Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on March 17, 2019, 02:50:44 PM
Title: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Harry Faversham on March 17, 2019, 02:50:44 PM
More like... on mi' 'ead son! Buglehorn badge on the stovepipe shako... brass or silver metal?
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Title: Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on March 17, 2019, 06:47:32 PM
Assuming you are talking about the Napoleonic period, then both the 43rd and 52nd had silver officers' lace, so "white metal" shako badges.
Title: Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Harry Faversham on March 18, 2019, 08:22:21 PM
That's what I thought initially, but I've seen 28mm 52nd Light Infantry figures, with brass buglehorn badges... so now I'm more confused that ever!
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Title: Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on March 18, 2019, 11:28:28 PM
Are they from a later period, perhaps?
Title: Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Jemima Fawr on March 19, 2019, 07:17:04 AM
As I understand it, shako badges, breast-plates, etc, were generally brass, regardless of officers' metal-colour. However, some officers could have silvered items. Nothing is ever straightforward in the British Army...
Title: Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
Post by: Jemima Fawr on March 19, 2019, 07:21:28 AM
On a similar vein, ORs' buttons were always pewter and officers' shako-cords on 1812 Pattern shakos also tended to be gold, even when the metal colour was silver.