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Stranglely enough, that describes the chap and is the name of one of the marches of the 93rd! When we last saw our intrepid hero, he didn’t look like this.

So most of the in-between stuff was fairly simple base/shade/highlight with various colours and that is why I chose not to show and not because I got carried away and forgot to take progress pictures. Not at all. It’s not that I’m an idiot. I meant to do it… Help?

So the interesting parts would be the rifle, which I decided to ‘brown’ slightly with Agrax Earthshade simply because the colourised image shows a wearing away of a finish where the socket bayonet was taken on and off the muzzle, but the colours were simple enough. Another part was the socks. They have an interesting almost faded red pattern that I was originally not going to attempt, but then I accidentally thinned some red too thin and thought ‘let’s just try it’. Just some simple lines were painted in in the same pattern as the references. It’s not perfect, but it gets the idea across. The small white symbol on the water canteen in a broadhead arrow that I attempted to draw as this was the mark of the Board of Ordinance and showed government ownership over things; this would also be stamped into the bayonet, rifle, and various other things in the soldier kit.

While some of the black material was painted the traditional way, I did paint the hat using a Contrast method, and the skin was done in Contrast as well. All that’s left is the magnificent beard!

The most important thing here was colour choice. I had to stay clear of braight oranges because that would just make our man look like some sort of anime character with a fake beard. I went for slightly muted colours and make sure that I used Agrax Earthshade to add in the browner base tone to the hair. After that a very gentle overbrush of the Tau Light Ochre was used to just hit the lower beard a hint of brightness. I’m rather please with how it came out and just added that perfect final touch to the burly Scotsman.

Finally I painted the base in a flat brown just to tidy up paint spillage. As it stands, this chap it not planned to be part of any army, but that may change in the far future so I wanted to leave the base neat, but not based…just in case. And here is the man of the hour!

And to think, I managed all these posts and never once made a Crimea river joke! DAMMIT!