Here is the first, painted as the 52nd Light Infantry.
These are great figures and you can see what an average painter can get these to look like after only a few days of work. I would love to see what some of the masters on this site could do with this set.
Regrets...I've had a few. I did not spend much time at all trimming mold lines from these figures. They are made from a rubbery type of plastic and attempts with an X-Acto knife only left stubble and sometime cut into the detail. Next time I will try a hot needle. I printed the flags from the Warflags site and should have reduced the image just a bit more though I did go over them with paint for better blending and to cover where the edges meet. Strangely and for some reason, I did them separately so I did not get the folds to match as if the wind would be coming from the same direction. I usually bend them over brush handles side by side while the Elmer's (white glue) is still wet on the paper so the folds are dried in.
These are for wargaming and are meant to be seen "en masse" on the table with 20 other units. Perhaps a mistake to take pictures so close but I wanted viewers to see, not my results, but the potential these figures have. I did not try to paint the bugle badge on the cap but for those purists separate heads are provided for head swaps. Hopefully the green plume and swallow wings on the shoulders will be enough for players to denote them as British light infantry. Also it is my understanding that ensigns in the light infantry wore shako's. For my line units they will be wearing the included bicorn hats.
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. That plastic can truly be a huge PIA, but I've found it's easier and cleaner to trim the figures if they're given a primer coat first.
