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Yellow lace is given by all the sources that I have. I think it normally followed that of the Officers. The Greys officers wore gold, so the men wore yellow. If you read the text in Franklin, he states that the lace was originally white, but changed to yellow in October 1813.

Excellent figures, well-proportioned and finely painted.

Whatever actual material and technique you work with , it's worth remembering that you have to train the mind and eye as well. Draw : and draw a lot. It is the best way to train the eye to understand the shapes that you wish to sculpt in 3D. Any large scale academic art sculptor has to undergo...

He's wearing the 1903 bandolier equipment, so he could be made into a cavalryman with a cap or a helmet, since they used that equipment throughout WW1 and after.The 1903 was also used by some infantry units at Gallipoli in 1915, but in that case with the Wolseley helmet, and probably not wearing...

As Dan's useful pics show, there was quite a lot of variation in insignia on officers tunics. Officers bought their own uniforms, from a designated Regimental tailor, so they vary somewhat from regiment to regiment.

Dear Fabricio, In the 1st picture, the officers have their rank stars on their shoulder straps : this was done to make them less visible to snipers .It became official policy in many Regiments by 1915, though not followed by all officers . In the second, they have the original arrangement ...

This figure is based on the archaeology from the famous wreck raised in the 1980s , and now displayed in the recently opened new museum in Portsmouth. The set he stands on is a fairly notional evocation of the aftercastle rather than a precise model, since I don't think the upperworks survived...

For the Brits, you could do worse than buy the two Ospreys : " The British Army in World War I " Nos. 391 & 402, and " Battle Insignia 1914-18 "No. 182 . They cover the basics. For equipment , the website" karkeeweb " is the best place, with huge pics of genuine original stuff, with...

Wonderful job : what a great piece of work. Perhaps you might call it a bit later than the Somme , since they are wearing box respirators, but what the hell. What matters is the detail and the atmosphere, which is mighty impressive .

This is wonderful and a highly original idea for a painting figure. There's one slight problem: you have interpreted the sword hilt as a cup-hilt rapier : it's not , but rather a simple backsword with a lens-shaped knuckle bow . It's certainly difficult to make out, and a rare kind of sword.(...

I don't think they are machine painted : I belive that can be done for things like markings on model aircraft , but I'm not sure it's possible on an irregular surface like a model head. I believe they are hand painted by workers in the Chinese factories where 1/6th figures are made: there is...

Excellent figure .

My latest horseman in the BIG scale. Mounted figures are something of a problem , since at present there are no good ready-made 1/6th horses. This one is a Cindy horse, thickened and lengthened, then with the surface heavily resculpted with air-drying clay. The horse tack is leather , wood ...

This is a great bust , and you've done it very nicely indeed. But I have mentioned this before : the steel helmets at the time of the Somme battles were apple green , not very dark green: that was the late WW2 version. You could alway cover it in mud...

He's very nice... but that's not a dulcimer , at least not in English usage ! A pair of cymbals. A dulcimer is a stringed instrument, in the form of a soundbox with strings across the top, struck with hammers.

I think most of them did : I investigated the subject a couple of years back. There was a button , surrounded by eight little loops of tracing braid, forming a flower shape . Sometimes black silk , sometimes gold braid , perhaps depending on rank..

Not quite. The Jacobite army was not uniformed in any real sense : they wore a mixture of ordinary civilian clothing ( coats , waistcoats and breeches , some in plaid fabric , some in plain mostly undyed browny-grey colour )and Highland great plaids, which were in a wide variety of tartans...

This is a wonderful job, and the textures , as everyone says, are brilliantly done. And I love the face. In a way , as a 1/6th scale modeller myself, it's surprising you don't go the whole hog and make him with real clothes and kit !

Superb.

What a super pose , a really very nice figure. If I might nitpick ( groan ) he has the three-band Enfield P53, when it might be better if he had the Minie P51. Certainly the P53 was issued before the end of the War , but only really after the major battles, including the Alma and Balaklava. All...