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Title: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: marshall1945 on 20 March 2016, 01:59:52 PM
After a long winter break (and hear is mainly why http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/interlude.html (http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/interlude.html)) I have been back doing things and finishing things off that were partly done. The first to come out is my 6mm Adler French line cavalry, lights and heavies:

http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/french-line-cavalry.html (http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/french-line-cavalry.html)

Steve
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: Nosher on 20 March 2016, 02:36:55 PM
Lovely. I do like Adler 6mm :)
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: jambo1 on 20 March 2016, 04:19:35 PM
Lovely work on them, they look cracking!! :-bd :-bd
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: Zippee on 20 March 2016, 04:23:56 PM
Very, very nice work,

absolutely lovely
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: paulr on 20 March 2016, 07:02:53 PM
 :-bd =D> :-bd =D>

Glad you enjoyed your trip to NZ :)
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: marshall1945 on 20 March 2016, 07:09:42 PM
thanks. If it was closer I would go often. I intend to go in a couple of years though and see some bits of North and South island that we did not get round too, plus lots more beer and wine (plus the pick your own cherries were awesome!)
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: paulr on 20 March 2016, 07:12:22 PM
If you are passing through Wellington next time I'm sure we could organise a game ;)
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: Ithoriel on 20 March 2016, 07:23:06 PM
Those are great.

I always feel Adler look weird until you paint them because the proportions are odd, yours look brilliant!
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: Techno on 20 March 2016, 07:31:50 PM
 8)
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: marshall1945 on 20 March 2016, 07:36:44 PM
Adler proportions have changed over the years - I started buying them when they first came out. Here is brief post on the old question about whether Adler heads are too large

http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/adler-figures-heads-too-big.html (http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/adler-figures-heads-too-big.html)
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: Zippee on 20 March 2016, 08:16:33 PM
I agree with you - I also have been purchasing Adler since those early days in 1984? 5? something like that - bloody long time ago now anyway  :o

I remember my first batch an clearly being able to discern (and paint) the eagle of the shako - not a shapeless blotch but an actual eagle. At that moment several thousand H&R went in the swap bin at the next show. Of course back then I could see the eagle shako plate with my own eyes, not through glasses and magnifiers.

getting old, not all its cracked up to be - I believe I may have been miss-sold on the concept  :(
Title: Re: 6mm French Napoleonic line cavalry
Post by: marshall1945 on 20 March 2016, 09:19:51 PM
my first batch was in 1986 having just bought a huge French and Russian army in H&R  :'(. Finally sold all them off unpainted a couple of years ago on ebay! only painted a few units before I came across Adler then there was no way I was going to put time in on H&R figures