16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket First Legion-Late War Germans This figure of Don McCullin

This figure of Don McCullin is based on an actual photo of him taken by fellow photojournalist Nik Wheeler in Hue during the battle

that the price of freedom is never free

In movies and television he has been portrayed by many talented actors but perhaps the best was Basil Rathbone in the 1938 Errol Flynn “The Adventures of Robin Hood

and gained considerable influence in the latter years of Nicholas’ reign

our intention is to produce groups of interrelated figures much the same as we do with our 60mm ranges such that dioramas and displays can be setup in this wonderful scale

16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket First Legion-Late War Germans This figure of Don McCullinThere are a series of 12 actions needed to load and fire a flintlock musket this soldier is on step eight. He has already primed the pan and returned the frizzen. He has poured gunpowder down the guns barrel, seated a ball in a portion of wadding paper at the barrels opening. He has removed the ramrod from its storage pipe and channel beneath the barrel and is preparing to ram the wadding and ball down the barrel to the end of the tube (the breech),