54mm Charge of the Scots Greys

[KarlW]

Looking excellent!
Should the turn backs on his coat tails be yellow? I am just guessing and haven’t checked it out.
Andy

I was recently corrected on this, originally collars cuffs and turnbacks were the lining, but as time passed they become tailored on, probably before the Rebellion in the colonies. So only the collars and cuffs should be in facing colours, turnbacks were more commanly white piped in the facing colour.

[Neil Merryweather]

Thanks very much Rick, Andy & Karl :thumb2:
I did originally paint the turnbacks yellow, then I checked the references and found them to be white.
I failed to find any definitive information on the style of pocket lacing because it's always obscured by the equipment in illustrations,(possibly because no-one knows?),so I just left the original in situ and painted bars over the bastion detail.
I 'm glad I at least did something because it turns out it's NOT covered by the equipment......

[KarlW]

According to my "bible" it's square lace not Bastion for the 92nd, but I'll not tell.

[Neil Merryweather]

According to my "bible" it's square lace not Bastion for the 92nd, but I'll not tell.

I painted them square
but thanks
shhhhh!

[Steve Jones]

Brilliant work Neil. Liking this figure a lot. Great stuff

[JR]

Can't see anything not to like Neil, that painting on the kilt gives real movement.

[Mini Me]

If you are seeing "movement" under that kilt JR you're too close!!!:tongue-out3::tongue-out::tongue-out2: Rick H.

[Neil Merryweather]

Brilliant work Neil. Liking this figure a lot. Great stuff

Thanks a lot, Steve

Can't see anything not to like Neil, that painting on the kilt gives real movement.

That's very kind, John

[rtfoe]

Paint work has come along very nicely, Neil. I'm sure you can continue breathing now. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[Neil Merryweather]

Paint work has come along very nicely, Neil. I'm sure you can continue breathing now. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

You've hit the nail on the head there, Richard! That's kind of how I feel now.
cheers
N

[Neil Merryweather]

Well I needed a break after that tartan, but I didn’t expect it to be 7 months!
I haven't been posting lately due to work and life, and I wasn't really going to bother blogging this part, but I decided to in the end. I'm still quite busy with work so who knows when the next installment will be, but here goes. I DO want to get the damn thing finished, though!
Part of the reason for the delay was uncertainty about the base. I want to protect it from household dust (I don’t have a cabinet- yet…), so I was looking for a suitable receptacle. I finally found a glass dome on Amazonia for a sensible price, so that was a step nearer completion.

I didn't like the nasty wooden cheeseboard type of pedestal, so the first thing I did was to create and 3D print a better one in a nice shiny black plastic. I thought I had taken a pic of it before working on it, but I can’t have done, so here’s an image of the file

Waterloo took place in fields of rye after a night of very heavy rain, and I learnt how to do rye from the Stan Catchpol Bible when I did my Imperial Guardsman a while back, so I won’t go into it again here. Briefly, it is made from raffia and bristles, with fine sand for the seed heads.

I have been making stock of it on and off since July.

I have refined Stan’s technique a bit. If you’re interested you can find it HERE
I also confirmed that it would definitely be green, as per these re-enactors at a Waterloo anniversary

The next step was to create a ploughed earth effect using Sculptamold. I mixed it with brown acrylic to avoid the white showing through. I wanted to show puddles so I took the furrows right down to the flat base. I’ve been walking a lot in the local woods during lockdown and lately it’s been incredibly muddy, so I have made good use of my time and researched mud in great depth…. I was surprised to find that there can be many different colours close together and the water is a different colour again! I also realised I would need hoof prints and lots of them, so I made a little hoof stamp with a horse shoe and pressed it all over the place randomly. These would also become puddles. I painted the puddles with a much lighter shade ink and made the water from successive applications of Klear. There are probably better products out there, but I got impatient and Klear is what I have to hand. I kept the rest of the mud slightly less glossy by using a brown ink wash.

As I wasn’t planning to blog this I didn’t take any WIP shots, but here it is ready for the trampled rye.


This is as far as I have got.
Thanks for following

Neil

[Tim Marlow]

Looks great Neil. You’ve captured the greenish tinge of very wet mud very nicely indeed.

[papa 695]

Cracking work Neil, really liking the rye ( ready for the base ) and the hoof prints in the wet mud.

[rtfoe]

Very nice and soggy Neil :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Neil
Glad this is back. The base is looking superb. Love the rye.
Jim