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La Meridiana Ticonderoga

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
La Meridiana Ticonderoga
Posted by ajlafleche on Friday, March 29, 2013 10:56 PM

Here are two (large) 54mm figures from La Meridiana representing the French and English at the battle for  Ticonderoga/Fort Carillion in 1758. The Frenchman is a halberdier in the uniform of the Languedoc Regiment and is stock and posed on a La Meridiana base. The Scot is in a modified uniform of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, the Black Watch. He is sculpted in kilt and leggings with moccasins to better deal with the wilds of the frontier. His coat appears to have been cut down from a regulation frock and sports leather elbow patches and chest pockets. I haven’t seen other references to this, however. The highlanders depicted in Ospreys’ Highlanders of the French and Indian War were better armed than the sculpting so I added a scratchbuilt Highland pistol and sporran, a belly cartridge box, bayonet,  dagger and  sword.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • From: Arizona
Posted by dudley on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 9:54 AM

Nicely done!  Did you freehand the pattern on the kilt?

DudleyAz

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    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:24 PM

Thanks. Yes, I tried a masking technique and was unhappy with it. Then made several more atempts before giving up with this one. Several of the club members thought it looked fine even though I wassn't especially happy with it.

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