Hello folks,
I had these front rank figure i bought few months back, it is a mounted American officer wich i cut his riding legs i don't remeber why and was staring at me in hope i wouldn't forget about him.
So i decide it to put him to some use.
I cutted the leng on the lapels, shaved the turndown collar and added the stand up one, reshapen the edges of the top lapels.
The legs are from a 40mm figure from Trident, so i glued the top and bottom together , added some putty and modified the turnbacks, added the lower part of the vest and built the carry on map bag.
I still need to add the double vertical pockets which will cover most of the imperfections on the back.
The topographical ingeneers were a separate entity from the Army and their job was to survey the terrain and make maps.
Their uniform was a very distintive , dark blue coat with Aurore (orange-yellow) collar, lapels and cuffs with silver buttons and lace.
The breeches , waist coat and turnbacks were white .
Cheers

A very well detailed piece Daniel.
Interesting to see how tou bring it out with your brushes.
Cheers,
Keith

Thanks my friend, we'll see how it looks when done.
Regards

Hello folks
finally some progress on this chap.
For the dark blue coat i've use a mix of dark prussian blue, dab of vallejo navy blue and a dab of Andrea dark blue.
As for the silver lace, i've mixed vallejo silver grey and a dab of silver.

Finished the hat and lapels.
For the Aurore facings i've used jo sonja's Aurore with a dab of basic red to start a mid tone, progressively added aurore till last light in pure aurore.
Added some yellow ink to blend and make the color a little alive since jo sonja's aceylics dey up very matt.