Lysette - Finished

Tacticon is the big reason I haven't posted in a bit. Getting everything ready for classes and the competition just eats up my time. I did manage to finish Lysette for the painting competition at Tacticon. Up until the judging I thought I had done a pretty good job on her. But in the end she only managed to get a bronze. I was rushed so I left off the sabretasche and belts, I wasn't confident that I would be able to paint them and attach them without messing something up. From the judging standpoint I imagine that they didn't even notice that the scabbard was missing. I do actually agree with the judges, I think I was just to close to the piece at that point and I missed some of the flaws. I'm going to paint another one up but I will do a different Hussar uniform. So here are a couple of pictures:

Again you can purchase Lysette and Louie XIX or XIX.v from Rastl World Minis

Sunday Painting - Lysette - With Clothes!

Well, I didn't add clothes to her but I did get quite a bit down on the clothes she is wearing. I have been painting her up wearing the uniform of the 4th Hussars which wore a green dolman and a red pelisse with black fur trim on the pelisse. I'll probably paint up a couple more in my favorite different French hussar uniforms. Right now I'm just trying to concentrate on getting her finished and ready for the convention. I also have one other entry that I need to finish up for Tacticon as well. Here are the final results of Sunday Painting.

Remember you can purchase Lysette from: Rastl World Minis

Lysette - Fleshing Out

I finally had some time to work on Lysette yesterday. Her skin is pretty close to being finished and I have blocked out the colors for the Dolman and the Pelisse. She's starting to look pretty good. Hopefully I'll be able to get another painting session in today. I need to pull out some of my Perry Napoleonics so you can see how well she matches up with them.

Here are the pictures:

CMPA Lysette - Rastl World Miniatures - Getting Started

I did manage to get a real live metal casting of Lysette on Saturday. I have cleaned her up and given her and the two Louis XIXs a coat of white primer. I hope to start work on her this week but I haven't decided which French Hussar uniform I want to paint with this first one. Its just nice to finally have this miniature in my hands.

You can purchase Lysette here; Rastl World Minis

First up Louis XIX.5 - sculpted by Jason Wiebe. He is a solid little lump of metal.

 Next is Louis XIX - this one to match this version of Lysette sculpted by Chad Hoverter

 And then Lysette (with sword arm attached but minus the sabretache).

 On the left is the spure with the sword arm and sabretache. On the right is a sabretache ready to be attached. The straps do need to be bent to fit into the right position. There are two rings on her sword belt that the straps need to at least touch. I did a little more filing to thin that portion of the strap so it doesn't create to much of a bump when I glue it on.

Lysette is sculpted to match up with the Perry Miniatures range of Napoleonics.

Now primed up and ready for paint