FIXED BAYONET 38 The Oak Dollis Park London N.3 (Finchley Central) UK E.mail gary.byrne@libero.it   Soldier Range Napoleonic: French Sharpshooter firing French sharpshooter adv running with bayonet French Sharpshooter loadingFrench sharpshooter falling wounded Connaught Ranger adv bayonet Rifleman Harris firing Rifleman at the ready to fire French Imperial Guard adv (nearly done) London Wapping Volunteers firing Foreign Legion Range: Terence Hill from film March or Die Standing firing machine gun from hipmachine gun from hip. Gene Hackman from same film firing revolver Cross of Iron WW2: James Coburn firing machine gun James Mason firing Machine gun Coming: Toy soldier range some remakes in metal) Amercian Civil war Crimean War More Napoleonic WW2 Russians The Forgotten Army Burma (Aussies) The Italians in Libya 1911

PAINTING
Humbrol paints have been used exclusively (except Lemon Yellow - Tamiya - for Prussian trousers).
Have a look at my tips on face painting to see how I

PHOTOGRAPHY
was done using natural light with Fuji 35 mm colour negative film, taken with a Pentax MX, using a Tamron 28-85mm zoom lens. The photographs were scanned using a UMAX Astra 610S scanner, with further image processing using Paintshop Pro.

REPAIRS
I have now taken on some repairs of old broken toy soldiers that I found in a military antique shop.
They were Britains 2nd Grade painted series, 2 had broken legs, but the parts were there. Someone had attempted to paint them , so as their originality was destroyed, I took up the task of restoration. This involved pinning the broken legs, making a hoof for one horse, then the painting.
 

Original condition	Restored