Blues and Royals

[FredG]

Some time ago I decided to take eight figures from the Revell set 2578 British Life Guards and paint them as Blues and Royals.The horses selected from the set had a lot of extra plastic moulded on so they all had to be recarved, an annoying necessity. They were primed (brushed on black) them given a chocolate brown coat and then inked over black. This gave a very dark brown finish to further play with. I painted the sheepskin a sheepy colour and tried to give some semblance of a shabraque but failed miserably. At this point I just happened to fall upon the information that the Italeri set 6080 French Light Cavalry had the problem of too many shabraques and not enough sheepskins.
I dug out a set of these from the stash and selected eight of the horses.. They looked ok to go, the Revell figures fit but the hiorses' tails were too long. I cropped one of the horse tails ( Left) and reshaped the end and it looked reasonable so continued.



They don't look too bad. Here's the comparison with a Revell horse



The Revell horses now have a new home in an Italeri box and the Italeri horses are set to have Revell riders.

Primed


Now to get on with the riders.

[FredG]

The horses are ready for a wash and then the furniture painted up. They had black primer then chocolate brown and a diluted black ink so they're not a solid colour. The wash will dull the finish and enhance detail. They'll also have a few bits of grey/white added.



The figures are coming along. Most of the large areas are done and just need some fine touching up. then it's down to equipment and facings.



I had a little fun with the scalpel. While removing the Troopers' plumes, I somehow managed to remove the Officer's plume ( the one in the fancy coloured trousers) and left one on a Trooper. Out came the Bosch screw driver and 0.6mm drill, his plume is now stainless steel wire coated in PVA.
I then conspired to remove the plume left on the Trooper and removed the front of the helmet too. Superglue gel to the rescue and a final trim ( carefully this time).



If nothing else, preparation of this little band has been eventful so far.

Still a lot to do.






Still a lot to do.

[Susofrick]

I've seen The Royal Bluesband, but I don't think you will add them here. Looking forward to see more of this!

[FredG]

Work has progressed although it's not that easy to see a lot of it in the photo. All the leather work of the horses' tack is painted. As the horses are a very dark brown I used greyblack for this. Still the metal parts to add. Hooves and eyes are painted and I've started on the shabraques.



The horses are not as glossy as they seem in the photo either.

[FredG]

I think the horses are about done. probably just a few little touch ups.

[Susofrick]

Hmm, where is that love-button .... Ah, yes!!! There it was!

[FredG]

The figures are coming on. There's still a bit of work to do on these and to be honest I'm not 100% happy with them looking through the magnifier. With naked eyes they'll pass

[Beano Boy]

They are looking real spivey FredG. BB

[Marvin]

Looking forward to the finished result. You've done a fine job so far, for sure!

[Peter]

So far so good Fred!