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I agree with all of the above, but that will not be enough to make you succeed in selling the exact same goods as your competitors who are already well known. Try finding small European figure makers that you can run as "exclusive" lines to mix with the regular manufacturers. Use bigger and...

Hi,Keith: I agree with you that this is a Black watch badge. So far as I can discover, though, this regiment differed from all those that had an eight-point star surmounted by a crown in that the crown is immediately above the motto on the oval, but immediately below the...

The Almark book, French Napoleonic Line Infantry, by Emir Bukhari (I think that you can still pick up a used copy on Amazon), gives imperial green as the colour for the facings of the first eight line regiments with copper buttons for the first four regiments of each group of eight and white for...

What a fine job! I assume that you are basing it on Pierre Turner's fine pic in the second Crimean Osprey. (196). The colour of the kilt is just right. The "modern", more vivid dyes for kilts did not replace the traditional ones until after 1860. One very minor suggestion. Turner does not...

This is really nicely done and takes me back to when I was middle-aged! The badge on the plinth leaves no doubt about his regiment. I assume that it was included with the kit? That was a very attractive custom for a while, now seemingly reserved for regimental gift shops. Congrats!

Treasure Trove! I started looking at your site as I was about to go to be last night and spend over an hour exploring. As a token of appreciation, perhaps I can throw a little light on print #18 in La Uniformidad de la Guarnicion de Cadiz en 1810...

Not only a pleasure to look at, but good lesson for me. I have no doubt that the coat used by the British infantry at the beginning of the nineteenth century was based on the Austrian (NOT the French!) pattern, but I had not realized that the stand up collar went back so far. Back to the books...

Great as usual, and 75 mm is easier on the pocketbook, though harder on the eyesight, as some have mentiioned. I was particularly glad to see that as a Peninsular figure, he is using one of the old-style cell phones ("mobiles") rather than the much smaller ones in use at Waterloo.

That' very interesting, Pete. I tried your reference in your earlier post on the shako, but couldn't get anything specific, though http://brtdesignportfolio.com/88th/website/drummersBRITindex.htm was very interesting. We do have a fair amount of information about the headgear of drummer boys and...

Tradition of London still has a brick store at: 5a Shepherd Street, London W1J 7HW, You can find their phone number on the internet if you want to know if they have what you want.

These are getting better and better! :) The sculpting is crisp, lifelike and accurate in detail (my only very minor quibble, that when the Belgic shako was issued in 1812, officers stopped wearing the bicorne, is easily overcome by giving the boy a stovepipe shako). What is particularly...

Were there several different editions of this book? Mine has 13pp on horse painting, or about 10% of the book! :)

Yes, Roger, i have used the series 33 and found them to be excellent, but the American company does not seem to sell them, at least yet, so I shall continue to buy from England. So tell us, Debbie, are you in any way connected with Legacy Arts Products? Forgive me for saying so, but your opening...

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing this "coming to life", too! The folds in the cloak should provide a dramatic effect. Good luck!

Beautiful job and a must -have for me, even though I find 54mm figures harder and harder to see! This is a faithful copy, except for the minor detail of the separate (?) cover on the forage cap's peak, of Fig. 50 in Michael Barthorp's British Infantry Uniforms Since 1660.

I hope that a Hungarian speaking member can help me solve this mystery. According to Wikipedia, who got it from the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the English word "shako" is csákós süveg ("peaked cap"). I had no trouble finding "süveg" as "hat, but when I lopped the "s" off "csákós"...

Ah, ubi sunt, where are the snows of yesteryear? I am so old that I well remember when everyone painted with oils or Humbrol enamels in those nasty little tins and looked askance at the newfangled acrylics. I have tried several of these sets nd found them very effective, though I can never...

Thanks for letting us look, Ruslan.

First, great job on the figure! Second, rhe correct color for virtually all blue uniforms of the light dragoons, hussars and Royal Horse Artillery was what Y.W. Carman calls "basic blue", identical to the very dark blue in the photo above. Here are the references: Will Hutchison et al...

Yes, you'll have to cut them off and apply one spike ("prick") to the back of each spur. And for your further information, this piece is known technically as a "U-shaped thingy with arrowhead points". :sneaky: