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Thanks Frank - I appreciate the boost. I am enjoying the style and colour of the Napoleonic period a lot right now. Colin

Thanks Peter - here is an update. Uniform is just undercoated. Face is acrylic and bicorne is oil. Colin

My latest bust. Gourgaud was the best known of Napoleon's Officiers d'Ordonnance, senior aides who were dressed in amazing costume ball uniforms of cornflower blue and red trimmed with tons of silver lace. Colin

Thank you gentlemen. Colin

Thanks very much. Colin

Basically done exc some minor touch ups and a turned wood base. Colin

Progress

Posted before elsewhere in site - My Great Uncle George's last letter home to a friend. He was in the 19th Lancs Fusiliers (3rd Salford Pals) and the letter refers to the battalion's attack on the Leipzig Redoubt south of Thiepval on the First Day of the Somme. He died of wounds received at Ovillers la Boiselle 8 days after sending this letter. The letter was a gift of the recipient's great niece, who I met on the internet. Incredibly generous. Colin

Painting started

Holy crap! Is that stick he is holding a magic wand? Must freaking well be. In awe! Thanks Chris. Colin

Thanks Chris. Put it down to 40 years of practice. By now I should be OK at this :-) fun hobby though. Colin

Sculpting done. Painting commences next week. Colin

Jerome - profile view. Maybe not unlike your print....luckily! Thanks again Colin

Thanks Jerome - that is great! And luckily I think my effort complies with this image fairly well...within the limits of artistic license. Here is an upate. Colin

Thanks again. Merci Jérôme - I have not seen the article. I have seen 2 other legitimate portraits of Fournier (attached). The engraving is of an older man, post-war after he had been granted the title Sarlovese. I am not 100% sure the sculpture is Fournier but think it is. I also add a picture if the pelisse in progress. Colin

Thanks gents. Yes it is scratch built from oven baked polymer clay. I am using 3 different portraits of Fournier to get his appearance, so it's not surprising to me that you see differences from the most famous one that I posted above. Also I am self-taught, meaning I have limitations on my portrait sculpting skills. Over all I am pretty happy so far. Here is is complete shako and the beginnings if his torso. He will be holding the shako in his right hand and will have a pelisse over his left shoulder. Colin

Great figures well painted, I always see a well painted wargame army as evidence of extraordinary patience. Colin

My latest project is a bust of General Fournier, infamous Duellist and model for Gabriel Feraud in Conrad's story "The Duel" and Ridley Scott's award winning first film "The Duellists." Colin

I find this in poor taste. Maybe it's just me. Colin http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Scarce-Original-German-Grave-Marker-D-Day-29-Normandy-Soldiers-Iron-Cross-/161325142022?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item258fba5006

Thanks Peter. I am a great admirer of Dallaire and all his crew from 1994. I sculpted his portrait in miniature a couple of years ago and am now putting a similar one together of Diagne. Colin

He's what my cabinet looks like. Colin

Thanks gents - very kind and motivating. I appreciate it. Colin

Thanks for the encouragement. Here is the finished model. Colin

Approved unanimously by security council today. http://www.agencefrance-presse.com/en/node/2369708 "The resolution, proposed by Jordan and unanimously approved, notes "with the deepest regret" that "the family of Captain Diagne never received, after his death, any expressions of appreciation from the headquarters of the United Nations." Diagne's story is well told in the extraordinary documentary "Ghost of Rwanda" available on YouTube. Recognition long overdue for an extraordinary man. Colin

Thanks Peter