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sculpted this lot. Will paint them next.

sculpting some details on this pair.

Almost done with the steps. I knocked up a side wall and testfitted the setup within my microscope box.

OK. So far I've made a few tentative steps .....That was a pun.....

Making some steps. I tk Im starting to lose the plot here, if not my marbles....hahaha.

I cut down the 1/24 scale couple by diminution (is this even a word,,,). Shortened all the limbs, replaced the head and hands with smaller 1/32 scale items. Then I repositioned all the right hand grouping including the horseman further back and the visual perspectives seem to work.

So what am I doing with these ugly knockoffs? Trying to create more natives to my right side....

Hi John, Will be adding at least 30 more figs later! For now, I need to resize down the couple and shift the right grouping back. Hence I am increasing the depth of the base. Added another layer of base and puttied over.

Starting to add more of a headdress and skirt for Ak.

Hi John, nice colourful uniforms. Those miniatures also look good. What make are they? More WIP on my piece. Giving him hussar boots.

Hi Louis, Pls post pix of yr Zouave uniforms here. I would enjoy seeing them Rgds Victor

Im going to focus more on this piece. I placed the base within the shadowbox and the fitting seems OK. I then took out the figures and started to fix their positions. Im very pleased with the group on the right. Notice a carriage? That is an old Historex piece about to be used for this scene.

Me too. It seems more elegant. BTW, the figures on that polish website. They look very similar to those 18-inch fabric-clothed figures that I saw at the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna. Those were made by a Helmut Krauss, who was featured in John Garratt's book on Connoisseur makers of...

Hi Brad, Thanks for yr comments. The pose looks like it should be holding a bow anyway. I'll be repainting the figure based on this illustration.

I realised that the bow is not a commercial item and was made by me from a cut thick wire bent to the right shape and wound with thin wire at intervals. A thin guitar string was added as a bow string. Then I added putty to bulk out the kimono sleeves. Also added a small white strip of metal...

Hi Louis, good to see you on this thread...:) Here is a simple start.

And then I found this site. Beautifully made figures. Note that the Russian troops are wearing tight trousers with hussar legging boots. https://en.topwar.ru/137508-gorod-vroclav-bronzovye-gnomy-i-diorama-bitvy-u-raclavicy-chast-2.html

Found this article. Similar thoughts. https://en.topwar.ru/196379-istorija-voennogo-mundira-problema-krasnyh-shtanov.html

Hi John, tx again. I took another look at my refs. This ugly uniform is from Potemkin's corp, From what I read, the overalls or leggings are generally wide, with lower leather reinforcements worn over short boots, a bit like the Antoine laSalle pantaloons. Although shown in the pics now and...

I started to fill in the gaps with cardboard pieces.