A British signaler taking carrier pigeons to the forward line. A figure in 1:35 scale for scenes of trench warfare.
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During the war the British army built up a carrier pigeon service that grew from an improvisation into a regular specialty with its own keepers, veterinarians and hundreds of field lofts. About one hundred thousand birds passed through it and the delivery rate held well above ninety percent. The reason was simple: a cable could be cut and a runner could be captured, but a bird heading for home was stopped only by a coincidence.
The birds were taken to machine gun nests and forward posts alive, in wicker baskets carried on the back or borne on the rack of a machine. There was no time to spare, because a pigeon shut in a basket lost condition and the route led through shot-up ground with no usable road. It is just this stretch of the service that the casting catches, the moment when a soldier with his load heads for the front line.
The combination of uniform, leather straps and woven basket brings three different surfaces together on one figure, which is a rewarding exercise: wool cloth takes drybrushing on the edges, leather calls for a sheen, wicker comes alive only with a glaze drawn into the crevices. It pays to work from the darkest shade upward.
Before priming, remove the remains of the sprue nubs with a saw and degrease the surface with lukewarm water and detergent. Cyanoacrylate glue will do the bonding, and on larger mating faces a two-part resin more reliably. The manufacturer also offers the wicker baskets as a separate item if you want to extend the scene.
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