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Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:07 am 42mm naval infantry for Toscana. I have a major decision to make, do I leave the pompoms white or add a touch of red to the overall blue & white uniform?

Red might make them look a bit French (and who wants that), what about a nice light blue?

Definitely orange.

That'll make them look Dutch.

Melon green.
All the cool cats wear it.

I'm obviously going to have to organise a beauty contest.

Today I have mostly been sticking the foliage to another 82 trees. A track-navvy came into the signal box and asked what I was doing.

"Gardening."

Somewhat astonishingly he seemed perfectly satisfied with that answer.

Probably just grateful you didn't prefix it with "uphill".

Being playing around fixing broken bayonets on some Hintons using bayonets from HaT plastic figures, super glue. PVA, and Milliput.

A comparison before the bayonet replacement.



The join has so far passed the wiggle the bayonet test. The bendy nature of HaT plastic puts less strain on the joint than a more rigid solution.



The HaT bayonet is an almost exact match for the HH one. Once painted it will hard to tell the difference.

Good work.

Surprising how ropy the castings look 'in the raw'.