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I quite agree. I'm having great fun constructing the Light Infantry Officer - I'll post pics when I've finished. I know what you mean about the smaller horses. I found a 17th Lancer that I'd completed year's ago and discovered even then I'd swapped the horse for something bigger. The standing...

Nice painting! And such a great pose. It's a shame that there are very few manufacturers, certainly in plastic, that provide a standing horse. Given that cavalry spent a great deal of time in scouting and generally trotting about, I've always thought it was something missing. I might just splash...

They're British soldiers. The British army doesn't do kit that fits. :wink2: David

Thanks for the reply, I'm new on here and I've been swamped by the sheer number of posts covering all kinds of ready made and ready painted figures. Your pictures are an inspiration to figure builders everywhere. I've been following Eric's blog for a while, which encouraged me to pick up some...

Sources vary as to whether lancers would wear a full set of parade ground accoutrements into battle. I painted these as a variably generic group to cover the late 19th century era. I did start to wonder about the cap badge but was swayed by the fact that AIP only provides galloping horses...

Has anyone had experience, good or bad, with these figures? They've been around for a long while, going through three owners but still producing kit form Napoleonic and Crimean figures. If you have built them or used them in conversions, perhaps you could submit a photo here for our...

A series of pictures documenting the construction, conversion and collecting of Helmet Soldiers.

Thanks for the welcome, Johnnybach. I may have muddled the picture loading as my original isn't showing the pic like it did for my other reply. Here goes again... I find the painting therapeutic as a means to unwind after a busy day. I like reading up about the troopers before I paint them and...