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Yes, this is great and one that I shall definitely buy. There is a lot of confusion about all sorts of aspects of the regimental piper. Alas, there is no Pipe Sergeant, either! A three-stripe piper in any Scottish regiment in WWI was simply a sergeant. Sergeant J.Johnston of the G.H. was...

Yep, this all comes down to opinion, but that doesn't mean that we can't advance our opinions with force and conviction! Once you place a uniformed figure in an action pose, you need a back story to justify it, and I'm not sure that the explanation that this sniper isn't sniping today is very...

Now that's scary! I think I'll go and shave my mustache off before I go to bed....

This is amazingly cool, and I don't even like American football very much! What medium did you use?

Then you are out of luck. Gaiters optional, maybe, but long pants for sure. Here's something you might try, though. Simply build a regular pant leg over a puttee on one leg with Sculpey, and see how it goes. Show it to us, and we'll tell you how great it looks, and you can strip off the Sculpey...

O.K. He's cute, but I think that I'll go with two busts of Vanessa Hessler. I'll use them as bookends (gotta start somewhere).

I don't think so; my monitor is calibrated and the pinks are definitely pink. It may be partly due to the ambient light, though. I expect that it will clear up as the painting process continues.

This really is a beautiful sculpt, and if it comes out commercially, might distract me from my usual C19 lads! As regards the trigger guard, perhaps this will help. The guard should extend from the safety lock thumb piece at the back to the front of the bolt handle in front. It should occupy...

Well you hit the nail on the head, anyway, Carl! I Googled <grenadier guard summer uniform> and got just one good hit, even though it's for the Coldstrams. So there you have it: #3 dress, 1914. If you feel like celebrating, you might want to start right away. I'm a drink ahead of you. Cheers!

Great painting, great figure/sculptor and great regiment Carl! This is going to put me in the Box of Shame (has everyone seen the movie?) but I have to confess that I have little idea when and no idea where this uniform was worn. The pouch looks like an Mark II, 1890, consistent with having his...

Hi, Sanchez! I have just received, in the mail, the great figure of a Black Watch ((42nd Highlander) by Juan Carlos Avila, that you announced here in April. I would like to contact him about a uniform detail. Can you give me his Email addy, or a manufacturer's Email (though...

A while ago, I came across an advertisement for a DVD carrying all the issues of Campaigns magazine (from the 70s, for you youngsters): http://campaignsmagazine.com/ Has anyone ordered from this site? Were you happy with the product? I don't know why, but I have misgivings, perhaps because...

Hi, Enion. I was surprised to see you say that "Jo Sonja paints aren't gouache, that was merely a marketing term." Certainly the eponymous painter calls it gouache in her decorative painting book (published around 2000, I think), and it has been called "flow formula acrylic" since at least...

Serkan: In case Dimitri isn't up yet, here is a site that sells Jo Sonja's acrylic gouache in tubes and bottles: http://search.jerrysartarama.com/search?keywords=Jo+Sonja You can find a lot of sites on Google; this is the guy that I do business with. Just for the record, gouache is very much...

This is a hard one. Should it be Ensign Thomas (16 years old!) of the Buffs, or Lieutenant Latham of the 3rd Regiment of Foot? Perhaps we could setup both in a mini diorama. At Albuhera, the Buffs, probably too far ahead of the brigade for their own good, were attacked from the rear by two...

Well, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider yourself flattered! :D This is really impressive. I like gouache, with its strong opaque colors, and have used Jo Sonja's brand for this and that for about 13 years, but not for figure painting. Have you used retarder medium with...

I rather like the larger scales, !:16 and 1:18, because they allow more detail in some of the accoutrements that interest me, like sabretaches and colours. I am puzzled, though, by the way in which scale is arrived at. I remember reading, decades ago, that scale was gauged for a man who was 72"...

Same old same old. Yet another collection of miniature European fresh water fish. They do look great, though. Perhaps I'll add them to my vast fish collection. But those German WWII soldiers look interesting. Do you think that post Napoleonic Germans will catch on?

It does make a nice change of pace, doesn't it? If you don't want to wait, Carl, you can get it from the manufacturer now, for 22 Euro plus shipping, I assume: http://www.tin-berlin.de/?pid=10&gid=&gdid=918

Great bust, great paint job! I was wondering about what appears to be a diagonal line on the right arm just below the shoulder. Is that a mold issue or just my imagination?