What's on your workbench?

[levied troop]

I like the colour you’ve got on those, mine looked a little too bright and glossy (I usually claim it’s just been raining).

[Buff Orpington]

Spent yesterday evening assembling Perry plastic infantry from the War of Colonial Ingratitude. The figures are fine but the instructions could be better. Basically you get shown that each figure needs two arms and a hat plus an optional blanket roll. That's fine for the rank and file but the command sprue is a guessing game. The drummer is easy enough but does he get the hanger that is in his section? There are two standards but only one figure has a cup for one? One figure has a powder horn but no cartridge box. Should he carry the fusil?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

and the Herbs got added..

Herbidacious!!!

(For those who recall a certain 1960s Watch with Mother programme.....)

[Shahbahraz]

iI all. the palm trees are from a Chinese vendor, packs of 15 mixed, and the link is on my blog page.

https://aleadodyssey.blogspot.com/2020/ ... ungle.html

The bases were hand cut from 3mm MDF (I used 3mm mainly because that was what I had available, but also because the extra depth gives better connections when you're pushing stuff into holes in the bases.)

Colour was airbrushed using a base of Tamiya Dark Green XF61, then mixed with Tamiya Nato green, then mixed with Tamiya Desert Yellow for highlights (which aren't showing very well in this pic).

I'll brush off the loose herbs, add some creepers, seal and add some very simple highlighting to the scatter. But it will have to wait until i buy some more paint, I used pretty much two Tamiya paint bottles on this.

[Shahbahraz]

Spent yesterday evening assembling Perry plastic infantry from the War of Colonial Ingratitude. The figures are fine but the instructions could be better. Basically you get shown that each figure needs two arms and a hat plus an optional blanket roll. That's fine for the rank and file but the command sprue is a guessing game. The drummer is easy enough but does he get the hanger that is in his section? There are two standards but only one figure has a cup for one? One figure has a powder horn but no cartridge box. Should he carry the fusil?

I had similar questions and then decided I was overthinking it. So I figured there weren't enough cups in stock to go round.. that some old-fashioned sorts might like to retain a powder horn for good quality powder for the pan, and the drummer can go hang.. (or not).

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Hi Buff/Shah,

That's fine for the rank and file but the command sprue is a guessing game. The drummer is easy enough but does he get the hanger that is in his section?

Yes, the sprue is actually quite well laid out in that respect.

There are two standards but only one figure has a cup for one?

If you are referring to the cylinder one of the officers carries on his right hip, that is a container/canteen, not a cup for the standard pole (the arms wouldn't let you position the pole there anyway); colour belts were not introduced until the end of the century.

One figure has a powder horn but no cartridge box. Should he carry the fusil?

He also has a bullet bag underneath the horn, so yes.

When looking at the rear of the sprue, the officers/ensigns are the figures with the longer coats; the sergeants and the drummer all have much shorter coat tails. Alan Perry seems convinced that, for the Saratoga campaign, officers retained their cocked hats, rather than the light infantry/dragoon style crested hat-cap worn by the rank-and-file, so there aren't enough of these for the officers as well. I'm not so sure, as it would have marked them out too much, but hey-ho......

Anything else?

[Jeremy]

Hephalumps for the Shiny Sticks project.

[Buff Orpington]

Brendan, thanks for the information. That helps a lot.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

My pleasure - nice to see someone else getting into AWI.

[garyp]

More SYW troops, probably for Ayton. I know I've got enough, but I can't seem to stop myself.