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Title: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 14, 2012, 09:35:01
Finally completed some more projects, Hope you like them.

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04541.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04542.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04543.jpg)
I actually copied this officer design from gaspodfreud, but have no fear Jeremy, these customs are a part of my collection and are not for sale  :)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04544.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04545.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04546.jpg)

Hopefully, I'll have more soldiers and officers ready to show you soon  :)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bennain on April 14, 2012, 10:20:35
Really good customs!  :)9
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: cowabounga on April 14, 2012, 11:36:37
Really nice. My favourites are the blue footmen with tricornes and the red ones with the black belts and épaulettes. Those are awesome, should become a special if you ask me!
 ;)
Arnaud
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: cheng on April 14, 2012, 12:55:38
thats the way I like my napoleonic armies too WK!
very handsome 'gangs' indeed! congrats! :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Pynedor on April 14, 2012, 13:02:37
Nice ones, Wolf Knight!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on April 14, 2012, 13:37:53
Excellent customs! Your armies are quite impressive, Panos!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on April 14, 2012, 13:42:12
Wow, they look really sharp, Panos! Good work. :clap: :clap: :clap:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Giorginetto on April 14, 2012, 14:28:17
Excellent customs !!!!! love them all !!!! awesome !!!!  :love: :love: :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Justindo on April 14, 2012, 18:09:24
These are superb, Panos!  Your Napoleonic officers in the first pic look magnificent!  Your various infantry and cavalry companies also look very good, particularly your mid-19th century Prussians, and your British/American sailors look really authentic.  Well done! :hatoff:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tonguello on April 14, 2012, 18:59:56
WOW!!!! They are amazing Panos!!!
Im green with envy!  :lol:

I love them all!  :love: :love: :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 14, 2012, 22:13:52
Thank you for all your good words guys  :) I am so glad you like them!!!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: conniefrere on April 15, 2012, 11:03:52
 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Great customs!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: playmo1989 on April 15, 2012, 13:38:32
nice custom officers  :)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Hadoque on April 15, 2012, 15:02:12
Very nice, and I have the same favourites as Arnaud.  8-)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Luis on April 15, 2012, 17:23:39
i love them all too, Panos! :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tahra on April 15, 2012, 19:57:20
I especially love the blue ones in 2nd, 3rd and last! :love:  :love:

(think you should change hairs/heads of the 5th ones though....)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on April 15, 2012, 20:38:07
Wow excellent collection of soldiers! Every group is unique in a way.  :love:


Baden
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 15, 2012, 20:44:13
Thank you all for your positive feedbacks! Much appreciated  :)

(think you should change hairs/heads of the 5th ones though....)

Any suggestions, tahra? To tell the truth, although I absolutely love the group like Arnaud and Hadoque, I was wondering about their heads... but then again I dont want to use mustache ones nor beards  :-\ Maybe if i gave them all regular types of hair?
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tahra on April 16, 2012, 09:31:45
Thank you all for your positive feedbacks! Much appreciated  :)

Any suggestions, tahra? To tell the truth, although I absolutely love the group like Arnaud and Hadoque, I was wondering about their heads... but then again I dont want to use mustache ones nor beards  :-\ Maybe if i gave them all regular types of hair?

I try to make each of then unique, with the hairs/faces... If you don't want beards, you can have freckles (for a red head or blonde), the eyebrows ("angry" or "normal", like the wandering monk), or an eyepatch (I seem to almost have a greyhaired soldier with one - my sister has started to laugh at it)...   

As for hairs, depends which styles you want to use, and then you can have one in each color.
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 16, 2012, 09:52:44
I try to make each of then unique, with the hairs/faces... If you don't want beards, you can have freckles (for a red head or blonde), the eyebrows ("angry" or "normal", like the wandering monk), or an eyepatch (I seem to almost have a greyhaired soldier with one - my sister has started to laugh at it)...   

As for hairs, depends which styles you want to use, and then you can have one in each color.


Ah i see what you mean, different facial features for each of them. Its just that these particular guys are supposed to be a very special bodyguard for the Grand Admiral, so I thought uniformity must go past the uniform.
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: hauden_lukas on April 16, 2012, 22:53:17
The only thing I don't like: silver collars on the blue hussards with the golden print - that is in my opinion not matching (use either gold or white for example).

The black hussard from the first pic is my favorite!

Cheers,
HDL
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tahra on April 17, 2012, 12:54:35
Ah i see what you mean, different facial features for each of them. Its just that these particular guys are supposed to be a very special bodyguard for the Grand Admiral, so I thought uniformity must go past the uniform.

Well, the thing is, in the meat world, even if everyone is blonde with no facial hair, we're all (mostly) different... With klickys, we have little to make them different with. So I use what I deem appropriate in terms of hair "styles" (including facial hair), and try to make them all different within those..

