" drum roll please" ,said the timid button.
And as such the only one to be seen here.
I have been checking out in review style the painted Guards,and those 16 above one to a can needed touching up on the bayonets with silver paint as vibration caused it to ping off. later these figures will be varnished up after I sort those darn blank faces out. Yesterday saw another 15 added which are painted white in the picture above,and this will make this column of marching Guards up to 100. A nice Round figure.
I`ll check over the Band later in the same way to sort out its rank and file,and touch them up with paint where necessary before varnish is applied to them.
Obviously the figures would look better with a grey platform base,but the brief was not to paint them,although some black shuffled its way upon them,in slap dash style.
Checked out in review columns took a liitle time to do,but by doing it my head is not so muddled as to what needs doing.
The Colours and the Union Flag are seen to the front,as is the Officer on Parade. The flags will be painted in full later.
The space between each line of soldiers allows the Officer and the Colours to be presented along each rank and file in turn.
I like to show a few buildings just to set the scale nicely into HO OO Scale.
Where there was no detail of them at the front of these figures I gave up trying to do buttons that would or could not line up the same on each figure. I did a few samples and they looked more the worse for it so in the end I decided that the white line would have to do.
" A zip up of uniformity works for me BB."
These Elites kept their white tails.
As one can see I am no artist where painting figures is concerned but I try,and my Mrs B,agrees that I am very trying at odd times.
I like to reason that these fellows are my own T A ,22 Regiment of Fiddle Wood Foot Guards. BB