Project "Deluge"

[Kaiphranos]

Project "Deluge" - Poles vs Swedes in the 17th century?

[krugi3]

Project "Deluge" - Poles vs Swedes in the 17th century?

The secret is no secret anymore. You are absolutely right.

[Kaiphranos]

You can blame my reading the Sienkiewicz Trilogy at an impressionable age. Looking forward to seeing further progress and (eventually) the finished work!

[Santi Pérez]

In my humble opinion, Thomas, the river water now has all the appearance of real running water. Great work!

Santi.

[Ochoin]

I really like this style of presenting your work in instalments. Keep up the good work.

donald

[krugi3]

Hello!

As the next step I worked on the path across the bridge and the area behind it. A few stones as well some gravel on the path improved the overall picture extremely. Materials and colours were the same as on the riverbed, additionally a sandy brown drybrushed on the path.



Then it was time for something green around the riverbed. Faller turf and afterwards some green colour variations with a brush did the job well and gives a quite realistic look.






Greetings from Austria
Thomas

[Michael Robert]

Hi Krugi,
very interesting your "work in progress". Very well taught - even with the failed experiment, or just because.
I have no idea where there is a clue for "Poles vs Swedes", but I definitely adored reading Sinkievics "With fire and sword", and the result will be great I'm sure. Actually, when I think of it, there is one episode where the Poles fight the Cossack and Tartar and the latter seek cover in a kind of water-way and marsh water system.
You could add colourfull Tartars to the Dio.

Greetings
Michael

[krugi3]

Hello!

Now it's time for the first figures or better said horses. Wonderful beasts by Zvezda, but for a cavalry charge unfortunately too few poses.



Therefore some conversions by bending or cutting off and glueing on of the legs. Too much work is not necessary, as most of it can't be seen at the end. Small differences can make interesting effects.





Some testing with the converted horses had to be done, to ensure that the scene really works. The holes in the ground now make sense.





The fine tuning of the horses still have to be done.

Greetings from Austria
Thomas

[Iceman1964]

Thomas, your work in progress is becoming more and more interesting and useful ! the description of the river building will be extremely useful for me when I will have the same to do (never done up to now), thanks a lot.

now waiting the rest of the project

Enrico

[Santi Pérez]

I totally agree with Enrico's opinion, Thomas. With the detailed explanation of the progress of your project and the complete photo reports you manage to hook us and make us want to see more and more. Good job!

Santi.

[krugi3]

Hello!

After a longer time of inactivity (too little time) I can present some further achievements.

These things I did to the horses:
1. Flash removed
2. Size of bases decreased
3. Four missing pistol grips modelled with putty
4. Two armour piercers (overlength swords) removed
5. All holes for the riders filled with putty
6. Size increased of ten ears (definitely too small)
7. Reigns bent for positions of the riders
8. Some legs bent or cut off and newly glued
9. Three heads slightly bent to the side
10. Decorations on the reigns altered (tassels, ...)
11. Small holes and gaps filled with putty
12. Smoothing of cut off parts with putty
13. Basing with Humbrol 30 for seeing still existing problem areas

And so they look after all this is done:



Greetings from Austria
Thomas

[Santi Pérez]

Even though the things you've done with those horses may seem minor, Thomas, they guarantee that whatever comes next will have a solid foundation and lead to a great result. Well done!

Santi.