The latest from Greg Liska
I use the Marx 7th Cav figures as dismounted cavalry. Calvary increasingly fought dismounted during the war. Gen. Joe Wheeler (Cavalry CO, Army of the Tennessee) was especially adept at it, using the heavily wooded terrain often encountered in the Western Theater of the war to conduct ambushes and even sometimes assaults. So, as important as it was to have mounted buglers, I had too many of them on foot. Here’s what I did with them. I need to trim some flash off of them that was not apparent until after the bugle went away. The pics really show it. Hope I manage to entertain.
Pretty good. I would have tried giving him a flap holster and a new straight left arm firing a pistol. Might have been tough to find a left hand firing a pistol though. That’s just me though, I like the action poses. I often find myself buying some loose figures just for what I can use them for later on conversions.I must have 20 Ideal Pirate figures of the the guy with two flintlocks and none of them have hands. Of course they are all re-casts.
Looked to me like he was reaching for another cartridge in that pouch. Much more likely than the 2 weapon slinger thing. I absolutely hate those comic book character type poses. The worst one was the TSSD GI with a .45 in one hand and the M-1 (with bayonet attached!) in the other, firing in 2 different direction. A pose from the cheesiest of modern day action films. He won’t hit anything and he sure won’t be accurate enough to suppress (especially in 2 different directions). Wait until he pulls the trigger on that M-1, too. That 30.06 round will break his wrist! No Sir, if my guy here has his carbine couched like that, he’s got time to reach for the cartridge. If he was so pressed he needed his pistol (short, short range) then he would have put that carbine down.
make a nice Confederate !
nice work Greg !
Thanks, Mark. I’m working largely one handed these days. Awaiting a date for shoulder surgery.