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Thursday, 17 May 2018

French Line Carabiniers

Next up on the painting table are some JC recast French Line Carabiniers. The unit consists of 11 FN311 Line Carabiniers and 1 single figure casting FN106.


I decided to try and make a trumpeter using the FN106. Using my dremel I removed the carbine, cuirass, cartridge box an belt.

I tried making a trumpet however I could not get a reasonable result.  I therefore made one using  the trumpet and hand from a plastic Zveszda SYW Prussian Hussar.


Where the Carbine had been a used the point of a file to dot the metal to look like a sheepskin.


Finally I used a little bit of Miliput to add a sword hilt. I also used Miliput on the bases of all the cavalry to fill and smooth the bases.




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4 comments:

  1. Aly Morrison17 May 2018 at 12:28

    Nicely done Mark...

    I may be repeating myself here...

    Conversion’s are addictive... ;-)

    You do one or two ...next thing you know... it’s 40 years and you’ve made a career out of it...:-0

    All the the best. Aly

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  2. Stryker17 May 2018 at 13:09

    Clever idea using the plastic trumpet it'll be good to see how he paints up!

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  3. Wellington Man18 May 2018 at 02:24

    That is a very handsome set of castings, Mark. I'm very keen to see what you do with them!

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  4. Phil18 May 2018 at 10:18

    Very nicely done!

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