One of my ideas for Sharp Practice is to run a scenario that involves the Mississippi Marine Brigade assaulting Confederate defensive positions along the river. Along the front of the rebels' position would be a line of pickets in makeshift rifle pits.
Using bits from my stash of spare parts I was able to make these guys...
As with the earlier Confederate dismounted cavalry, the torsos are from the Warlord WSS Cavalry boxed set. A couple of the heads are from the Warlord Colonial Militia, while the rest were cobbled together by cutting down Perry Zouaves' heads and adding hats from the same company's ACW infantry. The Perry set also provided the muskets.
One figure has acquired a cavalryman's trumpet, presumably to augment the rebel yell when necessary. A chap in the rear rank has a repeating carbine from the ACW cavalry box while the chap at the centre of the front rank holds a beer bottle that I turned on a makeshift lathe from a length of wooden cocktail stick!
Total cost - negligible; probably the most expensive thing being the four round MDF bases. Even the two oval ones were cut out of spare material.
There are a few more cavalry torsos left in the spares box and I might have a go at using a couple of them to complete a US engineer bridge demolition team. Pictures to follow later!
4 comments:
Great bit of kitbashing Mr C 👍
Very effective use of resources. They look great.
Great way to use spare figures and something I have pondered doing in the past too.
Thanks all. I would certainly recommend this approach. One of these guys was made using a cut-down torso-with-cuirass. This just goes to show that with a little judicious carving and use in a suitably hidden position you can't away with a lot!
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