120mm Australian Light Horse, Palestine 1917. Almost finished

[Fransab]

Hi friends!

It´s almost finished. I don´t know if, perhaps, I´ve passed over with the dust, but I wanted to reflect a dusty ambient, what do you think?. Please, as always, criticisms are welcome in order to improve the figure and my work.
Sorry for the pictures, It´was taken with my pone. I´ll try to improve them.
Thank you very much for looking.

Best regards,
Francisco

 

[FigureLover]

Nice work on this classic. Love the dusty look on his uniform and the suitably weary look in his eyes
Ben

 

[Fransab]

Thank you very much for your kindly words Ben

 

[Zastrow.cuirassier]

Looks Great !
Somes people could find that there's missing the collars and shoulders title's, but according to my doc, unless the A on the unit patche (for those how fight in Gallipoli) and the rising sun cap badge, the Light horsemen sometimes didn't wear collars or /and shoulders .

Rising sun cap badge

Shoulder Title

Collar from 16 inf batt.

A for "Anzac" how fought in Gallipoli

Color patches, do you find the one of our figure ?
More details (a website to keep in your favorites) :
http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2014/07/31/australian-imperial-force-aif-badges-1914-1918/
and
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/00-badges-index.htm
Have a look also at :
http://www.lighthorse.org.au/resour...light-horse/the-mounted-soldiers-of-australia
and
http://www.lighthorseart.com.au/

 

[tonydawe]

Congratulations on completing this classic Australian Light Horse figure by Phil Walden. The uniform you have painted is historically accurate, even though it could include some brass badges if you wanted to add them. My research suggests that it was a relatively common practice among some LH units to remove the brass badges before a stunt, as the brass would heat up in the hot sun. Other simply lost their badges over time and didn't bother to replace them while in operations. Either way the figure you've painted is accurate and well done.

The research documents provided are also very useful for reference. Please not though that the Rising Sun badge shown is not WW1 vintage, as it should say "Australiam Imperial Forces".

 

[Zastrow.cuirassier]

Congratulations on completing this classic Australian Light Horse figure by Phil Walden. The uniform you have painted is historically accurate, even though it could include some brass badges if you wanted to add them. My research suggests that it was a relatively common practice among some LH units to remove the brass badges before a stunt, as the brass would heat up in the hot sun. Other simply lost their badges over time and didn't bother to replace them while in operations. Either way the figure you've painted is accurate and well done.

The research documents provided are also very useful for reference. Please not though that the Rising Sun badge shown is not WW1 vintage, as it should say "Australiam Imperial Forces".

Thanks for your comments !
My Gran-fathers sa some of the Anzac during his soldier life 1914-1919!
A great story, he told me when i was a young boy!