"The Jodpur Lancers: How could I miss this Detail?" Topic
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| Dining Room Battles | 26 May 2022 4:19 p.m. PST |
I noticed something. A missed historical detail. To understand how frustrated (and anal I can be) let me give you some background about me. . .
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robert piepenbrink  | 26 May 2022 4:48 p.m. PST |
You convert these into something else, then purchase and paint a corrected unit. Welcome to miniature warfare, where the correct answer always involves buying more figures. |
| Grelber | 26 May 2022 7:17 p.m. PST |
Dremel tools can be used for shaving (the figures, not you). I used the High Speed Cutters like Numbers 191 or 193. Several others are close and would probably work if they are what you have on hand. Start carefully, use a light touch, maybe even practice on the piece of metal that often connects the bottom of the feet on cavalry figures. Unless you are far more skilled than I am, you won't be able to carve a wart on his face or a Cary Grant style cleft in his chin but for my purposes (making a shaven Viking, like Kirk Douglas in the movie The Vikings) it worked fine. Grelber |
| Legionarius | 26 May 2022 8:02 p.m. PST |
Life on campaign is hard. Maybe they lost their shaving kit…maybe they just don't have the time… |
| Col Durnford | 26 May 2022 8:06 p.m. PST |
Head swap, I do it all the time. |
| advocate | 27 May 2022 2:30 a.m. PST |
Legionarius, they must have been on campaign for a very long time… |
| Col Durnford | 27 May 2022 5:12 a.m. PST |
One other possibility, perhaps the illustration is idealistic and not a true representation of the actual unit. Kinda like the French backpacks on the Union soldiers pictured on the Gettysburg cyclorama. |
| advocate | 27 May 2022 7:17 a.m. PST |
Some Rajputs were Muslim, and did wear beards. I don't know if they were recruited by the British. I suspect those Hindu Rajputs were deliberately clean-shaven. |
| Murvihill | 28 May 2022 5:24 a.m. PST |
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