Piles of Old Lead

I managed to find time to complete the final assemblies the other night.

Trimming the arms on the firing figures was tiresome. It is very fiddly and I am glad there are only 8 firing poses in the box!!

All arms, packs, drums, etc are now attached. I stil have some work to do with putty on the officers to tidy up the conversions.

I have ended up with 3 officers, 1 officer holding standard, 1 sergeant holding standard, 3 sergeants with spontoon, 12 marching, 24 firing/loading, 4 drummers, and 4 kneeling/running to use as skirmisher types at a later date.

48 figures in all - not at all bad considering I had doubts to start with!

I spent an hour tonight cleaning the flash and mould lines from the assembled figures. Originally I began cleaning these up before assembly, but once I had put a few together decided it was easier and quicker to do so after assembly, and not all the lines are visible then either!

A few scrapes of a sharpish scalpel blade are more effective than a file on plastic figures. I then brush on a bit of liquid cement over the areas scraped just to smooth it off. The glue tends to 'melt' the surface a little and removes a lot of the unsightly surface blemishes and flash. This is especially useful on more delicate items such as muskets or hands.

Next stage will be the undercoating. I plan to get this done before the Easter weekend, then I can spend Easter actually doing some painting.