Off Duty
A new project, still in the Napoleonic era, but with more of a scratch building slant.
I have bought the “French Officer, 4th Dragoons 1812″ from Andrea Miniatures (S7-F10) but with the intention of doing a different scene from those I have done in the past.
This model is of a Dragoon sitting on a wooden chair having just completed his meal. He is leaning back, facing away from the table with a pipe in his hand.
Following some research I have come up with an idea for a small diorama …………… so watch this space and see how it unfolds.
To be honest, I do not know how well this Napoleonic diorama will turn out as a number of the pieces will have to be constructed from raw material. One of these pieces will be something I have never done before, so a new challenge for me.
The model kit box has been opened, and I have cleaned up the castings, filed and shaped the arms etc so that they are a good fit onto the body, and have undercoated them in white primer.
Unfortunately the chair needed much more work, and I have just spent (at a table in the sun in the garden) most of the afternoon filing, drilling and dry building the chair to get all the small parts to fit snugly together.
The holes in the back of the chair needed to be drilled out a bit deeper and a bit wider.
All the bars of ‘wood’ were test fitted into the newly drilled holes to check for fit and alignment.
Now the chair and the table are ready for undercoating in white primer.
With these two major elements built I can now measure up (roughly) for a base which will give me an idea how much room I will have for the rest of the elements of the diorama.