Right
Here’s the obligatory Sprue shot
What’s nice about these
Airfix kits is they always give you two options. In this case it’s a choice of legs - standing firing or kneeling firing. I’ve chosen kneeling, so I’ve got a nice pair of standing legs for the spares box.
As I said in my introduction, I’m going to convert his position slightly.
Since reading the Sharpe books I realised that skirmishers rarely used these by-the-book positions so I’m going to try to make him look a bit more natural and under pressure, by having him more hunched and steadying his arm on his left knee.
Here goes!
The first thing to do is to cut wedges out from behind his knees so they can fold more
I use a jeweller’s saw for this rather than a razor saw, as it doesn’t clog with the plastic and it’s possible to cut curved lines if I want -it’s not important for these cuts to be straight, anyway.
Here’s his other leg treated in the same way, although I had to bend his ankle as well to compensate for the change of angle of his lower leg
And here’s the before and after
thanks for looking,
Neil