This time painted up as British infantry and Dragoons.
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| A dozen infantry and five cavalry. |
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| I'm trying to cut down as much as possible on detail, but increasing the command group to officer, standard bearer and bugler eliminates any time gains. |
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| Now, the cavalry. Should have been a 4 man squadron one of whom was an officer. Then another officer to act as a general staff or possibly infantry officer. Then I only painted 1 officer... Horses I'm simplifying by not painting on eyes, blazes or stockings. The casting itself is simpler in the sense non of the figures have carbines... |
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| The officer is from one of the artillery moulds. Need to overpaint the red on his bincoculars! Bugler, all-action pose and has a backpack. |
So although all these figures are meant to be 1901 Germans they fit really well into the 1897 British army.
They are wonderful! I just love looking at these.
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
They do give a feeling of childhood - the second of which I am right in the middle of.
DeleteSplendid parade of charming figures.
ReplyDeleteI think it's probably getting towards time for a 'proper' parade of the current British 1897 army. Must set it up.
DeleteHey Rob,
ReplyDeleteCan you do a post about the homecasting figs? How much do they cost to cast yourself, do you think? They have a lot of charm. It looked like from one post that they had a lot of flash at the mold lines. Interested in hearing more about them.
Keep up the good work!
Alex
Could do, though bit tied up with the Xerxes army thing at the moment - note these are the only 'homecast' figures I do, mostly it's spincasting. One difference is flash - spincasting you can keep the mould tight, dropcasting you often need to keep it looser so you do get more flash. As to costs, I buy my metal in 25 kilo lots so the cost is a lot less than using Prince August or Tiranti metal.
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