Painted Highlanders
07 Jul 2020
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Painted highlanders: officer, sergeant, and a unit deployed two-ranks deep.
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Highlander command figures
27 May 2020
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Realizing that command figures be a much needed addition to my range of toy soldiers, I decided to sculpt a Highlander officer and a sergeant. British and French line infantry officers should follow at some future time… Planning ahead, I started with sculpting a mannequin that I would use as a base for the masters [...]
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First Highlanders figures now available
04 Dec 2018
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After some time since I posted the pictures of my Government Highlander master (see here), here come my first two Highlanders figures. The poses are maybe a bit conventional, but all in all well suited for setting up a regular infantry war game unit... I painted a couple of figures in the Black Watch, or [...]
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Firing line!
11 Oct 2018
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Having painted a sufficient number of my British regulars, I could not resist deploying them three ranks deep to form a firing line, and have them discharge a deadly volley against an unseen enemy, perhaps the French, or perhaps a yelling host of frenzied Jacobite clansmen… The well-trained regulars have already delivered a few controlled [...]
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Highlanders!
26 Sep 2018
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The rugged mountaineers of the Highlands of Scotland were the first British regular infantry units to be employed in petite guerre operations. As such, Highlanders make a most natural addition to my range. Sculpting my first Highlander figure has been a bit of a challenge for a number of reasons. The first obvious problem consisted [...]
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More Redcoats
20 Jan 2018
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I have just released three more Redcoats, and have now enough British regular infantry figures to recreate realistic battle situations. Yet more close-combat fighting poses are in the making, and hopefully will soon be ready to join their comrades-in-arms… I have sculpted the kneeling figure's master converting one of my standing Redcoats, and fitted it [...]
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Redcoats resin castings
10 Nov 2017
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After a rather long while since I posted the pictures of my first three British regular infantry masters, here come the first Redcoats resin castings... As I have anticipated in an earlier post, I decided to do away with the complexities associated with single-part molding, and opted for the more conventional, but altogether simpler, approach [...]
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Redcoats! Being British line infantrymen of the War of the Austrian Succession
04 Aug 2017
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Here are the masters of my first British line infantrymen, or Redcoats, as they would have appeared in the 1740s, at the time of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Jacobite Uprising. The primary (body) pose is that of a standing man equipped with the basic infantryman’s kit consisting of broad shoulder strap [...]
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Flintlock muskets
07 Jan 2017
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Here is the master of a French trade gun (Fusil de Chasse), made of balsa wood, A+B putty, lead foil, styrene sheet, and sewing pins for the barrel and ramroad. Below is a white-metal casting of the same. Since the lock is the most complex part of the musket, I have used locks removed from scrap [...]
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