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Oh yes, this is splendid. I remember when people were submitting pix of her. She was a very pretty woman and you have managed to preserve that. Nice job!

Einion is my "colour expert", but here we are not looking at a colour, but a dye. Like the cochineal dye that produced the officer's scarlet coatees (O.R.'s would get theirs stained with this dye later in the century) but also, on occasion, the crimson for their sashes, madder could produce...

That was quick! Thanks again. I am impressed by the fact that these are recreations. That explains the missing saltire as an oversight and the use of the lion-on-crown finials, which did not appear until 1858 when the Crimean honours had been awarded, rather than the old, correct, spear-point...

Wow, Roger, how cool are these? Better than any verbal description. What is your source, please, so that I can sneak off and get a copy. I am curious abut the royal colour (changed to "queen's" in 1892, not 1881 as I guessed above) of the 3rd battalion on our right. It carries the "jaundiced...

The only British colours carried at Inkerman were those of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, valiantly defended (our side always 'valiantly" defended) during the retreat from the sandbag battery. The action is described in the Men-At-Arms volume on the Grenadier Guards, among other places...

Yes, I think that you are right, Rob, though Findlater's fame arose from his winning the VC at Dargai Heights in 1897, where he was wounded so severely in both ankles that he had to sit, but continued to pipe. Less well known is the fact that he shocked Horse guards by using his fame as the...

Yes, I think that this is a real head, too. Also, the guy tends to be a mouth breather, due to his cauliflower nose, is hypertensive as shown by the bulging scalp and neck veins and probably has a significant clinical depression. If anyone has a friend with these problems, you may want to check...

Cool figures. The likenesses are amazing!

Thanks Denes. I hadn't even though about it being incorporated into the mold!

This is great, and the bronze is particularly impressive. Testor's Dullcoat is still the best shine killer that I know.

Very nice indeed!

Got mine yesterday and it was above my expectations. It obviously invites comparison with the Lost Battalion figure of the same scale, date, regiment and rank, and there is no doubt that LB has the more obviously appealing figure, with the head held high, shouting encouragement and holding the...

Chippy: Matt Swann has been maintaining a website on this product for years: http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html It will tell you more about the stuff, including why Klear is so hard to find in the U.K. , than you will ever to want to know!

Yes, Crow Indian. I think that it is also appropriate that to Christians and Jews, it is one of the names of Lucifer.

Well, in the good old days, we starving, bohemian artists used to gather in an attic atelier, where we would pursue our passion by the north light cast by a handy skylight, but that was then. Nowadays, it seems to make more sense to paint our tiny figures under the same light by which they will...

Ah, you poor guys! My heart bleeds for you! I'm just back into figure painting, but for years I have been a keeper/breeder of praying mantises. And if you breed mantises seriously, then you also breed cockroaches for food, and house flies --I just got in 20G of pupae from SpiderPharm. Yum! At...

This is quite a common practice in the U.S. Carl, and you will not uncommonly find a used book listed on Amazon merchants for $15-$30, say, with a final merchant's price of $1,000 as a "place marker". Sometimes, though, the price jacks are real. W.Y. Carman's book on Indian Army Uniforms...

Future furniture polish is a popular way of adding a gloss coat among modelers. Don't use some other kind of furniture polish instead, though! Future is essentially an acrylic glaze; the others are not. If you would prefer a method that lets the acrylic dry shiny, though, instead of glazing the...

Yep, newly back to figures after thirty years. This a better time for painting figures and getting feedback than for a lot of discussion, and I'm working on that, but I do have a time-limited question. Micro-Mark are holding their annual sale (Yay!) which includes their DIY photo etch kit. It...

Yep, newly back to figures after thirty years. This a better time for painting figures and getting feedback than for a lot of discussion, and I'm working on that, but I do have a time-limited question. Micro-Mark are holding their annual sale (Yay!) which includes their DIY photo etch kit. It...