UKReb
Command Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2007
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As I was leaving the December London show to join my fellow Brit Brigade colleagues for our usual beer and grub meeting I spotted this Britain's figure of Col John Mosby on the table of a private dealer. It was a bit of an impulse buy for me because I already had the mounted figure in my collection. However, my impulsiveness was probably due to the price the dealer was asking for the unboxed figure-A Tenner (£10.00=$15.00) which for a mounted Britain's figure in the UK is an absolute snip. In fact another dealer at the same show had Mosby (properly boxed) marked up at the UK retail price of £60.00 ($90 bucks).
But what to do with two distinctive Gray Ghosts? A slight conversion and a horse repaint seemed to be the best way forward.
Pistol cut then ground flush/arm removed & gauntlet cut off. Gauntlet drilled and rewired to his shoulder. New arm molded, shaped to rest on his right thigh. His horse then repainted as a fine light bay with an appropriate white blaze and white fetlocks and the whole figure given a coat of matt varnish.
Result a non-descript/non-personality-but a much more versatile- mounted Reb officer for this Reb's own Army of Northern Virginia
But what to do with two distinctive Gray Ghosts? A slight conversion and a horse repaint seemed to be the best way forward.
Pistol cut then ground flush/arm removed & gauntlet cut off. Gauntlet drilled and rewired to his shoulder. New arm molded, shaped to rest on his right thigh. His horse then repainted as a fine light bay with an appropriate white blaze and white fetlocks and the whole figure given a coat of matt varnish.
Result a non-descript/non-personality-but a much more versatile- mounted Reb officer for this Reb's own Army of Northern Virginia
