horses – Pat's 1:72 Military Diorama's

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US Cavalry

ACW. First up! Thanks to all those who gave encouraging comments on my recent WWI effort, it was touch and go whether I was going to carry on through. A big thanks to Will for the advice that swayed me to carry on with it when it wasn’t going well. Go check out his work, […]

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Rogers Rangers.

Well I haven’t been idle my folks, I have been working on two dioramas at once, the first one I started kind of faded behind as I was waiting on some fine buildings from O.T.P.Terrain, a nice mob that IRO put me onto. As time went by this simpler one took preference. It’s one I […]

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The Last Big Battle.

The last big battle. 70 cm (28”) x56cm (22”). 245 Orcs, 120 horsemen and 32 Elves and Southern Kingdom Warriors. Well here we are with the last big diorama, hopefully I don’t get carried away again and forget my new mantra keep it small little man!! The idea which most of you will realize came […]

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Cavalry Update.

Cavalry Update. This post is just a brief one showing the cavalry all done and dusted. I finished painting the horsemen yesterday and then realised I had better pin them so I could get some photos. In the end I was able to make up 122 of them that would appear okay, so here they […]

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Waterloo Charge

18” (45cm) x12” (30cm). 3lbs (1.5kg.) Well the Waterloo cavalry charge is finally finished; there are 70 cavalrymen, 64 infantry and 21 Royal Artillerymen and it took me three hours to put it all together. As always there was a nervous start as after putting in half the infantry in the part square I realised […]

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Dutch Red Lancers

This week I finished painting the Zvezda Life Guard Polish Uhlans that I have changed to Dutch Red Lancers, they are a great set with lots of detail so easy to paint. As there are a good number of figures in the set (18), I feel I have enough cavalry as with this lot it […]

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Zvezda Cuirassiers

Well hello, Now I won’t go on about is the problem the world is experiencing at the moment as you would have heard it all by now; I just trust you are all well and coping with it in your own way. This week I have painted up the Vezda Cuirassiers set and they turned […]