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Mine is held together with sticky tape and the edges of the pages or brown, from thumbing through while working on figures! :) Martin

Excellent mate.

Yes, Funcken but the first Napoleonic book I was bought as a thirteen year old was "Waterloo" by Commandant Henry Lachouque, packed full of pictures. Then Blandford publications "Uniforms at Waterloo". Oh this is wetting my appitite, I feel some Napoleonics coming on! :) Martin

We weren't amalgamated, we were "unified"! :) Martin

Although the archaeology in Northumberland has only really been along the wall and down the coast. As you know there's still a lot to dig up. :) By the way it still bugs me that they took away Newcastle's status as a "City and County" in it's own right. Gateshead was a foreign land when I...

That's one of the problems with making ancient figures. The fact is that all horses at the time were what we now call ponies. So do you put figures on historically accurate mounts or put them on modern looking horses (as most do) ? Martin

n interest discusion about the Post Office Rifles uniforms in the field. http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9884&p=48831&hilit=post+office+rifles#p48831 Basically it's possible that they were issued a standard blue infantry frock.So it follows that they also could have had unit...

That's the original cigarette card that caused the problem. The uniform was actually green (as a rifle regiment) with blue facings. Martin

Don't copy the Post Office Rifle picture. The colours are wrong. Martin

All good accurate references. Martin

Tinted with the wrong colours ! :) Martin

Yes a good book, even though George used to call me a mounted foot guard! :) (Household Cavalry only trained at the Guards Depot from 1970) Martin

It's about this time that the current silver drums were presented by William IV. So these are presumably the earlier pattern. The painting is of Second Life Guards marching out of Windsor (towards London). I'll sort out what reference I have for you. Martin

And colourful ! :) Martin

Get yourself on the Victorian Wars Forum. We have all kinds of interesting discusions on there. http://www.victorianwars.com/index.php Martin

Good luck. It's not easy coming up with something different,that will sell. If I can help with references just give me a shout. Martin

Remember Kosovo? Martin

If that hint is in my direction, yes, I do have more references. :) You should make the two Troopers also as Second Life Guards drum horse always had an escort. Martin p.s, I believe the drummer is William Batley :)

The Royal Windsor horse show.

Airfix were still making plastic kits and figures in the traditional scale of 1/32. As I understand it, 1/35th came about by chance, as it just happened to be the correct scale to fit the available moulding machines. It has taken over for military model kits because Tamiya were producing more...