Hola pF amigos,

I've just finished my another old-kit revival project.





Here's WIP images:



I'm not sure all the equipments I scratch-built are historically correct, especially leopard skin, which I don't know if it actually used by life guards, but I just wanted to make it.

Any comment are welcome, as aways.

That is fantastic work right there.
Ed

This looks excellent!

Excelent work!

Really nice work, I love the sloping ground
well done
sam

Awesome! Very nice paintjob! Did you use the original head or a replacement? Regards Martin

This is indeed excellent work, even when considering the soft detail of those
54mm Napoleonic kit by Airfix from so many years ago.

Congratulations on a beautiful job.

Jaybird

Beautiful painting.

Cheers Ken

Nice work.
Gus

Really nice work

I realy like your treatment of this old kit. It caught my attention right away.
Not sure about a trooper having a Leopardskin saddle, but so what, it looks good.

Thank you very much for your warm compliments, Carl, Ed, Mike, Pedro, sam, Martin, Rick, Ken, Gustavo, Whitney, grenadier! I really appreciate it.

Thank you very much sam, this is one of the points I wanted to emphasize in this vignette, I try not use flat ground which is no effect on moving things. I thought terrain 3 dimensionally to express the horse moving down the hill. I'm glad someone notice this point.

No Martin, I didn't use replacement head. As I showed in WIP pictures I used original head, added re-sculpted ears only. I didn't dig up or re-work the molds on the face neither, I wanted to try how much I can do on the soft molded face by only using paint work.

Yes, this is why I named this project "old-kit revival", I wanted to give life to good' old kits.

Thank you very much grenadier, I'm relieved. I got an information that the leopardskin is used a lot in French Army after I built it...so if this was historically incorrect, it was too late to fix it.

Superb mate on a simple kit, nice one !!

kazufumi, very well done! bill

Hi! Kazufumi.
I was waiting for completion of your work pleasantly.
I was also seeing your blog,it was amazing progress.
This work is a wonderful finish.
It was brilliant and built into a gorgeous work.
Indeed the masterpiece which is Great.
I congratulate completion.

Mitsutaka.

Very impressive!



Mark

Thank you very much Rob, william, Mitsutaka, mark!

Thank you very much for watching WIP articles in my blog Mitsutaka, I'm glad.

I have spend too much time on painting face, it took about about 10 days to finish. Painting realistic face on plain old mold is really a hard work, it was harder than I thought.

There's some small details better to fix, and severall cut-corners in painting work, because I lost my energy by painting face.

Here's also a great thread to know AIRFIX 54mm series by Mick Toal.

http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?p=374034

Great to see craftsmanship.

By using basic techniques, taking some care, and applying Patience and persistence, a older kit has been brought up to a real winner, able to stand up t a more modern sample.

Subarashii desu ne!