I am now proceeding to adjust my collections and do things that were on standby for a quite a time… using replacement pieces (arms, heads, etc) and even disassembling W.Britains damaged horses (one I did broke myself and the other horse come without a tail…)… just a bit of harmless entertainment to polish the end of it.
I learned to disassemble the horses using a vice, a screwdriver and a hammer! (long years messing with toy soldiers without using a hammer!). But so far so well, I did a “new” horse with two different parts (one from each horse – a bit with tail and a bit with a good rear leg -) see pics (worth a thousand words).
So, now only remains to paint them.
In the meantime I elaborated a kepi of a French Adjudant FFL, Put a flag arm on a redundant figure, painted the flag of a Bengal Lancer… and planning to reuse the broken bits before ever contemplating throwing them away to the bin
Enjoy! (Surely it is fun to repair things and give them a second chance!)
It would command my Cavalry once painted as a Scot Grey. Have added the plume with milliput not in the pic) and will add one pic when fully painted.DetailNew Coldstream OfficerDone! and a few others…A part of my collection consists of Bengal Lancers in Parade Dress, I first got the Tradition of London dismounted figures at the front, and then bought some W.Britains Centenial sets to have the mounted Toy Soldiers… as usual I elaborated a bit and got for the mounted sets a British Officer, an Indian Officer and a Stndardbearer… buying two sets of each it gives you two “redundant” figures a bugler and an officer… Antony Spencer from DORSET SOLDIERS did some of the conversions… and I did the rest. Nearly finished.Works in process as described… Bengal Lancers, “New General”, “New Flag”, “NEW headgear for the FFL Adjudant… etc.Two half castings united…New horse hide… and slow progress…Two modified Toy Soldiers (change of right arms and new colour scheme)Added to unit.Added a mounted officer USMC 1900Bugle instead of pistol…Standardbearer instead of corporal firing pistl… and now on thw USMC instead of the 66th.Working on them!Resurrected!slowly getting there…A new tail, a new head, a new ADCSuperglue and fixing together the two halves of mounted toy soldiers casts (REPLICA)VarnishedInspiration come from a pic on the first ITSC book!Used the one on the right as a model for the one on the left… (meaning how to fix a sword).New figures added.The British “India” Khaki Collection.SIMKIN Infantry and ArtillerySIMKIN Cavalry… and collection completed.The workbench
