The majority of British and Anzac infantry at the Gallipoli landings of the 25th of April had the Service Dress Cap with no Brodie helmets arriving, apparently, during the campaign. For many decades the only source of early British infantry was Airfix. Not bad figures but with several relatively useless figures for wargaming, that at least can be a good source of heads. In recent days Hat released a small box with 32 beautiful early British infantry figures and all these were mixed together with conversions from the Emhar late war figures .
Airfix (olive green), Hat (bottle green) and Emhar (grey) are all very different both in design as in size (Hat are large 1/72 while others are closer to normal 1/72). The surplus Airfix figures gave heads to the Emhar figures and backpacks to the Hat ones.
In order to create a certain uniformity the Airfix figures got bayonets from stiff fibers taken from a plasticbroom stick . They were glued with superglue, then primed like the rest of the models with black acrylic and PVA glue and, finally varnished which made a strong bond between the the two types of plastic.
The Airfix charging figure got the company of an Hat Anzac officer and two Hat figures.
The Emhar Vickers MMG No1 crewman got an Airfix head. The two other are Airfix without any change.
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lovely work mate, a very interesting and original topic. The old Aifix figures are hard to work with but you've done really good work with these
ReplyDeleteThanks AI. The Airfix WW1 British are nor easy as we can only use a few of its poses but mixed with others I think a group becomes better.
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