Thursday 23 December 2010

Airfix American War of Independence British Grenadiers

The army that appears to be suffering from backache...a lot of them have very hunched poses...maybe that´s why the drummer in this set isn´t smiling.



13 comments:

  1. They've probably heard the final score already.
    Another great paint job.
    Tim

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  2. Nice stuff as always Paul.

    Hunched depressed poses like that - a subliminal anti-colonial message from the sculptor maybe ? :-)

    Merry Christmas

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  3. Could be incoming fire, bad diet or exhaustion.

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  4. They are just tyred... Of listening to the drummer...

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  5. Horrible looking figures but very well painted.

    Why are they all walking around as if they are carrying 10 tons of ballast on their shoulders?

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  6. It's those coats, very hot in the sun. Poor blokes.

    Merry Christmas Paul.

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  7. Crap figures,brilliantly painted.That flag is top notch.

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  8. I like them how you painted them. Are you AWI also now ;-)

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  9. Thanks.
    They are bog awefull sculpts...and not very many poses...still they had to be done.
    @Peter...AWI ?...when the feeling takes me :-D
    Cheers
    Paul

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  10. Fantastic painting as usual, Paul, although those old Airfix figs could only be useful in a War in Middle Earth :-D

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  11. very nice job.. too bad that you made a mistake about the British flag which only included the english and the scottish flags on this time ( the irish red cross was added one century later)

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    1. Thanks. The "Mistake" is deliberate ;-)In persuit of My Project to paint all the poses from every figure set Airfix ever made I use the box art from airfix as reference material, the colours shown, flags, badges etc, wether it´s historically correct or not.
      The Airfix Box art for this set Shows the historically incorrect flag.
      http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=43

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