Hi all,
It's been a good while since I've posted anything here.
Hope you'll forgive me for my first post back is to ask for help

I've been working on the Carl Reid Fusilier bust from Model Cellar.
Wow..what an excellent piece. Hat's off to Mr. Reid and to Paul for the casting too.

My question concerns the ammunition pouches and belt. Every version I've seen painted (along with the box art) shows these items as leather. And the way they're sculpted, leather seems exactly right.
Problem is that everything I've found on line for this shows them as being cloth. Sort of a greenish khaki color.
Can anyone out there help me out with this? Were these items also made out of leather? Or is the khaki color the way to go here?

Anyway...here are some in progress shots.
The cloth was the second attempt to get a color that I thought looked okay. Used up a lot of oil paint but that's a big part of the fun of oils, isn't it? Still needs to get the secondary wet-on-dry highlights.
And the color around the face and hands was just an acrylic to give me some contrast to the skintone.
Also, you can see that I've opted not to use the kit supplied pedestal and that I've filled in the texture on the back of the piece. I thought the kit looked pretty cool as is but I just felt like doing this to mine.
Any suggestions or constructive criticism is as always appreciated too
Thanks,
Craig

Hi Craig,
nice work so far.
not sureif this will help but this is 1908 pattern webbing.
Best Regards
Paul

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the picture. Pretty much matches what I found on line.
Craig

The "S" belt buckle means that it's the leather P14 set too.

Nice work so far Craig.

Everything you need to know... and more, can be found here;

http://www.karkeeweb.com/1914main.html

Roger.

I too like how you filled in the back, that detail is the single reason I have never painted one of his busts. i just can't seem to get over that detail but i also never thought of filling it in. I may now be freed up to paint one. BTW, the rest of your painting is coming along swimmingly.

Craig,
Coming along nicely.
Cheers
John

I would venture to suggest that this figure is wearing leather equipment because he is a member of a Territorial (a part time) battalion.
Tom

Hi guys,
Thanks for the help with my question.

Nap, Changing the pouches would be an interesting conversion but something way beyond my skills
And you're right, the texturing to the back does make Carl's work instantly recognizable. If I had used the kit pedestal, then I wouldn't have filled it in. The biggest reason I didn't use it was that I didn't have a suitable base that would work with the piece without it becoming way too tall.
When I decided not to use the pedestal, filling in the back just seemed to be the thing to do.

And Roger, a special thanks to you for that link. Great site! Very helpful.
Craig

Hi Kevin,
I think I see what you're talking about with the stripes.
In one of the other threads about this piece, some guys were talking about painting the stiching to the stripes and the picture below was posted.

http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37136&highlight=trenches&page=2

But I'm too far along try changing the stripes now. I'm still just tryng to get things done again
Thanks,
Craig

Out of intrest, what singles the figure out as a Territorial?

Nothing. I would hazard that territorials would have P.08 webbing. The 1914 leather equipment would more likely be worn by the Service battalions of Kitcheners New Army. I might be wrong but isn't he wearing regular army Royal Fusiliers shoulder titles and the RF didn't have any territorial bns. although some units of the London regt. were affiliated to it.

An explanation can be found here,
http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1914/1914_introduction.html

Roger.

Just out of interest the Royal Fusiliers raised 47 battalions during the Great War. Although I can see what Tom was getting at there's no way you could tell a mans battalion, Regular, Territorial or New Army, from the type of equipment he's wearing.

Lol, I mentioned rivet counters to Mark (Gothic Geek) the other day and listen to me

Roger.

Gary,
I painted that bust, and I did the strips as showed. The bust must have that. It looks better with the painted stripes.
Be aware that there is one row that the stitches are an other direction.
This is my version: