So upon completing my painting of the 23rd Regiment of Foot, I decided I wanted them to be wearing knapsacks and rolls. I made the regiment from Perry metals and none of them have knapsacks or rolls sculpted onto them.
I had plenty of leftover rolls from the Perry plastic boxed sets.
However, the supply of knapsacks on the plastic sprues is limited and I ran out after using them on other regiments.
First thought was to get the knapsack bits second-hand off of Ebay or some other similar place. But after some quick searching I realized that it was way too specific and way too niche of a thing that some seller out there would be specifically selling a ziploc bag of tiny knapsacks.
Also came up empty on resin or 3D printed bits companies selling 18th Century knapsacks in a pack, or historical knapsacks of any period. There's lots of 3D printed 28mm knapsacks on Etsy, but they are mostly designed for 40k or fantasy models, etc.
But I suddenly realized something and felt rather silly. In 28mm scale, all an AWI knapsack really is is a slightly puffy square!
So I got out the green putty and cut them out like I was making tiny cookies, lol. I actually cut elongated rectangles and then folded them in half and squished them a bit to get that "two halves" look.
Then I painted them up in an appropriate shade of red and then painted the 23rd's plume emblem on them over a small circular field of blue.
I copied the design from Giles Allison's blog.
They'll do the job I think!
looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!
