"New: Highlanders Regiment" Topic

"The glorious tones of the pipes can be heard as the new Highlanders Regiment march to war fully prepared to beat Napoleons forces back to France…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Nice and animated but those arms are massive!

I really like these.

Their heads look small, too. Maybe forced perspective due to the large arms?

Yeah, good luck with the checked bands on the stockings and bonnets, not to mention the tartan!

You really need to be good to make those look right!

The piper isn't holding his pipes in a playing position. (Nitpicky)

Might that be because the battalion is breaking into a trot…?

Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Not sure that is what most people are saying Tango.(Grin)

Bit like a big event here today, called an election…..you may have missed the point here. Folk have their doubts.

No flank companies?

OK, they are charging, whilst Victrix are a firing Line. But Perrys do a charging regt already. How many Highlanders will you need?

Another thing that I missed, but Mrs F did not. She spotted instantly…those kilts are (grossly short) miniskirts. She could not have gone to her college in anything that length in late 60s (she did of course by rolling up the waist band).

Check out those knees….. The Highlanders…….not Mrs F's….

Any woman would spot it instantly…and would be right. Why do these folk not check things before release?

Good spot Mrs DH re kilts aaaah happy memories
I think it'll be Perry's for me though Victrix aren't too shabby and I think have those LBMS tartan transfers-anybody ever use them?????

Oh yeah, forgot about those transfers! Yes indeed, do they work and do they work on any make of figure?

They always seemed like the cans of checkered paint you see in cartoons to me! :o)

The transfers are only for individual figures in the Victrix Range…ie you decide which ones you want to paint and buy their own personal kilt etc decals. There are not enough in the range for the entire set.

The base must be painted white. Essential….. these are very transparent decals it turns out. The snag then is that they are not a perfect fit, so you have edges in stark white to paint in. I used decal setting solution, gloss paint base for best adhesion and gave up early on. I had far more success with the 71st transfers (sorry, decals!).

I often go back to the one Highlander I did finish and determine to revisit this….it just needed more patience. The waterbottle decals are impossible……..totally. The end result could be very good…could be, but they look far better on the backing paper than on the figures in my hands

To be fair, the feilidh beag was shorter in the early C19th

Having difficulty posting an image but there are a few contemporary or authentic images here

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The transfers could be used but you would need to be comfortable in using them and the use of Micro Sol is essential and needs to be used IMHO. .Not everyone has the patience to use them and have done a couple for the guys at our club.

I thought they were Perry metals at first, the poses are remarkably similar but with thicker arms

And not in march attack either – how will people cope?

I have got used to action poses in 1/72 but I know 28mm fans don't always like active poses. Have fun

Marc

42flanker……intriguing and very convincing. I owe them an apology.

Any evidence that Highlanders had arms thicker than their legs now?…and it is real humble pie then!

the arms are massive indeed, not a warlord fan.

Agree re arms. Look at the top picture, front row, bloke on the right. His cuffs are wider than his head is tall.

Re kilt length wasn't the rule that they be an inch off the ground when kneeling?

His cuffs are wider than his head is tall.

I can't recall reading a thread about any of Warlord's figs without there being some negative comment about the size of the hands/cuffs. You'd have thought that the next time the sculptor sat down to make some Warlord figs he'd think "Now I must try and make the hands smaller this time" – yet every new box seems to be the same.