following on from my last posting I managed to catch a few hours modelling time in between gardening duties today,i have started to modify 2 of the muskets,these were originaly French,but the Prussians also used the French charleville musket at waterloo,so some slight modification was required,straps and buckles etc still need to be added,this will come later in the project.
I also added a rolled garment to the rear of one of the busts using MS,i used wire doubled up and twisted to represent the chord sling.
Part of the Prussian infantrymans equipment was the axe,this deadly piece of equipment came in very useful on the difficult march from wavre to waterloo and also the house to house fighting encountered at plancenoit village,i added the axe which I made up from wooden dowel sanded to the appropriate thickness,the axe blade was sketched out on plasti-card and cut out and fixed accordingly.
The flag bearer carries one of the few types of Prussian flag during the hundred days,this IS NOT the flag i'll be using,this is just a print out to give me a feel for the piece during construction,the flag i'll be using I'm currently planning out.



Brian

someones been rather busy by the look of things, can't wait to see the next update.


Malc

Very inspiring stuff.

Marc

Looking excellent so far Brian, keep going.

Can't wait to see how this progresses. Looks great.
Phil

Cor! It all shouts "Dynamic" to me, already getting impatient to see progress.

Alan

That flag!!!! Amazing!!

Regards
Pedro

great all round !
love it !

I give up, the bar has been raised even higher now. Excellent.

Many thanks malc,no work last weekend,so able to catch up

Many thanks marc for your comments

many thanks roger

thank you phil,glad you like it

Many thanks Alan

many thanks pedro,the flag hasn't been painted mate,its a printed one,i used it just to get a feel for what the other one will look like

many thanks marco

many thanks kev

many thanks bob for your kind words

Managed a couple more hours today,for the officer,i scratchbuilt a new sword and hilt,still some more work to do on it yet though and did some scratchwork on the scabbard and slings as well.