Well - two things are still to be done! And both are "spending money"!
First of all I ordered for my black Bolshevik Cossack a dust cover made of glass, like this one, which belongs to another figure ...:
I do not own a vitrine - every figure or bust has its own hood. So I'm not dependent on a place.
For the second thing, a little "Astronomy" is necessary!
Originally I had planned to decorate the beautiful pedestal that my friend Klaus has made for me with a Red Army cockade from the second world war ...:
But the longer I thought about it, the less I liked this idea!
Because star is not like star!
The hammer-and-sickle symbol shown on the selected cockade was not introduced until 1923, the star in the form shown until the mid-1930s.
The thing changed quite often its appearance - to the end of the Soviet Union it came somewhat brighter and - above all! - essentially "more pointed" therefore!
I represent my Cossack in 1920 - and the Soviet cockade still bore the original symbol of a hammer (which symbolized the working class) and a plow (for the peasantry) ...:
Also, the form was again different!
Here times all three mentioned models in comparison:
On the left, at the beginning of the Civil War, in the middle of the Second World War, and on the far right, the cockade of the Red Army as it was worn until the fall of the USSR in 1990 ...:
Stupid for me:
The middle and the right star I have in my fundus, the left version not!
So I bought such a star from a dealer for militaria in Russia today!
An original of course, because a replica (which are mostly madeed in China and sold by dealers in the US) does not come into my house!
(Hrrrmmmpppff - quite pedantic, isn't it?)
Let's see how long the Russian Post and the German Customs will need this time.
Until then, my Bolsheviks comes in the locker for the first time in a dust-proof manner - but you will see the finished result of course!