tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991076225884911243.post1876115925720796666..comments2024-01-02T12:06:51.403+00:00Comments on Tarleton's Quarter: Major-General Baron de GhignyGileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431052344684945450noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991076225884911243.post-13906414042665362132007-02-22T21:26:00.000+00:002007-02-22T21:26:00.000+00:00Blimey Giles. How do you keep up this rate of pain...Blimey Giles. How do you keep up this rate of painting productivity? You seem to have done virtually all of Napoleon's staff and most of the Dutch-Belgian cavalry in the time its taken me to do half a horse!<BR/><BR/>Still, I'm really enjoying watching your forces take shape. Maybe I'll have one or two Prussians to show you by the time Salute comes around...<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991076225884911243.post-90411631330340544422007-02-18T20:10:00.000+00:002007-02-18T20:10:00.000+00:00Hi Tom - glad to see I'm not the only one with Sal...Hi Tom - glad to see I'm not the only one with Salute uniform worries! Page 18 of the Osprey MAA on the Dutch 1815 army says of the 6th Hussars: "Trumpeters wore black busbies, with white plume and red bag.....and had sky-blue shabraques". The painted example on the Perry website is of a 6th Hussars trumpeter and he also has a sky-blue shabraque. When I realised I'd got that wrong I gave him blue trumpet-cords in compensation, although I knew that was correcting one wrong with another wrong! It's perhaps a bit odd that the trumpeter is from the 6th, i.e. a regiment that was not present in either Trip's or Ghigny's brigade, and that this chap has a busby whilst the trumpeter in the hussars command pack doesn't...But they are such great sculpts we can't complain. Looking forward to seeing your versions at the game!<BR/><BR/>Kind regards<BR/><BR/>GilesGileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431052344684945450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991076225884911243.post-83336239890709748892007-02-18T13:08:00.000+00:002007-02-18T13:08:00.000+00:00Hi Giles,You couldn't have posted these pictures a...Hi Giles,<BR/><BR/>You couldn't have posted these pictures at a better time as I am about to paint Ghigny, Trip and the ADC for one of the guys at the club (Loughton Strike Force) and was unsure about the uniforms. I believe they will be used as the actual Generals themselves for the Salute game, so we will have some doppelgangers on the field of battle :). As far as I can tell the trumpet cord should be white and all the references I have seen for the saddle-cloth show it to be red, is this changed to blue because he is an ADC? <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I am loving the blog, you seem to be producing great paint jobs at an amazing pace. Hopefully I will be at the Salute game to see some of them in the lead.<BR/><BR/>Best Regards,<BR/>Tom Landels aka PorthiusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991076225884911243.post-4600934722567407862007-02-18T10:13:00.000+00:002007-02-18T10:13:00.000+00:00Hey Giles:Did you see this web:I think so its grea...Hey Giles:<BR/><BR/>Did you see this web:<BR/><BR/>I think so its great.<BR/><BR/>http://www.mont-saint-jean.com/cent_jours/PagePrincipale.htm<BR/><BR/>Im working too in the Quatre Brass Proyect.<BR/><BR/>I m trying to go to Salute, I live in Spain so if I ´ll go we can meet there.<BR/><BR/>Thanks and Best RegardsPeritashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780050636128371995noreply@blogger.com