The Duke of Wellington's army (25.000 1/72 Airfix bods)

[Bourbaki]

[Paul]

Ha! So that´s why there were never any Napoleonic waterloo british Airfix bods in the shops...
Amazing amount of work!!!

[luchs]

this man have a lot of time to spare..
great work and patience...

[Dad's Army]

and no red paint in the shops as well, just incredible

[SamSagace]

.... I'm sceptical with this kind of "work" !!!
For me it's good for the Records Book, and that's all!
It's awful and interesting !

[musketier]

I like it, I wonder though, wouldn't one get very tired of painting that many of just one nation's troops?
Just thinking about all that red paint Only problem with a project that large of course it would take a lot of time and over that period one's ability should progressively get better ( I know that myself because it's taking years to do my own Napoleonics and my style has changed, and I am trying to resist the temptation to start all over )

[Paul]

my style has changed, and I am trying to resist the temptation to start all over )

This is one of the reasons I changed from Ancients to medievals. My style had changed as i learnt more and I became displeased with the look of my Romans..and ti repaints several 1000 of them was a bit off putting

[musketier]

This is one of the reasons I changed from Ancients to medievals. My style had changed as i learnt more and I became displeased with the look of my Romans..and ti repaints several 1000 of them was a bit off putting

That makes good sense, I think you did a pretty good job on your Romans. I look at my first batch of Napoleonics (oh my they were done in the late 80's!) and they just don't look like they will fit in with the newer batches

[Peter]

25.000 figures! and painted and as far I can see they have been placed one by one on that table

Good find

[Wheeling Turn]

wow that is what I call crazy....but I love it

[Paul]

25.000 figures! and painted and as far I can see they have been placed one by one on that table

would be great fun to go and nudge the table..just a little bit

[Peter]

would be great fun to go and nudge the table..just a little bit

My father, may he rest in peace, called that an earthquake Paul

[Roryb]

So thats why the figures were discontinued except from the waterloo
Great job

[Zed1]

Well - changing style doesn't matter on that level. When you have several thousand figures on a big diorama, people usually don't look too close to a single figure anymore. So the 'bad painted sins of the past' will most probably just disappear among the masses of other redcoats.

[Duke atreides]

Well - changing style doesn't matter on that level. When you have several thousand figures on a big diorama, people usually don't look too close to a single figure anymore. So the 'bad painted sins of the past' will most probably just disappear among the masses of other redcoats.

That's my hope!!!

[Tantallon2]

Blimey! How did he explain buying that many figures to his wife?

[Bourbaki]

He sold his wife to keep buying figures

[SamSagace]

He sold his wife to keep buying figures

... I'm sure that he was not alone... so they all sold their wives! (not sure, but I remember that I've seen them on e-bay... )

But can't say if it was a good idea: why selling your wife if it's for making a such awful work ???????

[Zed1]

... I'm sure that he was not alone... so they all sold their wives! (not sure, but I remember that I've seen them on e-bay... )

But can't say if it was a good idea: why selling your wife if it's for making a such awful work ???????

So that's the moment when we get back to the good old question: quality or quantity?
You cannot expect someone painting 25.000 figures in - let's say - Paul-quality within just a few years. Well - if it's not Paul himself. I expect he could do that in a few months. He's the Chuck Norris of quickpainting.

Sorry - I've seen several biiiig dioramas. When they have been created by a team of several painters, the figures look mediocre to good, but if someone manages to create big armies all on his own, the result is always a poorer painting quality.
But I can only repeat that you mainly don't recognize that when looking at a large-scale diorama, because you will look at the 'big thing' in total, not at the single figure anymore.

[SamSagace]

I didn't saw your post, Sascha!

well... I know all what you said, it's not the problem!
But I'm not impressed with such a work and said it's awful because there's no life in it!
even a "Museum dio" or something like that must be life-full !!
(Waterloo is a battle, not a parade!!!!!! )

I saw many "quantity works" which are good and "painted single figure" which are bad (or which I don't like! ), so the quality is not a question of quantity, in my opinion!

I didn't paint quantity, because I don't know how to do and prefer painting each figure in a different way than the other which will be next it! For me it's more "fun"...

I didn't change my opinion about that work! ....