The Loose Association of Wargamers

1 battalion of Hungarian SYW completed - IR2

9th Prussian RIR completed yesterday

The infantry are Les Higgins British rifleman. The standard bearer is a LH officer who has had his arm adjusted and a pin added for the flag pole. The flag is made from a fizzy pop can.

The Officer and Drummer are Hinton Hunt figures

A veritable cornucopia of toy soldiery.

Lovely Hungarians, Bro.

Gorgeous Prussians, Mark.

Iain

Old School as it was meant to be - everyone bar the command figures playing "air musket"!

That standard bearer conversion merits some closer scrutiny - he actually looks like he's struggling to hold it upright in a stiff breeze. Very well done.

Lovely Hungry'uns and Prusskis!

I was just mulling something over... I need a couple of batteries of Wellingtonic Don Cossack Horse Artillery, but there isn't a cat in hell's chance that Tony Barton will ever model them. They wore the regulation Don Cossack uniform of short, single-breasted blue jacket, blue overall trousers and a busby with red bag and white plume and cords.

It suddenly occurred to me that the AB Polish Horse Artillery are quite a good match, as they're also wearing short jackets, busbies and trousers. I've got some Polish artillery on my blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/10/31/ ... b-figures/

I'd need to clip off the pompom and epaulettes and they'd lack the plume and cords for the busby, but I think they'd look the part. What do you chaps think?

Only if you greenstuff the plumes and cords.

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:47 pm Only if you greenstuff the plumes and cords.

That's above my effort-ceiling.

Yeah, if paintings are to be believed, the bloody Russkis don't seem to have understood the concept of 'campaign dress'. However, I'm not convinced that they left the plumes and cords in situ all the flippin' time when nobody else did.

Does anybody else do Cossack artillery Mark - can you clip heads from something else?

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:50 pm Does anybody else do Cossack artillery Mark - can you clip heads from something else?

I think Old Glory 15s did them, but I want four crews, not 15.

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:26 pm

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:47 pm Only if you greenstuff the plumes and cords.

That's above my effort-ceiling.

Yeah, if paintings are to be believed, the bloody Russkis don't seem to have understood the concept of 'campaign dress'. However, I'm not convinced that they left the plumes and cords in situ all the flippin' time when nobody else did.

Or even correct heads but on different bodies in the ab range.