54MM BRITAINS (New Centenial Series) Scots Grey’s set (bought 2 sets in ebay.co.uk) Edited 2025

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It all started last winter… (2024)… I discovered a lot of sets of NEW Britains I did not knew about on ebay.co.uk! (not easy to buy them because a lot of ebay sellers do not send to ANDORRA!… only the really good businessmen among them (some of them real gentleman!… mind!).

Afterwards of a lot of madly buying (feeding frenzy when applied to sharks)… I decided to buy Norman Joplin’s book about those sets… the normal thing would have been the inverse procedure. A quick read showed me that I had not done so bad after all… BUT… introduced me to sets I did not know existed at all… as this present Scots Grey’s set (2 sets I bought from the same ebay seller!).

Well, in less then 24 hours after their arrived in ANDORRA… I have already converted a sergeant into a trumpeter… could not avoid the temptation…

Enjoy!

One of the segeants has been converted (quickly) into a trumpeter…
Lateral view.
Only had to change the arm and paint the plume red…
The main reason behind buying those sets… magnificent sentry boxes!

Finally decided to convert the exra officer into a standardbearer and complete the trumpeter with a big red plume. See pics below (2025)

Now the set is quite to my satisfaction.
Colour detail
With this pic you can see the whole set (before completion of the paintjob on the Colour).

Author: Alejo Dorca

Born in 1952. Married in 1976. Two sons and a daughter. 4 grandsons to date, 3 boys and a girl. Arquitect in 1978. Retired in 2016 aprox. Lifelong Toy Soldiers aficionado.