24 The Yorkshire Regiment. 1879

[Fex]

The officer of colonial armies for 1879 - 75мм
24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment.

I decided to have a rest a little from busts on the scale of 1/10 and to make a figure of 75 mm in size. It is my first experience in production of such figure.

 

[Johan Kees]

Looks very promising. Both figures would make for a nice little vignette!

Jhan

 

[Tecumsea]

Bang on Johan I second that..................look forward to seeing more Fex.

Keith

 

[Helm]

Interesting stuff Fex I never realised that none Scottish units wore the Glengarry so learned something already

Steve

 

[billyturnip]

A good subject and a good start. You might want to check the title though if you are depicting the 24th in the Zulu War,which it looks like you are. The 24th Foot were 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot not Yorkshire.

Roger.

 

[Fex]

Yes yes, difficulties of transfer. For us Yorkshire and Warwickshire in transfer sounds equally. I simply was mistaken in the releader into English

 

[billyturnip]

Yes yes, difficulties of transfer. For us Yorkshire and Warwickshire in transfer sounds equally. I simply was mistaken in the releader into English

Easy mistake to make with the translation.

 

[billyturnip]

It's easy to to tell the difference in the pics though the Warwickshire lads are the noble, squared jawed fellahs and the Yorkshire bods are the slack jawed droolers

Steve

 

[Wings5797]

I feel the wars of the white rose and bear coming on.
Cheers,
Keith

 

[billyturnip]

I feel the wars of the white rose and bear coming on.
Cheers,
Keith

I think Steve will tell you Keith there is a close affiliation between the Bear and White Rose in this area as Warwick was a Neville.

 

[ju2003]

Привет!Интересная фигура!Когда закончите будет в продаже?
с уважением ju2003

 

[ChaosCossack]

Great start!
I hope you continue this SBS in some detail... I feel I could learn alot following this project.
Interesting subject as well

Cheers

Colin

 

[captfue]

Nice looking start, hope to see more

 

[Fex]

small stop
Thanks to Richie ( http://www.planetfigure.com/members/richie.6529/ ) consultation I found out questions which were interesting to me, and now I will make some changes and then I will continue work. Not all artists correctly draw a uniform.

 

[MCPWilk]

Looking very good. I'm not sure about the illustration: wouldn't he be more likely to be holding the sword inhis right hand and revolver in the left? Most swords have a handed guard (http://pooleysword.com/en/Infantry_Sword) which makes holding them in the left hand difficult.

Happy modelling,

Mike

 

[Helm]

Unless he's shooting said revolver or is left handed Mike

Steve

 

[solmyi]

'Interesting stuff Fex I never realised that none Scottish units wore the Glengarry '

Steve , in my day it was referred to as a 'fore and aft' worn by officers only, however, they never had the trailing ribbon; frowned upon and a bit'sissy'.

 

[Fex]

 

[Fex]

Our little band will drink you under the table anyday

Ronaldo the Scotsman

Tell it to "the thin red line"


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[solmyi]

Ron,
we didn't have school milk i my day, instead we were rationed on Newcastle' nukee' Brown and woodbines and that was in the 'infants'.

However,Ribbons were always considered 'sissy' when worn by boys.

Meanwhile, please correct me if I'm wrong, but officers of an English regiment would not been seen wearing a glengarry, instead it would be the 'fore and aft', dark blue or green for an infantry regiment and a contrast of two colours for a cavalry regiments. Which then leads me to believe that the illustration used by 'Fex' may be incorrect.

regards from 'Tyneside'