Hi All,

Here are some pix if my Franco-Prussian War vignette. It took a little over 5 weeks of work and I enjoyed every bit.



Thanks for looking

Jason

Before...

...after

Hi Jason,

Sorry i couldn't see the after pic,did it not work or is it my old pc?

Okay,now it came up after my first post,never mind it was me LOL
Great work!!

Grizzly

No Thomas, it was my fault. I could not find the pic I wanted. Sorry.

Thanks for the kind words.

Heres another-

Awesome Jason............as a sculpter and a painter.........great work!!

guy

Jason, thanks for giving me another excuse to use this wonderful smilie


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I can only repeat: I just LOVE this! You're a very good sculptor and painter, and I love seeing Prussians in miniature - I just like the"Advance, and do or die!" attitude of the 19th century Prussian soldier!


Again :

Thanks Guy and Johan. I'll post a couple moore soon

Sorry if the pix are fuzzy, the highlights on the faces are not that stark. It's a never ending battle w/ the camera and the setup.

Looks great Jason. I look forward to seeing it in 3d. I really like the composition and sense of motion.

:lol:

Oh btw, can you tell us also what unit they are - Prussians or Saxons ? (at gravelotte st privat I suppose?)

Wonderfull work mate, I really admire someone that can do both Sculpt and Paint

Robin

Jason, Fantastic work my friend, Only five weeks huh? At the rate I work I'd still be mixing up the putty. You have developed quite a system for yourself that work well to say the least.~Gary

Johan,

It's depicting the Prussian 4th Guard Grenadier Regiment (Queen Augusta's) of the 4th Guards Brigade of the 2nd Guards Division. They were part of the first wave of attacks on St. Privat.
According to Osprey's book on the campaign, their objective this day was the farm of Jerusalem just south of St. Privat. Within a matter of minutes the French delivered murderously accurate Chassepot rifle fire and both regiments (2nd and 4th) of the brigade suffered severe casualties, the 4th Reg't losing ALL it's officers.

A note on the uniform. I used Outpost Wargame Service: Franco-Prussian War painting guide Volume two. At first I was reluctant to use a wargame painting guide, aside from it's lack of eye pleasing illustrations it's very well documented and I was sold when reading their bibliography section and it looked credible to me(sometimes I just like to know where people get their sources Anyway, the uniform of the 4th Guard Grenadiers differed from the ones of the Foot Guards and was devoid of the "Litzun" on cuffs and collar.

Hope that didn't bore ya

gorgeous! do share more!

Thanks John, Robin, Gary and Gordy.

Here's another.

another...

I really think you have all the abilities to turn out a magnificent Fr-Pr war diorama some day ... have you looked at the range of Verlinden buildings/ruined houses etc. ? Some of that stuff would look good as 19th century French buildings.