Ivo i too love the lacework. A true artistic approach which is more than fine in this scale.....rather than sculpting or painting every intricate line, you provide the effect to the eye through the use of different densities of paint. Excellent. Almost any sculpted lace at this scale would likely be horribly out of scale. Great job.

Colin

The lace work looks very good indeed. I think it works very well.

Ian

the rings on the shako

first step print ink and oil mixed





the final with thin black lines to separate the rings

Lovely work ,Ivo, I am quite a fan of printers ink and oil myself. Very neat and even lacework,.....and when you consider the magnification

Cheers, Alan

closer to the end...



sword ( historex has been added as scabbard. The sabretache has been sculpted to open it. Any available is close. A piece of lead foil and some plasticard cut and glued together. Rings done in copper wire.

to mantain the scabbard and sabretache flying I used some brass strips to fix them

Superb Ivo....one your best!

Colin

Ivo, this is by far the nicest rendition of Edouard Detaille's painting of the 4th. Hussars that I've seen anywhere. Manifico.......and can I have one for Christmas?

Cheers, Alan

update

sword and sabretache painted, the scabbard was in brass with steel terminal to to prevent the chafing

Terrific.

Jeff

Superb delicate touches on the horse, too. It all looks so right

Alan

That's my avatar! Outstanding work as usual Ivo. I love Detaille's work.

Beautiful!!!!!

Friedland is growing, born as a single figure is becoming a small vignette...here a trumpeter added

Horse comes from Eisembach range, the assembly has been forced to give more strength to the movement increasing thickness
I weld a pin into the leg ( copper with steel inside) to give stabitlity to the figure
the man is mostly Metal modeles


saddle has been sculpted in milliput terracotta as the details necessary

I changed the horse's head using a metal modeles



copper has been used to fix sword and sabretache, better to mantain the part in position

This is getting even better. Can't wait to see the next instalment.

Final installation will be visible il Long Island next November. Friedland will be part of my conference there.

anhoter charhing hussar...

done as the trumpeter with Eisembach Horse and Metal modeles components.





head comes from Andrea range

Great stuff Ivo...What do you use as a Orange Puty?

I'm loving seeing this one develop it's fantastic.

is the milliput terracotta, easily available

Wow! This is going to be some vignette.