28mm Perry Miniature 7th Hussar

Hello folks, Jen and I decided to start a joint blog after two years painting figures.  We have been collaborate on many projects for years.  This hussar will be our first 28mm figures and hopefully we will paint more in the future.

This figure is the French 7th regiment hussar elite captain sculpted by Perry Miniatures.

All the metallic items on this figure is painted with NMM (non-metal metallic) technique.

Free hand painted sabretache.

Beautifully scupted figure, even in plastic!

Detail of the face.

Bottom of the shoe.  I think alot of guys neglect to paint this part.  Small detail but it does make a difference, especially for cavalry figures.

After doing alot of horse study, we decide its good idea to add texture on the hooves, veins, ribs, and correct muscle tones.

We also decided to sculpt the leopard skin on the saddle to break up the  monotonous of the near black horse.


 

Details of the crests and harness.

The horse is actually dark brown rather than black.

Detail of the leopard saddle.

From this angle, some detail on the horse shoe.

Detail of the horse's face.  I try to make the eyes look as realistic as possible rather than just "black".

Well, that is yet so far.  Our first figure on this blog.  I hope you enjoy and comments are very apprecaited!

1/72 Italeri Napoleonic French Dragoon Sapper (Sapeur)

Hello Folks,

Oldie but something I am fond of.  It's a conversion of an Italeri 1/72 Dragoon.  It depicts the "Dragoon Sapeur " by  the famous artist Edouard Detaille, which my dear friend Sascha think is a terrible artist. :)

The original painting

 My effort of the 1/72 version.

 Rear details

 Flag details.

Converted horse.

 Group shot with the elites

 On my gaming table.

 Detail of the head.

 Initial paint test with sapper badge.

 Initial paint test for the sapper head.

 Base of the figure.

Anyways, it was alot of fun.  I hope you like! 

1/72 Italeri French 5th Hussars

Jen and I have big plans lol~  We are trying to paint 50 French 5th Hussars.  We started last year but never got around to finish.  Hopefully we do.

 We do them all the same pose at the same time with minor modifications so none of them look exactly the same.

Different hats but all labor of love.

 Some facial Studies.

 Single figure snapshot.

I hope you all enjoy~