[MOC] My grande armée

[CDKiii]

gentlmen,

After a little break to participate to the different summer contests, and i'd like to thank those who get the idea of critics contest, which makes us discuss a lot, i get back to my first love:

always pushing forward to get a realistic "legoish" grande armée, i finished my heavy cavalry.

20230711_071934 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr (my collection, mostly hussars)

So i present you my french carabinier

20230829_231938 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

Spoiler

20230829_231952 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

20230820_165346 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

and my cuirassier

20230815_024132 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

Spoiler

20230815_024046 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

20230815_024101 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

20230815_024326 by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

i hope you don't mind the custom parts i made.

 

PS: i 've never really known if my napoleonic posts should be posted here or on the custom minifigure forum. please let me know if it bother you i put it here.

[Rogue Redcoat]

Very nice  are you going to give them horses?

[CDKiii]

21 minutes ago, Rogue Redcoat said:

Very nice  are you going to give them horses?

thanks,

yes, but i'm waiting an order.

i made a saddle for hussars, and they will have the same.

napoléon en tenue de chasseur by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

[Rogue Redcoat]

Aye, very nice do they have a place to sling their muskets or a place for their saddle holsters if they carry pistols, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't really know the Napoleonic wars very well ;)

[CDKiii]

4 hours ago, Rogue Redcoat said:

Aye, very nice do they have a place to sling their muskets or a place for their saddle holsters if they carry pistols, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't really know the Napoleonic wars very well ;)

Yes they do.

My V2 saddle has the clip.

https://flic.kr/p/2oDw6QU

[GeoBrick]

Grand effort there.
Are your custom parts handmade, or 3D printed? Or do they come from a third party seller, and you paint them up (splendidly I may add)?

[CDKiii]

8 hours ago, GeoBrick said:

Grand effort there.
Are your custom parts handmade, or 3D printed? Or do they come from a third party seller, and you paint them up (splendidly I may add)?

Thank you.

they come from a third party seller: Me.

i make them with resin 3D printer.

[Mister Phes]

On 8/30/2023 at 6:24 PM, CDKiii said:

After a little break to participate to the different summer contests

Awww!  But you didn't use a custom minfig for your entry in the Return of the Classic Pirates Contest.

[NOD]

On 8/30/2023 at 10:24 AM, CDKiii said:

I hope you don't mind the custom parts i made.

I really like the custom parts you made and painted.

Have you already voted?

 

31 minutes ago, Mister Phes said:

Awww!  But you didn't use a custom minfig for your entry in the Return of the Classic Pirates Contest.

You're right. With a custom minifig he would have got my vote. Of course, it can also be that he thought that it didn't fit the Classic Pirates Contest.

[CDKiii]

4 minutes ago, NOD said:

I really like the custom parts you made and painted.

 

 

Have you already voted?

 

 

 

You're right. With a custom minifig he would have got my vote. Of course, it can also be that he thought that it didn't fit the Classic Pirates Contest.

 

I didn't vote, i submited an entry. But i will for the main contest.

And if a contest on XIXe century army is setting up, be sure i'd participate.

[Mister Phes]

2 hours ago, NOD said:

Of course, it can also be that he thought that it didn't fit the Classic Pirates Contest.

It states in the rules that customs are acceptable... so unless he didn't read the rules...

2 hours ago, CDKiii said:

I didn't vote, i submited an entry. But i will for the main contest.

You can still vote in both categories if you submit an entry.   You can even assign one vote to your own entry.

But what you can't do is update your vote after you've voted.

[CDKiii]

3 minutes ago, Mister Phes said:

It states in the rules that customs are acceptable... so unless he didn't read the rules...

i submit a mini entry, and the main topic was pirates, i made a pirate.

I thought (maybe wrongly) that we had to be close to the old gold age of LEGO pirate.

But once again, thanks for your nice comments.

[Mister Phes]

1 hour ago, CDKiii said:

I thought (maybe wrongly) that we had to be close to the old gold age of LEGO pirate.

Yes, you did the right thing...  I was actually responding to NOD.

[CDKiii]

On 8/30/2023 at 12:44 PM, Rogue Redcoat said:

Very nice  are you going to give them horses?

And ther, heavy cavalry charging the ennemy.

I made a custom hand to allow them to have the sword in the right position

cuirassier chargeant by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

cavalerie lourde chargeant by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr

 

[Rogue Redcoat]

Aye, very nice, perhaps just a different face for one of the figures ;)

[CDKiii]

46 minutes ago, Rogue Redcoat said:

Aye, very nice, perhaps just a different face for one of the figures ;)

You're right. I need to buy more different faces.

[CDKiii]

hi,

still working on the imperial grande armée,

i present you a first lieutenant of the chasseurs à pieds de la garde impériale. Let's look at the bearskin, which is slightly different than the famous one of the grenadier:

it is a little shorter, with no plate badge nor "cul de singe" ( literal translation would be monkey's megablocks, maybe to refer at the red bottom of baboons), the red plate with white grenade at the top.

Officier des chasseurs à pieds de la garde impériale by LA BRIQUE  DE CAMBRONNE, sur Flickr