Part of the 'scratting around for interest in painting' effort.I've tried several times to get ACW armies going, coming across a couple of A4 boxes of Rose ACW figures made me think 'why not?'
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Simplified as per my current norm. The uniform blue looks a lot darker on the figures than in the picture.
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I initially tried to get a full 6 x 6 quota of stars on the flag; best I could manage was 5 x 5.
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Because the black doesn't show up very well on the actual figures I didn't bother painting the peak of the kepis black. Honest, on the real thing you don't notice it!
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I'll see how it goes. Might get another unit done before Christmas then see about cavalry and artillery.
I remember ordering some of these and being disappointed because they where much small er than the Hinchcliffe I was collecting at the time .
ReplyDeleteIf you put the marching ACW figure next to it's Airfix counterpart they mix happily - hard to tell them apart. Yet I've seen some of the Rose 20mm figures advertised on Ebay as 28mm!
DeleteSplendid Rob…
ReplyDeleteI had some of these many years ago… I remember they did go well with my Airfix toys
All the best. Aly
I'm seriously thinking about digging up any Airfix survivors to see if I can add the odd figure - Airfix did a bugler plus a running figure with one hand up who might be useful in a command group. Plus there was an Airfix magazine article including flag designs - I did do a few standard bearers so these might be pulled into service...
DeleteI have so many of these running guys with hand raised, I formed them into a brigade of 4 regiments. But they do make fine flag bearers. My method was to bent the right arm around to the front (hot water method), poke a hole through the hand and follow through (if I could) with another through the other hand (after trimming away the musket. Then shove modelling wire through both. You get a remarkably durable flag staff.
DeleteThe flags I've hand drawn on paper, mirror imaged with about 3mm gap to accommodate the flag pole. Instead of square or rectangle, I make the flags lozenge shaped, so that when wrapped around the flagpole and glued together, you get a much better 'drape'. These days I colour the flags with felt-tip pen, and paint on the stars.
Back in the 70s I used a sort of draughtman's linen for Airfix flags - it was slightly blue in colour and (I think) sized with starch. Every now and then a figure turns up in a box... As these Rose figures have flags already on the figure I just hand paint them.
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