20 March 2021

German and American "volunteers" in British colonial service

Feeling nostalgic and working on some British colonial era troops I was inspired by an article by "C. Jones" on modeling the Zulu War with 20mm Airfix figures that I found in an old July 1967 edition of the Airfix magazine.

As per the magazine article I used Airfix WW1 Germans.


I added heads with the pith hemets from the Esci/Italeri British colonial sets, and also used some more recent figures that weren't available when the author wrote his article, a couple of Imex ACW figures and a Revell WW1 German





The cavalry and horse-drawn artillery look like they might be nice future conversions.

10 comments:

  1. Very good conversion! I will use your ideas one time in the future.

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    1. Thanks a lot, and I hope to see them in the near future !!

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  2. Nice conversions! Creativity is one of the best aspects of this hobby, and I always admire people with a lot of imagination.

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  3. They look great John, nice job!

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    1. Thanka a lot Phil and for passing by 👍

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  4. Nice work. Converting figures is half of the fun in this hobby. Thousands of figures but always need something different.
    I just bought a load of airfix magazines from the buy and sell ads. All 1960s and 70s. Lots of good figure conversion ideas.
    Keep up the good work John. I appreciate it.

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    1. Appreciate the comments ! I'm sure you'll enjoy those mags, they're well worth a good re-read anytime.

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