It’s About Time!

The figures arrived on June 29, 2004. My cold turkey experiment is proving more challenging than I had expected, so this little fix will help take the edge off. (However, since “free samples” don’t count as inventory, neither does painting them count as progress toward the inventory reduction goal.)

Here’s what I got. A small WSS Army. What the heck is WSS you ask? Why, it’s the War of Spanish Succession, of course. Here’s what it looks like

And here is a close up of one infantry unit (3 line stands, plus one command stand). These are straight out of the packet - I haven’t even trimmed the bayonets!

Looking closely at the figures it’s pretty hard to make out any detail. The metal is quite shiny and the reflections tend to obscure the detail. I can, however, make out some details - like the saddle bags on the troopers; infantry cross belts, and hoops on the drums. In each cavalry unit there are two stands, one of which is a command stand with a molded flag. I’m not sure how I’m going to tackle those!

Clean Up In Aisle 4 - Don’t Bring A Knife

The figures had almost no flash to speak of. All I had to do was file the bases smooth (very little work here). Then I used a pair of sprue cutters to trim off what little flash there was. Mostly this was just vent flow at the end of bayonets and the like. Again, not much too it to clean up all 26 stands. Straighten a few flag poles and you’re set.

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