Kenneth ONeill Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Well, I'm seeing "Black Watch" tartan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 Nice work. Good to see these 54mm figures being built 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Well, this is it, I do not care to think how long I have been dooing Airfix, but I have finally finished all the Airifix 54mm Napoleonics. My final figure is the 10th Hussar, I had to do some work in the shako as the 10th did not have the busby at Waterloo, but all my resources differred sligthly on what the crest and badge was like. So people will probably have some other reference material that will differ, but here it is for better of worse./media/tinymce_upload/7791a0def2f9488ad57f63ad718a731c.gif The shako was from a French Line Infantry kit, not a bad fit, with a bit fo filler. I had the usual trouble getting the rider to sit! He is riding high in the stirrups, as it all goes together well for the dry run, but when filled and painted the saddle and rider tend to alter and getting them on the horse is fun./media/tinymce_upload/345d6b116cb8c9ee8740fedae7d8c5c1.gifHaving just seen the image close up, i might need to do a bit of a paint clean up on the top of the shako, make it cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Well here they all are in their glory, not bad looking kits considering over 30 years old!/media/tinymce_upload/95ee39a3639b741b24d531f0bff83321.gif/media/tinymce_upload/8810def4ba22a5ff9448c2c71f505498.gif/media/tinymce_upload/ef99274c0e8014fa5492ae8e76fa112d.gifNow to start some converstions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 FOr my latest model, I converted a 95th Rifleman to a soldier of the flank companies of the 2Bn KGL. the 2nd Bn KGL under Maj Baring were famously in involved in the defence of La Haye Sainte at Waterloo. Only departing the farmhouse when they had run out of ammunition.It was a relatively simple conversion, I need to shorten the jacket, removing the tails, and the rest was the shako, removing the braid and making a pomp pomp type tuft on the top. The rest was paint and green cotton./media/tinymce_upload/962fef209b8ebf40cee12650880a59b3.gif /media/tinymce_upload/6428a5b351e19a98479eb4f5f5a9523d.gif I now have some Historex models to get on with, but if anyone has a historex horse to spare.... Airfix horses seem to be a smidge larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabhand Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I can remember buying these when they first appeared. One or two of my friends did the 'metal' figures which were pricey and as I recall needed some soldering to fit them together.The Airfix range was relatively cheap, challenging but 'doable', with the plastic card belts and strapping always 'fun' to do. And the finished result was attractive enough for my mum to place them into the 'china cabinet' for display!The Polish Lancer was a great model to do and to put on show. And the British 95th Rifleman was a very nice figure and being in green and having a rifle stood out among my other Napoleonic figures.I wonder if kids of the age I was then (10-11) would bother to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truebrit71 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 I absolutely LOVED building those as a teenager. I really do wish Airfix would re-release them. I'd buy them all!! I am currently hoarding as many napoleonic Historex 54mm figures as I can afford... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Well, managed to complete another 54mm figure, this time a conversion of a Coldstream Guard - Conversion in the loosest of meanings. It was just a paint job and finding some spare parts for the epaulettes and different arms. It is meant to represent the 30 Regt of Foot (Cambridgeshire)./media/tinymce_upload/4658d0c785bafd7c648a633197c6ee05.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth ONeill Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Nice build Grouchy. As to "conversion", this was the period when "uniforms" started to come to mean something, so of course the uniforms mainly vary in insignia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 Good job. They're not epaulettes but simple shoulder straps with white worsted tufts at the outer ends. He is a man from the Centre companies. Dull yellow facings, a wide blue stripe lace, officers had silver lace. Shakos had a brass front plate. Plume and cockade on top left, cords crossed the front with two tassels on the right.Grenadiers had all white plumes and, in addition to the shoulder straps, had red wings decorated and edged with white lace and fringed in white worsted tufts. The light companies had green shako tufts and wings as for grenadiers. In general, belts were white. The canvas pack was often painted in the regimental facing colour. Black cartridge pouch. White haversack. Blue round wooden canteen. Grey trousers.Drummers and fifers wore coats of the reversed colours and had lace decoration