Tony Barton
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Thomas Brown 1743
Thomas Brown , of the 3rd or Bland’s Dragoons, as he might have appeared at the start of the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 .
He had an eventful battle , first having two horses killed under him , then getting into a melee over a fallen British standard in which he had two fingers of his bridle hand cut off. He returned to the fray and recaptured the flag, but in the process received eight cuts and two musket balls. He retired from the army, was given a pension and bought a pub in his native Kirkleatham ( N.Yorks ) but only survived for three years, dying as a result of his wounds.
This figure , and his horse, are completely scratchbuilt , and because of the embroidery on the housings it’s one of my most elaborate to date. As with all these large scale projects I try to use the correct material if possible, so the metal is metal, the leather real leather and so on .The figure is fully articulated, and can be posed any way you want, and all the equipment works more or less like the original and can be removed and refitted as you wish .The head and hands are scuplted in polymer clay.
The horse is a massively rebuilt Cindy horse, which I use because they are dirt cheap, and form a very good armature for rebuilding. I enlarge them by fitting plates of foamex between the seams , then remodel the head and neck in airdrying Efaplast . I had to do some research to create the saddle, of which there seem to be no survivors , and in the end followed some excellent 1:1 reconstructions used by reenactors in the USA.
Thomas Brown , of the 3rd or Bland’s Dragoons, as he might have appeared at the start of the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 .
He had an eventful battle , first having two horses killed under him , then getting into a melee over a fallen British standard in which he had two fingers of his bridle hand cut off. He returned to the fray and recaptured the flag, but in the process received eight cuts and two musket balls. He retired from the army, was given a pension and bought a pub in his native Kirkleatham ( N.Yorks ) but only survived for three years, dying as a result of his wounds.
This figure , and his horse, are completely scratchbuilt , and because of the embroidery on the housings it’s one of my most elaborate to date. As with all these large scale projects I try to use the correct material if possible, so the metal is metal, the leather real leather and so on .The figure is fully articulated, and can be posed any way you want, and all the equipment works more or less like the original and can be removed and refitted as you wish .The head and hands are scuplted in polymer clay.
The horse is a massively rebuilt Cindy horse, which I use because they are dirt cheap, and form a very good armature for rebuilding. I enlarge them by fitting plates of foamex between the seams , then remodel the head and neck in airdrying Efaplast . I had to do some research to create the saddle, of which there seem to be no survivors , and in the end followed some excellent 1:1 reconstructions used by reenactors in the USA.
