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This is a great bust at a great price. For those of us who do mostly British Army, it should be easy to convert this to a Scottish soldier, say a Black Watch sergeant at Waterloo. Just convert the baldric to a sergeant's sash and the baton to a half pike.... :D

Good stuff, Steve, especially the von Mackensen! I'd love to stop by on Sunday --I used to live close to Folkestone -- but it's getting to be a long swim for an old man, and last time I forgot to turn right at Lizard Point, so I'll talk with you when you get back. :D

"I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received...." Ah, the good old days when wars were actually declared!

This is seriously good! As for the colour of the V.C. ribbon, according to my one and only medal book ("Taffrail", 1956, I bought it new!) "was.... crimson for the Army. The latter colour, really a sort of claret [!] was adopted during the First World War for the Navy, Army and Royal Air Force."

Thanks for the link Roger. I hope that they are on the Cannon St Station side, so that they can see the river.

I guess that most of us in the US heard a bunch of 9/11 related songs on the air yesterday. One that struck me as very good celebrated the bravery of the firemen. That bravery has been celebrated in song and with plaques and statues; there is even a "commemorative painted figure" holding, for...

Memories of the good old days! I spent that time in St leonards next to Hastings and the German bombers that got turned back from London and points north would drop their bombs on us to conserve fuel for the trip home!

Great figure, Stuart, and your second British figure from Inkerman. I hope that this will be a trend! There are a lot of nice details here, including the fact that that he's not wearing a greatcoat like the Grenadier officer. Some idiot thought that it would give the men of the 68th easier...

Beautiful job, Michael. I particularly like the kilt and plaid, and you did a great job with the feather bonnet, though the pix are a little dark for my aging eyes. It's really nice to see that some sculptors are interested in making highlanders, but I do wish that they would spend an extra...

Oh, dear, the egg on my face is running down my neck. I thought that the majpr's colour shown above was so pretty that I didn't notice some of its problems until today when i started making my own. So far as I can tell, the artist based his flag on illustrations and descriptions of guards'...

This is seriously great. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the Call: Allahu akbar Ashad an la ilaha illa llah..... (so I guess that he's Sunni, then). Thanks for sharing.

Hi, Keith! I know where you are with the flag. They were sent to try us modelers! Mellanie's description really took me back. I have done tissue paper and linen-handkerchief flags, stiffened with white glue and have read (by Bill Horan, so it must be true) that you can roll out...

Very cool Sonny! RayToh is Torei, right? I didn't even know that he had fully developed this character! Can you give us a link? Thanks!

Mike. I would not for a moment challenge you superior artistic sensibility, your nose for a good "je ne sais quoi" or your ability to deliver an edifying art lecture to us, the artistically unwashed. Rhetoric is my area of expertise, however, at least to the extent that I taught it in one of...

Yep! :D

I'm glad I'm not the only one with my nose in a book, checking this out, Melanie. :D The short answer to this, Lee, is that according to Hamilton Smith' print, made a little over a year after the event (There are many of his plates in Wellington's Army with commentary by P.J. Haythornthwaite...

There's is little or no conflict between the two descriptions of the weathered jacket. If you Google <port wine color> and check images, you see some nice, grungy, purplish swatches! No doubt about it, he's a member of the Scots Guards. My apologies for missing out the insignia on top of the...

I have to agree that this plan is better than doing nothing, but I also believe that many purchasers of counterfeit kits are well aware of what they are buying. One EBay counterfeiter quoted here as much as stated that his figures are rip offs. Still if such a forum helps only a few uninformed...

Only a guess, but I suspect they were called "prinzessin" because so many princesses liked to dress up in hussar uniforms. Konigin Carola was the Colonel in Chief of the Saxon 19th Hussar Regiment (see Vol2 of Paul Sanders, Imperial German Hussars) and paraded in uniform. It was also fashionable...

This is getting to be an interesting thread! First, Paulo, when you speak of a Sgt Major 1st Foot Scots Fusilier Guards - Crimea, are you referring to the first battalion of the 3rd foot guards, the Scots Fusilier Guards, or the 1st regiment of foot, who in the seventies became the Royal Scots...