Indian Army Lancers 54MM: W.Britains and Tradition of London

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I finally ended messing with those sets… in the end it has been a year long (on and off)… but it is finished.

It is interesting in a way because trying to bend horse’s legs to add stability to the toy soldiers I broke some (the alloy used is sturdy but brittle!) and then I bought replacements, learned to repair, paited redundant figures… in the end lots of fun!

I segregated the pics from an ancient post I was complementing as things caught form and progress was evident.

Finally decided to put them alltogether in one Post

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.
A simple paintjob transform an officer of Hodson’s Horse (Blue tunic) into a Governor’s Bodyguard Officer (red tunic). Quite easy and straighforward.
As it was broken… why not try to repair?
Success with the first quickly implied disassemble the next one…
Now, using the two unbroken parts… a horse with a good rear leg and tail appears… (add a new head and right arm… and a brand new Toy Soldier will be added to the collection)
3 Units finished… (Love Bengal Lancers)
Detail 1
Detail 2
Detail 3
Working on the Madras Lancers…
Lacks only gloss varnish…
End of story
Collection by theme completed…