Ratch
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Yes, some modellers forget that these were toys we built ourselves to play with, to fight those battles that our parents and grandparents told us about. Working features were essential.
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Those extra crew figures are nice
I couldn't assemble the fuselage without painting the interior first
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Not a full set, but a restoration.
Summer dress
Winter dress
with a sepia wash
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I'm calling them done.
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I'm undecided about how to finish the Grenadiers. These are in summer dress, painting is complete, but no wash yet. I could just spray with Matt varnish, or I might add grass scatter to their bases.
These have winter gaiters. Same condition and options as the summer squad.
This batch have been washed with diluted Vallejo Game Wash Dipping Formula 73300 Sepia Shade. I could scatter their bases (or leave them), but they will me sprayed Matt.
Decisions, decisions...
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The Old Guard are advancing.
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Yes, I've heard brake fluid works too.
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52nd Oxfordshire Light Regiment
The Light Infantry were uniformed in a similar fashion to the Line, but retained the stovepipe shako, which bore a bugle-horn badge and green plume. The shako with the tuft at the front. Officers were distinguished by wings and carried the curved flank company sabre. Other ranks also wore wings and carried a shorter and lighter version of the Brown Bess musket.
Drummers wore reversed colours and had lace decoration to facings and to sleeve arms and back seams of the jacket. Their sleeves were covered with five, lace chevrons, point up; drums were brass, the hoops usually in the facing colour.
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The Oxfordshires are done.
I bought these 1/32 part set recently. I sprayed Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner on them and left them overnight. This morning I washed off what I could.
I have started painting them.
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9 hours ago, Gruntpa said:
I recently learned that my white plastic MPC kit is a descendant of the Airfix kit. Whooda thunk?
Several companies issued it Stateside.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/airfixtributeforum/viewtopic.php?p=1809#p1809
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13 hours ago, Gruntpa said:
What color plastic is yours molded in?
Bought 15 June 2007 for £10.50
I won't be using the kit decals, I have ordered Print Scale decal sheet PSL72075.
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More on the 52nd
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This is the Airfix 1/35 new tool A1373 with minor conversion work to make a Mk F as used by the 2nd Northants Yeomanry from D-Day going forward.
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Toasted wholemeal, streaky bacon grilled to a crisp, HP brown sauce - used to be Hammonds Chop sauce, but I can't find it any more 😢
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Nice one
I enjoyed this kit so much I built it twice
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I've had to take a break for a couple of days, having woken up with a stiff neck. it was really painful on Tuesday, but has eased a little each day since. It is still sore today, but a bit more mobile and I could get a couple of hours at the bench before I needed to rest it again. So a little more paint on the Oxfordshires.
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The drummer wears reversed colours.
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My next batch of figures are part restoration and some virgin pieces to make the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Regiment.
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1 hour ago, Tribesman72 said:
How was the skirt for you, and the interior? The number of seats is scaring me already!
I built it back in 2011 - a lot of plastic has passed through my hands, so memory is quite/very faded
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You might want to replace the B.R. decals as they're the wrong way around
Mine was a bit of a mare.
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Airfix 1/32 French Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (51460-6)
in Figure Ready for Inspection
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Thanks guys, I read that at Waterloo, because of the weather, they wore blue trousers. The uniform as moulded isn't quite spot on, but they're not a bad set for that.