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Ratch · Posted: Wed 21 Oct 2009 10:55 am Post subject: Ratch's 54mm Napoleonic build

My butchery will appear here

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Beaufighter · Posted: Sat 31 Oct 2009 22:09 pm Post subject:

So what'll it be boss?
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Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 09:45 am Post subject:

I found a picture of Scots Greys and Highlanders fighting the French 45th Line supported by some Cuirassiers (6th or 9th, not sure - more research required). I have four Scots Greys, four Cuirassiers, three Highlanders and two French Line Infantrymen. Some of these are untouched and will appear here, others are second hand, so I'll deal with them in the restoration section

I'm currently hoping to make a small diorama and have been swapping the horses around trying to avoid duplication Nailbiting

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Heinkel51 · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 11:07 am Post subject:

Sounds great. I'll follow with eager anticipation.

Beaufighter · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

Travers' brigade of cuirassiers is the one usually said to have supported that attack.

If it were a whole division, presumably the one Travers was part of, then it would have been the 13th Cavalry Division. This comprised the 1st, 4th, 7th and 12th cuirassiers.

The 6th and 9th were part of Delort's 14th division along with the 5th and 10th cuirassiers.

Regimental facing colours:

1st - red
4th - light orange
5th - light orange
6th - light orange
7th - yellow
9th - yellow
10th - pink
12th - pink

What a well-dressed lot.
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Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 11:20 am Post subject:

Thanks Phil Cheers!

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 15:44 pm Post subject:

Checking out my Cuirassiers, three are virgin plastic and one will have to be done as a restoration

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 16:42 pm Post subject:

Likewise, two of the Scots Greys will be restorations

All three Highlanders and four (I found two more) French Line are new plastic

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 19:13 pm Post subject:

I will be tackling these

I've done a bit of horse-trading

Here are the French Cuirassier's mounts, primed in Hu: 98 Matt Chocolate

And these are the Scots Greys' horses primed with Hu: 34 Matt White

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Heinkel51 · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 22:30 pm Post subject:

I'm still awed by the scale of your project

. What technique for painting the the grey's?

Ratch · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 22:44 pm Post subject:

I'll be trying to emulate the dapple with oil paints Nailbiting

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Heinkel51 · Posted: Mon 02 Nov 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

I salute you, I considered the oils path up until in the reading I got to the part about letting the paint dry for six days.

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 02 Nov 2009 21:17 pm Post subject:

The butchery has begun

For my first attemt(s), something not too adventurous

But it just adds a bit of variation

Then its out with the oils Nailbiting

The Cuirassiers will be of the 1em Squadron

Were all the mounts of the 2nd North British Dragoons greys

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Beaufighter · Posted: Mon 02 Nov 2009 21:56 pm Post subject:

Ratch, you da man! I have always wanted to hack horses up pantomime style like that, but I never had the nerve!

Yes, all Scots Greys horses were grey, but among horsey folk, "grey" covers a range of shades from light grey to white. Greys also get whiter as they age, as do we :-)

IIRC there is quite a good wiki article about horse colours.

Top marks for the senior squadron. If you get bored with black horses, a few white socks, stars and blazes are OK, the French were shorter of horses than the British and had to let the odd non-standard nag slip through...!

My carabinier horse will have one white sock at least because I taped it to a stick by one leg to be sprayed...
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Heinkel51 · Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2009 11:17 am Post subject:

Top effort !

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Thu 05 Nov 2009 22:54 pm Post subject:

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/22392713/377186470.jpg

The Horror.....It's like 'Apocalypse Now' with plastic horses!

Great work mate.....Really looking forward to seeing these progress.

All the best
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Ratch · Posted: Thu 05 Nov 2009 23:24 pm Post subject:

Still waiting for the paint to dry :twiddling thumbs emoticon:
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T16S · Posted: Fri 06 Nov 2009 23:55 pm Post subject:

Gee up Ratch!

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MacTeagle · Posted: Sat 07 Nov 2009 01:30 am Post subject:

It's like the Grand National on your workbench!

I'm looking forward to seeing how it all works out.
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