Replicant 54mm English Civil War figures.

 First the Parliamentary forces. Colonel Nicholas Devereux's Regiment of Foot.  Mostly REPLICANT brand figures with a few Call To Arms figures to fill up the ranks. 

Fixing Expeditionary Force British Light Infantry.

 I'm adding 9 more X-Force figures to my War of 1812 British forces. With X-Force sets getting hard to get because of the illness of the owner I picked up sets that I could including Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The basic figures are OK but you should remove the King's ciphers from the cartridge boxes and knapsack for the unit I chose, the 43rd Regiment of Foot. They were at New Orleans.  The Brown Bess muskets have no slings, so I made some.  I should have removed half of the cuff buttons as there are too many going round the cuffs. 

                            Here a few images of the 43rd. 

Modern images showing the 43rd in action at New Orleans.

Paragon Painted Alamo Mexicans

    These Paragon figures were a LOT of work . Details had to be cut away or thinned like the camera case haversacks, the extra shako chin straps, and bayonet slings with the empty sword socket.   Added details were the shako cords that I made from twisted metal wire and the painted on shako plate.   There are numerous  modern interpretations of 1836 Mexican uniforms including reenactors.   I tried to follow them in converting these figures.                        

                                        The Ladder Men. 

Firing up poses. 

Useless Sergeant/Officer/Pistol Guy converted to Ladder Holder. New hands of wife and white glue, sword scabbard removed and replaced with tooth pick wood. Silly pistol holster was cut away. 

A few ladders were issued to each attacking columns. There are Mexican after action reports that the ladders were lost in the confusion. Some Mexican troops scrambled over the walls or entered by broken doors and gates in the walls. 

Pioneer Sappers. A term I found  is  "Gastador" rather than the "Zapadores". This may be the proper name for Sappers attached to regiments rather than the elite engineer unit. These troops where featured in a scene from the recent 2004  Alamo film attacking the West Wall of the compound. 

Orders to each attacking column included a few axes and picks issued to the men. Perhaps the  "Gastadores"  weren't there at all.