Improving sets with bits&pieces (edited 2025)

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Sometimes perfection needs a bit of variety… meaning that the REPLICA set was great but strangely enough the 4 gunners where a bit repetitive… 4 gunners in the same instance or attitude made 8 for a battery… so… with the passing of time I become obsessed by their looks and finally decided to add ramroads and bullets to them… see second pic. It was just a matter of ordering some bits&pieces to IMPERIAL/DORSET miniatures… and glue them on.

Now they look much better in my collection I guess… same to be done to an Indian Raj Battery (Only the bullets). There, now you know what obsessive collecting is… at least mine!

Enjoy!

Royal Artillery Set by Replica (Original)
Same set with “improved” gunners.
See what I mean?
Redundant officer “conversion”

See spare arm with colour

New arm is fixed in place.
Only painting remains (see also new big plume for the trumpeter done with plasticine)
New additions.
Will add some more detail on the colour later on…
Lacks gloss varnish but almost there…

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.