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1/72 French Dragoons

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1/72 French Dragoons
Posted by Victorious Secret on Sunday, January 9, 2011 2:25 AM

Hello Folks,

First time posting here... I hope I can contribute more of my work in the future. :)

This is my 1/72 scale French Dragoon from the Napoleonic War.  The kit is from 3 boxes of Italeri French dragoon set and I built it pretty much out of the boxes except changed few head positions and adding side muskets.  This project took me about 4 monthes of continues daily painting exercise to complete.  During this time I have learned alot about blending and small scale painting.  Although there are multiple of the same poses I try my best make sure each individual figure is unique in some way so there are no exact same figure.  As for the the accuracy goes it is not 100% as there are minor parts of scupt which does not agree with my historical references, therefore I had to make some asthetic adjustment.

I also want to thank my girlfriend for her support as she is a fantastic model builder too and excellent QC for my project.

Grand view of all 40 unit

Some samples of set of fives


Couple close shots from the left flank


I added muskets from Hat and did some modification


Views from the right flank


The ugly and only terrain I have which used as background  :lol:

Detail of the captain

 

For those who are still interested, I photoed each individual riders for better details. They are all unique in color/pose/ and in my website.  Here's the index:

http://vsmodel.weebly.com/2/post/2010/12/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit3.html

Comments and criticisms are very welcome.  Thank you,

Warm regards,

VS

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Posted by shoot&scoot on Sunday, January 9, 2011 3:46 AM

Great work on the braille scale figs!  The bases look excellent as well.  Love the grass, quite a few people struggle to make it look right including me.  Thanks for sharing and by the way, welcome to the forums!Toast

                                                                                               Pat.

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Sunday, January 9, 2011 8:02 AM

Really excellent painting, especially considering the scale.  Thanks for sharing.

Regards,  Rick

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Posted by DerOberst on Monday, January 10, 2011 3:29 PM

Impressive work!

I would love to get a better feel for the actual size.  

 

Any pictures with a reference, like a paint tin or a coin?

 

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Posted by Victorious Secret on Monday, January 10, 2011 9:22 PM

Thank you all for your kind comments.

DerOberst,  Here's a picture of a  coin 35mm in diameter,  I hope this help.



Warm regards,

VS

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Posted by captfue on Monday, January 10, 2011 11:11 PM

Outstanding painting! esp on such small fiqures.

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Posted by deafpanzer on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 7:56 AM

Ditto  No figures and horses look alike.  Must have taken you very long time...

Andy

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Posted by smeagol the vile on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:01 PM

Hey Brother Vs, glad to see you postin here.  I still love these figures.

 

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Posted by jackball74 on Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:53 PM

Absolutely phenomenal! 

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Posted by SuppressionFire on Monday, January 24, 2011 5:55 AM

Excellent work!

The individual bases are a neat idea yet I am wondering why the beveled edges?

If done with square sides the scene would fit together almost seamlessly.

How are you planning to display the collection? Also individually or as a group these will place very well in a contest.

Unless I missed something I believe you should add shoulder straps for the muskets.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/razordws/GB%20Badges/WMIIIGBsmall.jpg

 

 

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Posted by Buckeye on Monday, January 24, 2011 6:03 AM

That is amazing work there! Bow Down

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Posted by Victorious Secret on Monday, January 24, 2011 9:32 AM

Thank you gentlemen for the kind words, I really apprecaited!

@Smeagol,  Hey bro!  Yeah after all these years I finally made an account lol~  It's good to finally be here!

@SuppressionFire, thank you.  I like the bevel edge so I can display the horse as single piece.  I guess in my own opinion it looks "classy".  Another reason is that I use the game workshop base so I don't have to bothered with cutting. :) 

I'm not a wargamer so they are displayed in my glass shelf.  In all honesty I'm beginning to have space issues lol~

I did add shoulder strap to all the rifles.  They are the white strip you see under the rifle like the below reference:



I hope this explain my train of thoughts.

VS

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  • From: Philadelphia PA
Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, January 24, 2011 11:31 AM

Good to see you again, thought you just posted the 3 posts and left, heh.  You should post some of your old gundam work over in the scifi forums, we dont get much of it over there, mostly battlestar galatica, starwars, and startrek

 

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