Firstly welcome back to Carl, it's been a while!
...and for me at long last I have my first finished piece of 2021, a lot later than anticipated, and certainly not what I expected to be up first!
However, I have managed to keep up the 'paint on brush' for 84 days straight now which must be an all time record for me, so there are quite a few things that are very nearly completed.
This is an objective marker I have been wanting to make for ages since I first picked up a spare French finial, and I'm sure it's nothing to do with watching Sharpe's Eagle & Sharpe's Regiment again recently on DVD?
Quite a simple piece, it is just a French Napoleonic 'Eagle' from Warlord Games attached to a suitable brass wire flagpole, which is then inserted into an mdf base and given some extra stability by adding a small pile of rocks. The remnants of the Tricolor are made from ordinary printer paper wrapped around the pole, secured and hardened with thinned PVA and then cut into a ragged edge with plastic cutters - the metal ribbons of the finial were then made to look battle worn too with various tools.
Although intended as an objective marker for the Chosen Men rules from the 'blue cover' Osprey Wargames series, it could easily see use in Sharpe Practice or any other 28mm Napoleonic games - this should give Carl's 'Frenchies' something worth fighting for, I just need to get cracking on some of my 95th Rifles to contest it!
