American Civil War and the Boxer Rebellion

As I started to grow more confident in my sculpting, I selected simple uniforms so as not to get caught up with doing too much historical research. The ACW offered diverse looking troops with simple cut tunics and trousers.

The references came from another Blandford book. Those illustrations were terrific, although somewhat short of detail in comparison to what one can get nowadays. However, they did give a great overall feel and range of period uniforms at an affordable price.

 

A Lousiana Wheat's Tiger Zouave charging through a wheatfield  and a negro soldier milking a goat was selected as a pairing. Heads and hands were sourced from Airfix or other commercial parts, and the muskets were from the Napoleonic  era. The goat was a toy figure.

 

 

I also made several figures from the Boxer Rebellion but only this Royal Marines Officer has survived. All Airfix parts except for the Helmet which was from Chota Sahib.

 

A couple of uncompleted figures - A Royal Marine soldier and a proposed Tientsin volunteer. I used two types of epoxy putty - Milliput and Duro. Sometimes I mixed the two types.