Freckles, for example, is not something the guy could shave off...
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 17, 2012, 15:20:28
The only thing I don't like: silver collars on the blue hussards with the golden print - that is in my opinion not matching (use either gold or white for example).


White collars are good alternative!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Tiermann on April 17, 2012, 17:57:12
Lots of great figures here too. Very nice combinations
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: WarriorOfToys on April 20, 2012, 14:08:04
Excellent Dragoons! :wow:
I am loving these pictures! :clap:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 07, 2012, 07:29:24
Thank you Tim and Warrior  :)

One more group is ready:

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04638.jpg)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Pynedor on May 07, 2012, 12:45:15
Nice! That set looks great. ;)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tonguello on May 07, 2012, 19:34:58
Wow!! those are really cute clickies!  :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: gaspodfreud on May 08, 2012, 01:40:27
Hi Panos ; very nice figures but not news ideas ; i agree with hauden_lukas for the grey collar but why not !! .
Thanks for your sincerity : it's a pleasure to give you fews ideas ! Anyway if you respect colors law with theses kind of soldiers , of course lots of people will do the same witch is not a problem (only the problem of getting the parts )
Don't worry : i know you're not a seller and i won't be a seller soon ...(i know now collectors don't want to give one euro for ideas ... ) unhappilly i won't share in public place lots of models who can be sold easilly (famous personnality for example) to not feed oportunists , people will continue to sell zorro , m jackson and jeanne d'arc on ebay while it's possible for me to make 400 like that ... My contribution in the forum will be very little now but you can stand by me to watch what you do and answer you when i will get a bit time .
Jeremy     
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Justindo on May 08, 2012, 02:47:51
I like your most recent group of redcoats, Panos. :)9
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on May 08, 2012, 03:06:53
 :o LOVE the officer on the left!!!
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: cheng on May 08, 2012, 07:48:31
nice redcoats customs, WK!

:o LOVE the officer on the left!!!
....as long as Chris doesnt mind ;)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on May 08, 2012, 12:57:43
....as long as Chris doesnt mind ;)

 :P
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: playmo1989 on May 09, 2012, 03:46:06
:o LOVE the officer on the left!!!

 
Who?  ??? ??? the old one with the classic wig?  :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 09, 2012, 05:21:32
:o LOVE the officer on the left!!!

I haven't thought of any particular rank for him  :eh?: Maybe a government official? I struggled a lot not to make him look liks Santa Claus  :lol:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tonguello on May 09, 2012, 15:11:37
I haven't thought of any particular rank for him  :eh?: Maybe a government official? I struggled a lot not to make him look liks Santa Claus  :lol:

A Viceroy!  :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on May 10, 2012, 03:11:53

 
Who?  ??? ??? the old one with the classic wig?  :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

Yep! Love that wig, and I think he looks awesome.
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 10, 2012, 06:18:02
Yep! Love that wig, and I think he looks awesome.

Yeap, i tried many combinations of hair and face for him, in the end I remembered an ebay seller had send me a few of these wigs as a present, so I had a go with the grey mustache too... used another Sinterklaas coat, the 4293pirate captain torso and the legs from the 4444 pirate, since his boots were completely black.

A Viceroy!  :love:

Sounds like a good idea  ;D
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on May 11, 2012, 03:17:48
Yeap, i tried many combinations of hair and face for him, in the end I remembered an ebay seller had send me a few of these wigs as a present, so I had a go with the grey mustache too... used another Sinterklaas coat, the 4293pirate captain torso and the legs from the 4444 pirate, since his boots were completely black.

Those wigs were a great gift! I really like his sleeves, too. They're a nice touch.
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Georgeag1972 on May 23, 2012, 09:21:08
Amazing customs Panos, well done. :clap: :clap: :clap:
My favourite are these at the second pictures.
Great work, I'm impressed with your imagination. :)9 :)9 :)9 :)9

George :)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Wolf Knight on August 09, 2012, 21:46:38
Been some time, but finally managed to finish this next small group.

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/Soldiers%20and%20Officers/DSC04887.jpg)

Believe it or not, I was missing a belt, three hats and three rifles for four months now  :lol:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: bonniebeth on August 09, 2012, 21:53:48
They look really nice! I especially like the officers, of course. :love:
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Pynedor on August 09, 2012, 22:41:41
They look great, Wolf Knight. :)
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Georgeag1972 on August 10, 2012, 10:36:41
Fantastic customs, I like them so much. :love: :love:
Excellent work Panos for one more time. :)9 :)9 :)9 :)9 :)9

George.
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: tahra on August 10, 2012, 12:50:33
Those in black are REALLY nice.. I just think they should have different hairs...
Title: Re: Soldiers and Officers
Post by: Justindo on August 10, 2012, 23:19:23
These new blackcoats look sharp, Panos!  I like how you've used silver trim for the enlisted men and the gold trim for the officers. :)

I know how frustrating it can be to be so close to completing a custom but unable to do so for the lack of a few minor parts. >:(