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Monday, 18 May 2015

Airfix Waterloo Highland Infantry (Mk2)

Still carrying on with the Napoleonic theme and as part of the Airfix Tribute Forum Waterloo GB I´ve added another stand of infantry, another centre Company but this time a centre company of the 42 Regiment,  Royal Highland - Black Watch.
As with the Airfix Waterloo British Infantry they are  100% Airfix, but this time I used bits from the British infantry set.
I´ve painted the set before (HERE) using the Airfix Boxart as a reference. Back then (2 years ago) I used more  "false" blacklining than nowadays...but I still like the look of the Blacklined ones.

There´s 23 bods on the stand, only 2 less than the Waterloo British Infantry stand with 25 but it still Looks a  bit empty in comparison.



The conversions (I didn´t take pics before painting)
This Waterloo Diorama from the 1970´s  is worth a look..virtually all 1/72nd Airfix !!
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16 comments:

  1. Phil18 May 2015 at 05:07

    Awesome job, and great conversions!

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  2. Silver Whistle18 May 2015 at 06:30

    The subtle conversion work on the figures are a nice touch.
    Never realised the reason for the flags being positioned as they were, until now.

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  3. maximex18 May 2015 at 10:46

    Great work,
    This varied use of color is admirable
    It takes a lot of sharp eye and patience (mean time)..

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  4. peter18 May 2015 at 12:34

    Looks great as usual Paul! Try to avoid close up pictures! ;-)
    Thanks for the link to! Great diorama! (But Blucher is from Artminiaturen!)

    Greetings
    Peter

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  5. Chasseur18 May 2015 at 16:21

    Amazing paint work and conversions on these!

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  6. Kike19 May 2015 at 04:01

    Great job with these highlanders!

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  7. Sun of York19 May 2015 at 07:26

    Brilliant work with these figures. I've painted all I ever want to of highlanders. I still have a few spare and this post has me tempted, but the figures are so old plastic rot has set in - they would shatter if I took a knife to them.

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    1. Paul´s Bods19 May 2015 at 23:32

      Thanks.
      Try putting them (the brittle ones) in brakefluid..one or two to test. It sorted the brittleness out on some of my Airfix Napoleonic hussars.

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  8. Paul Howes19 May 2015 at 11:17

    Amazing painting and Splendid show Paul,those highlanders are looking well fit to see off the French advance.
    My rubber AIRFIX fellows are in Landfill somewhere in the U K!. I must say I don`t miss them. BB

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    1. Paul´s Bods19 May 2015 at 23:34

      Thanks Paul.
      I have a dream..to excavate old landfill sites. Plastic (in the main) doesn´t suffer from being buried, so there must be tons of stuff down there.

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  9. Anonymous19 May 2015 at 13:22

    Very nice. The modified ones look much more lifelike. I'm tempted but I recently painted a unit of Kennington Highlanders and I don't want to do any tartan again!

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  10. Sam Wise20 May 2015 at 02:05

    excellent work !
    they seem to be not so easy to paint! I like the tartans : very effective painting work !

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  11. Russ21 May 2015 at 02:13

    Fantastic work, you really do stunning work

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  12. Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)22 May 2015 at 14:42

    Fab. Can't get enough of these. Your Airfix conversions are inspirational.

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  13. Geordie an Exiled FoG27 May 2015 at 15:30

    Nice painting of some classic figures

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  14. Lord Hill7 July 2015 at 15:14

    Magnifient! Love the clever officer conversions

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