to facings and to sleeve arms and back seams of the jacket. Their sleeves were covered with five, lace chevrons, point up. Drummers and fifers whose facing colour was red or black wore white coats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 After along break doing other models, now back with 54mm Napoleonics.My latest is a trooper of the Horse Guards, a Life Guard kit with a different paint job. However, I did try to use another horse, from the Polish Lancer kit, however, despite what Airfix said back then, they are not interchangeable, so after may attempts, alot of sanding and other modifications to the sadle cloth and the riders legs, it would still not sit correctly on the new horse. So back to the original horse, however, some of the modifications I had made also impacted on the Horuse Guards posture on the horse! Anyway, enjoy./media/tinymce_upload/7efa4e2809815d8b90f0b238408ab28f.gif/media/tinymce_upload/6313215c2b6ed4f5e24cbb764fe58b90.gifAnd for comparision with the Life Guard, one I did about a year ago./media/tinymce_upload/7e7d0a5c9484f891a5095aeae4d5dfb1.gif/media/tinymce_upload/7ec915ca7aa848cab02edb0a0c0ec42e.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 Sometimes the change in horses works better with some figures than others. I've also cut horses into pieces and reassembled them mixed up - makes for different poses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I have now completed a conversion of the Polish Lancer, to a Red Lancer or two, having found enough pieces to complete two. So I was ablel to make one in campaign dress and another in full dress./media/tinymce_upload/c32940f9cb35b8c8ad3d56c063e9a850.gifAs you can see, I have covered the lancer cap (czapska) in a rough and ready weather proof covering. The Polish style jacket (Kurtka) was also altered to show it hastened right over left (other ranks, officers it was left over right). The carbine was on the left side, as many foudn that attached to the sling on the rigth it interferred with the lance. The trousers were the blue coveralls with the 18 buttons down the leg. As a result of the position of the carbine the belt with the carbine sling on was discared. The penent on the lance is also covered with a weather proof cover./media/tinymce_upload/52da9c64fc642ceee53c9eb4f32d9b92.gifFor the red lancer in dress unifrom, it is more or less the same as the Polish lancer from the box./media/tinymce_upload/d69b796f6e183c2c43d657288974939f.gifAll epaulette on the right shouler was yellow wool with a dark blue crescent, aslo yellow wool was theyellow shoulder cords on the left shoulder with extended to the aiguillettes (and also on the lancer cap). The tousers with red with a thick blue strip (which had red piping down the centre, no buttons, something that did not come out when painting). This example has the carbine on the sling attached to the cross belt, and as he was not in the first two ranks, he is armed with only his sabre and not a lance./media/tinymce_upload/0087f1cc3f6ee8d9e3c5a5d32c83244d.gifAnd here they are together, along with an earlier example of the Polish Lancer built straight from the box for comparison./media/tinymce_upload/b33d0737184ba6a35b5b50f1b494681e.gif/media/tinymce_upload/6764cdcd49f7e2fb68aa4a84da4ad27f.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 On this, the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, here is a quick canter through the battle via 54mm models, please excuse the lack of Prussians as I do not yet have any models of them, so this is a particularly British perspective/media/tinymce_upload/b1c67c52f9a4e939ce93ba15d0d9f00a.gifNapoleon had landed back in France 1 March 1815 and commenced his march on ParisOn his way he picked up support from many of his old soldiers and some of his Marshals including Marshal Ney/media/tinymce_upload/73c716f6a1ee7080524290d67021cdea.gifNapoleon after organising and deciding on his next course of action decided attack was the best form of defence, so launch his campaign on 15 June.After two bloody engagements at Ligny and Quatre Bras, Wellington chose to stand at what is now the battlefield of waterloo.Battle commence about 11:30 with the advance of Reille's troops on the farm of Hougoumont/media/tinymce_upload/1afcec9df5bc91eea5a8e35cf6b4597c.gifThis battle within a battle lasted the entire day, the farms defenders consisting of British, Nassau and other Allied forces held the farm against repeated attacks. Notable amongst the defenders were the British Guards/media/tinymce_upload/67b73ae3fa7a6cafa16d12a6c14b9a4a.gifWhist this action continue Napoleon launch D'Erlon's troops against the Allied lines/media/tinymce_upload/67cc3c17f9333a74d0a29d2f37aa4ef4.gifThey very nearly succeeded and it led to the death of Thomas Picton. But the attack was finally routed by the charge of the British Heavy Cavalry/media/tinymce_upload/4bf4b88cddae7712bfc0ed865a5cdf76.gifHowever, the cavalry failed to rally after the initial charge, and with the bit between their teeth charged the French gun