SPECIAL THANKS. I would like to thank Paul Watson for his sponsorship of several lead figure collections on this blog. Having decided to clear his spare/surplus figures, he generously forwarded them on with no other requirement than they deserved to be restored. I would also like to mention George S. Mills, who kindly furnished a quantity of plastic figures which greatly enhanced several collections.
Additional Thanks. To Tim of the MegablitzandMore blog for supplying some interesting figures towards my WW2 Soviet Army, and to Mark of ManOfTin Blog for a horde of Airfix WW2 figures.

Monday, 15 February 2021

A Royal Artillery Crew (Conversion Project)

In my spares box was a lead figure with a backpack, I also had two more figures in gaiters, and a kneeling figure with a broken rifle. Decided to raise a colonial service artillery company. Replaced the arms and carved some gaiters on the kneeling figure. Milliput was used for three more backpacks, shoulder belts, and ammo pouches. Fixed some home-cast pith helmets. On file I had several nice photos of toy soldiers manning guns in blue tunic and buff breeches, here is my representation.

MGB






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    1. Thanks Mark, its always nice to have things fairly difficult to use turned into something very useful.
      Michael

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  2. What a beautiful unit! The natives are in real trouble when this crew gets into action!
    Well done Michael!!

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    1. Cheers Brad, I really needed these extra artillerymen, so it was a good project.
      Michael

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