200mm Lance Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, Western Front, after 1916

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MCPWilk

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I don't know about grey armies, but this has been a significant member of my resin army, staring down mournfully over the past few years as other projects have come and gone. The figure represents a Lance Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, Western Front, 1916.

I suspect that sergeants lose their good conduct stripes on promotion, but I'm not sure about Lance Sergeants. The figure was sculpted by the late Pete Morton and was then produced by Foxwood Figures (https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/foxwood-figures-200mm-ww1-grenadier-guards.67835/#post-695404). I'm not sure whether or not it is still available.

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A very Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy New Year to all.

Mike
 
Nice work Mike - I’d tend to agree with you re the Good Conduct stripes because as you’re probably aware, a Lance-Sergeant in the Guards is equivalent to a Corporal in other arms, & I’ve seen plenty of Corporals in Infantry battalions wearing Good Conduct chevrons. It was a custom that seemed more popular with the infantry than any other arm of service, because I can’t recall seeing any cavalry or RAC soldiers wearing them & I served in an armoured garrison (Detmold, BAOR) for 2 years.
 
Difficult to know how the wearing of good conduct stripes differ between the services. Petty Officers wear them, but not CPOs.

Mike
 
I don’t know that much about the Royal Navy’s customs re Good Conduct badges, but I do know that they were worn by the pre-WW2 RAF & by some airmen who were entitled to them during that conflict; don’t know any particular reason for this, but my guess is that it may have been a throwback to the RAF’s antecedents, the Royal Flying Corps & RNAS.
Maybe some ex-RAF on this forum might be able to shed more light?
 
Hello Mike,

Nice figure, up to your usual high standards.

And yes, the figure is still available although all our 200mm WW1 stock has gone in the lead up to Christmas. Replacement stock will be here in the New Year.

Can we just take this opportunity to wish all members, all modellers, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year.

Terry
Foxwood Figures
 
It looks to me like the rank on his upper arm is that of a colour Sergeant.
You have the stripes, cloth grenade badge above that, then the crossed swords and the crown- Colour Sgt.
A lance Sergeant would have three stripes and the grenade badge only.
Only guardsman and L/Cpls wore conduct stripes on the lower left arm
It’s a very nice portrayal of a ww1 Grenadier and I suppose you remove the insignia you don’t need.
Guards rank insignia is a law onto itself..
 
Nice job Mike. Not seen this figure before. Like the sort of relaxed pose, the way he’s holding his rifle, and the uniform colours look spot on.

Neal
 
This is what peoples from Foxwood wrote when selling on ebay

" .... 200mm resin casting of a Roman Centurion Bust. Sculpted by Pete Morton . Excellent quality - similar to Verlinden and others Five day listing. Postage in the UK £4.00. Airmail to Europe is £5.00. Airmail to the rest of the world is £7.00 (but please check prior to bidding). Payment by Paypal, cheque on UK bank account, bankers draft or Postal Order. All international buyers to pay by Paypal only please . Postal discounts will apply to multi buys. Postage will be in a box, padded envelope or bubble wrap and brown paper at our discretion. Where possible, we will recycle packing and wrapping materials to keep down costs and to do our "green thing". Please note that we are not responsible for items once posted. About us. Foxwood Figures is a new model figure business based in Somerset, that will offer modellers something just a little bit different: a combination of newly commissioned figures plus the acquisition of masters, moulds and full reproduction rights to a range of figures from past companies that, for a variety of reasons, have ceased trading. This will allow us to offer figures from a wide and diversified selection of sculptors from some of the old time “greats” such as Al Charles, Cliff Sanderson, Richard Almond and Bill Hearne, through to some more recently retired greats such as Derek Cross and Alan Caton as well as some of the current “greats” such as Maurice Corry and Pete Morton.
This includes a number of complete figure ranges – such as All the Queens Men (80mm plus), Oakwood Studios, Spearhead Miniatures and a number of the former Maurice Corry Miniatures to name but a few, as well as a number of individual figures. We have also purchased a large amount of "redundent stock", some of which has been stored for well over 10 years. Now, we do need to be careful. Some of these “Forgotten Companies” figures will be dated and many will require “modelling skills” to complete. So, yes, you will need to file down seam lines and many joints will need filler too! You will need to have some patience. But they will make up into good kits – and kits in subjects not always covered today. Clearly the demand for these older figures will be lower than brand new ones and to make this work we will need to keep our costs down to a minimum. So we will not be producing expensive printed boxes with artwork showing newly commissioned painted figures. This will simply mean that the cost of the figures is going to be higher than we can sell them for. In fact, we are quite a “green” company so we will use recycled posting and packing material whenever possible. This will allow us to keep our costs down and to offer customers “value models” where the important thing is the casting itself. We are also still looking for additional figures so if you own, or know of someone who owns figures, no longer in production, then please let us know via our email address of . Similarly, if you are a sculptor with figures to move on, then please contact us as well. However, it was early retirement through ill health that has presented us with this opportunity to set up this business......and it is the continuing health issue that means that we can, for the time being, only operate on a limited run basis and on a basis where we can control the sales output. So, for the time being, we will only be marketing these figures through our eBay account, foxwoodfigures, and hope to have a website up and running in the future with our full range of over 200 figures. .... "

Wheel what can I say ... perhaps :

 

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