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The gun carriage colour question is something I rather feel has been avoided for many years, with countless authors merely repeating what the previous one said. Obviously I'm not against making an artistic interpretation, and after all, we make models to please ourselves, so this is less about...

But perhaps not quite so compact as the completed model you show : when that gun goes off the trail will recoil straight into the limber wheel,and the chap with the rammer near the muzzle is quite likely to get burnt ! I have some small experience of firing loaded cannon ( abroad) , and they...

Steve, Thanks for taking my suggestions in the spirit in which they were offered, but I can't actually see the difference : the tubing needs to go round once, not twice as you have there( if I can see that properly) and the front bow needs to go right up to the lip of the bell. Otherwise it...

While it’s still at the CAD stage, perhaps you might think again about the trumpet. It’s likely that in the 1770s they were still using the single-loop long model trumpet , as shown in the Troiani picture. The short model, double loop type doesn’t appear in any pictures that I’ve seen until...

Well done, the trumpet is now a practical instrument.

I hope these illustrations might show what I mean , if I can get them to show... Here's the short model trumpet ( tubing goes round twice) from the Bardin regulations of 1812 :~ And another showing a Garde Chasseur trumpeter in blue, a slightly more naive drawing, but you can see the doubled...

This is wonderful work , most impressive. So I hate to mention the awkward fact that on a short model trumpet like that , the tubing went around twice. If it was the length you've shown, you could only get about two or three notes out of it , making cavalry calls impossible. The tubing needed to...

I'd add to that : I have been sculpting in polymer clay for fifty years , and you must only use water based paints as the first coat. The medium in any enamel or oil paint actually dissolves the clay surface, however well it's fired, and you will end up with a glossy, sticky mess if you use...

I have a British Eb Trumpet in brass, in 1/6th scale. It's not identical to the French model, but at least it's the right scale. I also have it in pewter. pm me if you are interested.

I would suggest that Vallejo Dark Prussian blue is if anything too light , and too vivid to represent Indigo dyed uniforms. All dark blue uniforms, at least until near the end of the 19c , were dyed with Indigo, which creates a very dark purplish blue, often a sort of blue-black. It gets dusty...

It's a tricky area to get dogmatic about, since undoubtedly dye batches would have varied, but there was a standard of colour that suppliers were supposed to achieve.Can't find the reference this instant, but I gather cloth samples exist in Musee de L'Armee showing the desired standards for the...

These are truly fantastic. In a field ( 28mm ) which is notable for rather poor sculpting, with poor proportions in the anatomy, these are at last something quite outstanding. Bravo, I do hope they are a great success : they certainly deserve to be !

This is a superbly sculpted figure, and a nice and unusual subject, beautifully executed. But at the risk of making myself unpopular again ( the last time was about trumpets ! ) the musket is really too small. This figure is from the late 1500s/early 1600s, I presume from his clothing. There...

The pack is black ( oil-painted canvas, so a slight sheen) with white buff straps. The number 42 was probably painted in white on the back.The waterbottle is mid-blue, not too bright, and the ammo pouch( white buff straps on the underside) and the messtin in its oilcloth cover are also black...

As arj says ( thanks for the mention Andrew ), I do have some 1/6th things that might help, such as a hanger hilt. You would have to make the scabbard from plastikard or similar. But just as common would be the bayonet alone, and I have just got some metal castings of 18c bayonets in their...

Sorry , I have been away , hence the delay in replying. Dear CGS, you are entirely correct that the "long model" Eb trumpet you show has only one turn.I am also a baroque trumpet player, and fully understand their construction .You may also have handled the British Eb Duty trumpet, a " short...

Dear Moz, sorry if I cause any bother,truly , and I really don't want to get into a spat. I'm trying to supply otherwise obscure information. But I regret to say trumpets and bugles are one of those things rarely understood by artists, except perhaps by folks who play them. The longer the...

To expand a little , here's a French trumpet of their usual style: this one is actually a bit later, but this model seems to have been in use by the Napoleonic Wars..

Perfectly splendid. I hate to point out that the tube of the trumpet should go around twice, not once. As it is, it would be a very short instrument, and impossible to play much on.

My 1/72nd WW2 figures are pirated more or less continuously by two Ebay sellers from China. I have exhausted all means to stop it. They are selling resin recasts of metal figures, quite blatantly, though of course they don't claim that they are AB. It's fairly apparent that I am not the only...