French FL turmpeter (1 Viewer)

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Since I redid the FFL kettledrummer, I've wanted to also redo the trumpeter.

Well here he is disassembled and waiting for a makeover.

 

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I realised that this figure was missing elements of a saddle. I could get away with it for the kettledrummer as it had a long shabraque and perhaps, that was draped over the saddle. Saddles are usually fixed on top of saddleclothes.

I removed the saddle cloth and it came off in cracked pieces. I have some great WWI French dragoon saddles refs and they show the old-fashioned Hungarian saddle construction.

So I selected a suitable Historex spare and proceeded to modify that. This was a spare which I got as a job lot off ebay with a lot of british dragoon parts.... The saddle flaps were also trimmed down and this was attached to the horse. Notice that I had thickened the girth of this horse with an airfix base. Hence I had to shave off the sides to fit the saddle cloth.

 

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Almost completed the saddlecloth,

 

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Here's the trumpeter with rebuilt features including proposed new legs.

 

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I built up most of the legs and mounted the figure to the horse.

 

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The figure was adjusted and the legs are being squared up.

 

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Rivoli looks like a long-running saga so in-between, I try to update my other numerous projects as well.

Here, I am being very careful about the pose as I have mtd figures which eventually appear lop-sided and had to be abandoned.

The figure here is being squared up on the horse and the details are slowly being added.