line. Exhausted and with blown horses they tried to return, but in doing so were cut off and roughly handled by French Cavalry, including Lancers./media/tinymce_upload/02afc8653dd3e232923245844fcd5df0.gifAfter more hard pounding, Marshal Ney/media/tinymce_upload/69814beafbc01c6e627a251361bb9bee.gifcharged the British lines with the French cavalry, believing they were wavering./media/tinymce_upload/312196e836bddf75861a18b6abe9d24e.gifDespite repeated charges over an extended period of time, the Allied squared held firm/media/tinymce_upload/e751c540c01683d33aca4f8c0b96a7c2.gifLater in the day, Ney managed a success, with the capture of La Haie Sainte which had been defended by many, most famously Maj Baring with the light companies of 2 Bn KGL./media/tinymce_upload/a5a1d56713b70b1566f131ecd9f19f0c.gifThis was a crisis point, but lacking troops to exploit the situation, Wellington was able to reorganise his line. Napoleon was otherwise occupied dealing with the Prussian advance on his right flank.When this was stabilised Napoleon play his last roll of the dice and launched the Imperial Guard against the Allied lines/media/tinymce_upload/322073415ebba8ded85482d4e8b0a6e4.gifThis advance was ultimately unsuccessful, with the Guard repulsed French morale crumbled and the retreating French were chased by Prussians and Allied light cavalry, turning the retreat into a rout./media/tinymce_upload/a625c8505a92572597e1d4b25fe8e78a.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padefc Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Great figures an superb narration grouchy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 My latest airfix based figure is a infantry of the 1 company, 2 Bn, 2 Bn, 2 Regt Nassau-Usingen Regt, that was heavily involved in the defence of Hougomont Farm. (see Waterloo Archives, vol V). This figure was based on a Frecl Line infantry kit. I had to alter the jackey, to shortern and thin out the tails, alter the front hasteing and buttons, then adapted the shako. I also has to adapt the swaord and bayonet strapping. I actully think this was a sucessful project and I like the result.I did notice that the moulding for this model werr very thick in places and needed a lot of thining out. I did think I might replace the ramrod, as the models is rather thick, but I just wanted to complete it in the end./media/tinymce_upload/9f2cb8b4797f8cf7f423f5a4236d67f3.gif/media/tinymce_upload/5f76294545976476c813c580c0ae8864.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thHussar Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/fc733c9db92e913313cc02c205b9e82d.JPG this is one of my recent efforts depicting a trooper of the French 13th Hussars 1814 (ex Jerome Napoleon Westphalian hussars), its a kit built figure similar to the Airfix collectors series mounted on an old Brtains/Herald horse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/fc733c9db92e913313cc02c205b9e82d.JPG this is one of my recent efforts depicting a trooper of the French 13th Hussars 1814 (ex Jerome Napoleon Westphalian hussars), its a kit built figure similar to the Airfix collectors series mounted on an old Brtains/Herald horseNice job. Alot of the Hussars were all based on the Hungarian uniform no matter the country of service. So it was difficult to diferentiate regiments, and national identities in the fog of war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thHussar Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Thanks Grouchy was nice figure to make and paint. I am currently working on 3 x mounted French 9th Line Lancers in their transitional very gaudy colourful uniform of about 1812-13 green kurtka jacket with yellow facings, red czapka head dress plus red trousers. I read they were originally dragoons from Hamburg taken into the French line. Will post photo when done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grouchy Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Well the tartan paint finally arrived, so I have managed to complete the 42 Higlander. Not a bad little kit, but it was a bit dirty, with lots of excess flashing and extra plastic, but nothing that could not be overcome. I did enjoy paintng the tartan, three different shades of green and a blue were used, althought you cannot really distinguish the differences in the photo. Next will be the 10th Hussar, the last one of the Airfix Naploeonics figures to make. But I will need to replace the headgear as the 10th wore a shako at Waterloo not a busby./media/tinymce_upload/eaf5f96393d907d075cf3f1d0f2890f4.gif /media/tinymce_upload/df2b989d004e8169904dc0583389b103.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted May 19, 2022 Author Share Posted May 19, 2022 Some horses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ratch Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 2nd Life Guard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 4th Bengal Lancer, 1900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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