Oh dear, two months since my last post on this, but I have not been idle, just not typing.
I know I already have another 4 figures on the go for this epic, (and there IS progress being made with them ,which I shall report soon), but I really feel the need for a casualty or two in the front row.
I found this picture on tinternet and it brought home how many there would have been by this stage of the battle.
In the centre there’s one guy who seems to be calling on his mobile for air support….
Also of note is the raggedy angles of the muskets, which I shall bear in mind.
I’m not going down the full-on gory mutilation path as described in the Sharpe books-we’ll have to assume it’s grape shot and sharpshooters that’s responsible.
When I got the first e-bay batch I used a spare pair of gaitered legs with arms from the spares box to make this guy.
The torso is Milliput, but then I got a whole load more fusilier bits in the next evilBay batch so I’m planning some more casualties now. I have a few pairs of suitable legs in the spares box, so in the spirit of
using up the stash I am going to see how many I can come up with.
I’m never going to get this finished, am I?
And then, looking through the spares box I found this guy, who dates from 1974 or 75, I presume.
I think he might have been intended as 17th Lancer casualty when I was doing Charge of the Light Brigade conversions – inspired by Sid Horton in
Airfix Magazine. So, as I am
using up the stash I thought I really should include him in my ‘butcher’s bill’.
Underneath the pink Plasticene (the remains of which I removed with white spirit) it turns out he’s mostly Multipose Eighth Army. Annoyingly there’s a lot of filling and sculpting going to be required, but I’m committed now.
I pinned the arms and legs together this time, and changed his hands and head, and his boots for gaitered ones
Duxieme Porte-Aigle is almost ready for paint and I will post pics of him soon. I have been working on the others and will post them when there is enough progress to show.
Thanks for watching
Neil