. . . the first was a photo-op comparing
what looks to be two cavity mouldings (upper shot), one with a heavier match,
although looking at the photo's it probably only a bit of flach! This presented the second opportunity, and preferring the finer match of the
figure on the right, I trimmed the other one back (lower shot) to a bit of a
stick!
Taking a couple of pinches of Milliput, I mixed up a tiny amount and
made a teeny sausage to provide a stock, a little blob for the grip and a
fragment for the hammer (left shot), it wouldn't stick to the vinyl, and being
an impatient sort once I've got the bit between my teeth, I hurried it all
along with a super-glue bath and a Plastix
accelerator-pen!
Once the superglue had rendered everything
hard, I attacked it all with fine-tipped, black and brown marker-pens and
within ten-minutes of the idea he was finished - dodgy image on the right!
Better images (it's all in the
backgrownd!), I used a spare Innovative
or other copy of the Britains musket to arm the other spare chap, although he
will need some heat-treatment on his elbow to drop the hand enough to hold the
muzzle firmly, although a flag on a pole would be an easier 'instant'
conversion.
I will also tart the pistol-up a bit one
day, it needs a better grip . . . and paint it properly with gun-metal and some
spots of brass, but there you go; dismounted cavalryman (?) and sentry! Again, add
a sword at his waist and you've got an officer.
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