Research

Lord, it’s hard work researching the uniforms and equipment for these figures. You’d think one picture would do, but really you need every possible angle covered if the sculptor is going to have a chance of producing an accurate figure.

You’d think, having picked the army of my own country, from less than 125 years ago that it would be easy wouldn’t you? I can assure you it’s not! My sympathy lies with anyone trying to produce figures for the 1750 Dagestani Civil War or other such obscure (or in the case of the Dagestani Civil War, made up) conflict.

During my online research I was fortunate enough to come across the website of the Diehards Reinactment group (please see my links for their website). The website is great, full of fantastic photographs and information. Hoping that I might get a little more useful information I emailed Tim Rose, one of the contacts given on the site. Tim has been fantastic, answering my questions about uniforms, tactics and unit composition with a great deal of patience.

I’m hoping to meet up with the Diehards when they visit Osbourne House on the Island in May. I’m also hoping to convince them to pose for photos which I will then base the figures on!