ITLSU 1917 Project

[paulr]

I managed to take some pictures before the sun disappeared behind the hills yesterday...

2^nd (British) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps Brigade




A Battery, 265^th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery




Ayrshire Royal Horse Artillery




Based
436 Infantry, Gunners, Officers and Signallers
69 Cavalry and Motorcycles
11 Guns and vehicles
516 Total

[paulr]

Talking of camels.
Have you seen this pic ?


Looks quite surreal.

Extraordinary photograph !  

Cheers - Phil

I have seen this picture

It is part of an exhibition of the top 50 photographs from National Geographic that is being shown in the local, Upper Hutt, exhibition venue.

The local council are very pleased to be hosting it as they are a small city (~40,000) about 35km north of the capital of NZ, which didn't get to host the exhibit

[Techno]

I LOVE that last picture, Paul !

The 'proper' ones above, are damn excellent too ! 
Top job, that man !

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That is an amazing piece of art imitating life!
Brilliant job on all of those.

[Leman]

Those camel troops and artillery are really impressive. Nice use of shadowing in final photo.

[fred.]

Very nice painting on the camels - they look great, the blue background sets them off very nicely.

And very clever with the long shadows on the camels!

[paulr]

Thanks all

After Phil's inspiration I had to make use of the low setting sun

[NeilCFord]

A quick basing / painting question:

With MG crews do you base and then paint or paint and then base? I'm thinking the former approach might make getting to some parts rather tricky, but I might just be over thinking things.

- Neil.

[paulr]

A quick basing / painting question:

With MG crews do you base and then paint or paint and then base? I'm thinking the former approach might make getting to some parts rather tricky, but I might just be over thinking things.

- Neil.

HI Neil, I paint and then base all my figures. I have half a dozen painting rods that I attach figures to, grouped by pose. I find I get into a rhythm when painting he same thing on several the of the same pose.

[NeilCFord]

Paul

Thanks for the quick reply. Confirms what I thought would be the the better way to do it.

- Neil.

[paulr]

After almost 6 months working on other projects progress here has resumed

I've sort out the next batch for this project, the first of the Germans of Pasha II
3 Infantry battalions
1 Pioneer company
1 MG company

I'm using GEA3 from the East African range for the MGs as the gunner has a tropical helmet
I'm filing the fezs on the number twos to look more like a tropical helmet, I may try adding a brim as well

The more minor conversions I attempt the more respect I have for the skills of Techno, Clib, et al

[paulr]

Figures cleaned up, fezs filed, brim idea discarded, figures washed

[paulr]

Figures sorted and waiting impatiently for 1914 Germans to vacate the painting rods

[paulr]

1914 Germans are off the painting rods and have been replaced by the 1917 Germans

These were undercoated during a brief lull in the strong winds 

[Roy]

Excellent work on this project