, needed to snip off the corner points on the straps for the tassels to line up, then needed to sand away the underside of each tassel so there wasn't a 2mm ridge between the moulded strap on the horse and the tassels to be added. Also painted the tail strap (?) and added to the horse, its not quite long enough to join the tail loop and the main strap, plus the tail end is just flat and butt joins onto the loop, so decided to fair this in with some Vallejo putty. At the other end the gap was filled with more putty. Its quite a hard piece of resin and when i tried to bend it to conform to the horse body it snapped at the buckle. I was ever so gentle, just rubbing between my fingers, but snap it did. Which as it turned out was a blessing as it now sat completely flush, oh but i did need to carve and file away some of the straps on both sides to make the channel for the strap wide enough for the channel.

The putty needs sanding now, touching up and then the tassels and their straps varnishing.


Tail and head just tacked on.

[adt70hk]

That is coming on very nicely indeed. Well done.

Andrew

[Steve Brodie]

Few updates;
Tail strap fared in;



Bed roll painted and attached to the horse;



Hooves painted;




And 'greys' added to the legs;

[Neil Merryweather]

Nice job Steve

[adt70hk]

Simply brilliant. Wouldn't know where to start.

[Steve Brodie]

Simply brilliant. Wouldn't know where to start.

You would, but to be honest, when i opened the box i did think what have I done !, I have got the family to spend £120 on something i cant do, but seeing how excited my children (20 +18) were when they gave it me, knew i had to at least have a go, and as Aesop said 'Slow and steady wins the race'. So with that in mind, thats what i have done and so far seems to be working out okay.

[Steve Brodie]

Started work on his pelisse and the braiding. The braiding was/is a 3 step process; first a coat of gloss black, followed by the gold and then the pelisse areas touched in with red and any mistakes, gold reapplied. I found the best way to get the gold on was to use a Army Painter Dry brush, small one, and basically 'buff' the gold onto the raised details.



Once all done a wash or black was made and flowed into the recesses. Still a couple of bits to tidy up



Same process for the legs.

[adt70hk]

Great work Steve. Rather you than me!

[Jim R]

Hi Steve
You're making a cracking job of this. On something this big, this complex and this expensive your 'slow and steady' is the only way to go. Certainly paying dividends judging by the way it's going.
Jim

[Steve Brodie]

Great work Steve. Rather you than me!

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Hi Steve
You're making a cracking job of this. On something this big, this complex and this expensive your 'slow and steady' is the only way to go. Certainly paying dividends judging by the way it's going.
Jim

Thanks very much Jim

[Steve Brodie]

I have been quietly getting on with painting colonel burthe, got his pelisse/domain and trousers painted. Need to do his gloves and boots. All paints are from scalecolor artist tube range.

[Steve Brodie]

Glued his arms on and filled in the gaps, needs to dry for 24hrs then to be sanded. Base layer painted onto his face, eyes painted in

[Steve Brodie]

Finished his head, fear if I play with it to much more I will ruin what little skill I have been able to employ. Re-did his hair as was to blonde, added a 5'oclock shadow and glazes (red, yellow and blue). Shako next