Thirteen Models on the Drum (spring clean ’25)

So three elf infantry and one more orc left to go. So here is elf number 2

And the Lloyd shot

I recon if I had started with this sculpt rather than the one I did, I wouldn’t have been so dismissive of the elf line infantry. This model had perfect definition and I’m more than happy with him.

So one week to go, and three models left.. I’m going to have to abandon the idea of doing the cannon and the crew. If I can get the models from the set and the three I striped painted I will class it as a success.

The Sharpe for this set doesn’t look like Sean Bean. The Harper model looks nothing like Daragh O’Malley but that matters. Growing up in 90s in the depths of the Yorkshire Pennines, you only had three local role models, Alan Bennett, Compo and Sean Bean. Although coming from the exact same town as Patrick Stewart for some reason he never made the list, but I digress. Sean Bean was Sharpe. The swashbuckling hero in a regancy uniform. For me Sharpe will always be Sean. (I know he’s nothing like the book version, but that doesn’t matter this is a rant.

In the Flintloque background, Sharpe is an and half orc/elf and in the story he is playing dead to route out the French spy master. But…. it’s not Sean. I am an adult though, so I will paint the model.

Without sounding bitter, the model is slightly odd. The body has some nice details, but the half orc/elf face makes the model neither, and loses some of the look. I believe this bit of the background has been retconed now, and alternative armies sell some wonderful orc models.

The elf captain with the Irish Orcs was a wonderful model to paint. Crisp detail and character in spades.

I don’t have any information on either the sculpters or the manufacture dates, but the ones that came with this set compared are far more superior compared to the ones for the box set.

The striped and cleaned Irish orc has come out rather well.

The model was lovely to paint. The face was so full of expression and the little details like the worn and ripped uniform just added so much character

So here are all the British troops together. To be honest I’m rather proud of them, and just wish I had a better photo of them.

You may be wondering where Sharpe is, and so was I.  For some reason I’m not sure on the Sharpe in this set looks rather like an elf, so I took him to be one of the French infantry. I need to get him done, regardless of how he looks before midsummer.

So I took the orc Duke to meet the iron duke today.

Ignoring the fact that one was real and the other is an orc, there are obviously dressed different. As I wrote before the model is based off an earlier portrait, whilst on display is the dukes long coat and hat from Waterloo. Also if you are interested here are his boots.

Last year I had to go to the opticians as part of a DSE requirement for work, and it turned out I needed a pair of glasses. Only a weak prescription, but still.

So I had a go at painting whilst wearing them and it I discovered I could see the model.. And then I discovered something after. It turns out the glasses have a slight blue ting to them, so the highlights are slightly off.