Friday, June 20, 2025

Distractions, Always Distractions

I was clearing up my increasingly cluttered table when I came upon this figure, mostly painted. The figure was (I think) meant to be either blocking or about to club someone. A pose I hadn't seen in an ACW set. (According to Plastic Soldier Review he's from an  Accurate set.)

I didn't have any room for another regiment, and I didn't feel like prying another figure off a base to replace it with this guy. So, I cut the musket away from his left hand and using a little soldering iron to coax the right arm to twist back, then finished painting him. 

He'll now be another casualty marker for when a stand is removed after receiving 6 hits.

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  1. An excellent idea imho.
    Alan Tradgardland

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  2. Yes, a great way of using a surplus figure. I do wonder, though, whether his 'red badge of courage' would be so visible immediately after he has been hit - artistic licence to make clear he's a casualty?

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    1. OK, I'll confess. I finished painting him, went to take the picture and there was a patch of unpainted plastic in between his head and his hand. The paints were away but on my palette, there was still a small puddle of red paint..... so.....the poor guy was soon hit twice by the storm of Reb bullets! :)

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