FRENCH OFFICER AT SOLFERINO 1859

This soldier in plastic was commisioned by a small museum of the council where I live.The people who ordered this had no idea about material and wanted the figure quickly to use in a display depicting an action that took place in the town. So I used this Britain's Deetail figure and put on a metal base plus a new metal sword and metal flag.I downloaded the flag from a site on Internet.I earnt 50 pounds and was well pleased. Normally a figure like this is about 15/20 pounds if using a metal base. If not about ten pounds painted.I decided to use white trousers as I am told that the french used them in Italy although re-enactors never depict this.

Here and below are the various stages of building up this figure.I rebuilt the kepi with Tiling putty.

FRENCH LINE INFANTRY at SOLFERINO

I was doing this French Line infantryman from Solferino and here is the piece up till now.Its unfinished . I plan to replace the bayonet with a proper metal one. Theres a lot more to do an the soldier I converted was not very good .It was a BMC pirate in the true Britains scale.My idea was to create line infantry in the Britains scale by getting this right then having it moulded into metal.The original model would e gone more or less so copyright was not or i not a prob I believe.I hate infringing copyright though. Has anyone got any ideas on the law on this? Anyway I'll let you know bout this one when I finish it.