Ray Welshman
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Hi There,
I've done 3 early era mounties all for other people now this one is for my shelf
Ive always been fascinated/interested in the start of the North West Mounted Police. It was a force based on a military formation and most of its early members were military. In the early formation and march west they even carried lances and cannons.
The figure I will be depicting here will be winter 1877 or 78 when their kit hasn't been fully formalized. The horses and gear originally procured was woefully inadequate and most of the big cavalry horses from the east actually died as they couldnt adapt to the harsh western environment. The same for the saddles and tack just wouldnt suitable for the harsh winters. As a result for the first two years the force used what they could get from the United States and other areas.
This guy will be on one of the acquired horses that came from maybe Montana or North Dakota. Its a smaller horse/pony which I plan to paint as a palomino, Rifle will still be the snider single shot and accoutrements will be a mix of US Cavalry and British kit. The saddle is the US Cavalry version which was used for a period before the California saddle was settled on.
Lastly he is still wearing the pith helmet which fell out of favour in later years and he will have a buckskin tunic over his red serge.
Horse is verlinden 120 mm US Calvary horse, legs are from the same kit, Head is a spare verlinden and the start of the torso is baked sculpty but the rest will be from apoxie sculpt/green stuff mix I like to use.
I've done 3 early era mounties all for other people now this one is for my shelf
Ive always been fascinated/interested in the start of the North West Mounted Police. It was a force based on a military formation and most of its early members were military. In the early formation and march west they even carried lances and cannons.
The figure I will be depicting here will be winter 1877 or 78 when their kit hasn't been fully formalized. The horses and gear originally procured was woefully inadequate and most of the big cavalry horses from the east actually died as they couldnt adapt to the harsh western environment. The same for the saddles and tack just wouldnt suitable for the harsh winters. As a result for the first two years the force used what they could get from the United States and other areas.
This guy will be on one of the acquired horses that came from maybe Montana or North Dakota. Its a smaller horse/pony which I plan to paint as a palomino, Rifle will still be the snider single shot and accoutrements will be a mix of US Cavalry and British kit. The saddle is the US Cavalry version which was used for a period before the California saddle was settled on.
Lastly he is still wearing the pith helmet which fell out of favour in later years and he will have a buckskin tunic over his red serge.
Horse is verlinden 120 mm US Calvary horse, legs are from the same kit, Head is a spare verlinden and the start of the torso is baked sculpty but the rest will be from apoxie sculpt/green stuff mix I like to use.
