Er....there's been a slight delay to the Empress Dragoons due to the wrong kind of figures on the production line. Painting will resume with the arrival of yet more Hinton Hunt replacements. These are even now winging their way across the globe, courtesy of the Archduke!
This should have been the perfect opportunity to crack on with my final French battery, but what I ended up doing instead was obsessing about something else entirely. This was: what to you do when you're one figure short of a regiment of Chasseurs and all you've got is a ropy old Lamming French hussar officer, a spare Hinton Hunt horse and box full of unwanted Scruby, Hinchliffe and Minifigs bits and bobs?
Mrs WM, on the other hand, refers to him as the "Essex Hussar", but then she's like that.
It was the horse, of course, which was the really nerve-wracking bit as I had to detach him from his base and reposition one of the hind legs in order to get him to rear up properly, as well as more or less completely reconstruct his left foreleg. I had to resort to a bit of Scruby assistance for the last part.
The hat is a Hinchliffe creation with the original Lamming French officer's plume grafted onto it.
He's not quite the Théodore Géricault masterpiece I had in my mind's eye, but he'll definitely fill the gap.
As this is likely to be the last Hintonspieler post for 2016, it only remains for me to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
WM
This should have been the perfect opportunity to crack on with my final French battery, but what I ended up doing instead was obsessing about something else entirely. This was: what to you do when you're one figure short of a regiment of Chasseurs and all you've got is a ropy old Lamming French hussar officer, a spare Hinton Hunt horse and box full of unwanted Scruby, Hinchliffe and Minifigs bits and bobs?
And the answer, two very nervous weeks later, was:
an officer of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale.
Mrs WM, on the other hand, refers to him as the "Essex Hussar", but then she's like that.
The hat is a Hinchliffe creation with the original Lamming French officer's plume grafted onto it.
He's not quite the Théodore Géricault masterpiece I had in my mind's eye, but he'll definitely fill the gap.
As this is likely to be the last Hintonspieler post for 2016, it only remains for me to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
WM
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| With sincere apologies to Géricault . Note to self: don't try to get a job as a Photoshop artist. |
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