The conversion is pretty simple, Chick. It's a Brigade Games KAR bugler. Very nice figures. The covered pill-box hat has been turned into a covered fez simply by extending the height of it with modelling putty, and the 08 pattern equipment modified in the same way to make it resemble the earlier pattern (also some of the excess bits of webbing that hang down from the o8 pattern were filed off). The collar buttons on the KAR blouse were filed off and the collar tidied up a bit, and it was then painted as a blue jersey rather than as a khaki blouse.
Ideally the rifle should be replaced with a Martini-Enfield, or at least turned from a SMLE into a Long Lee, but I was fearful of wrecking the figure, and didn't think anyone would notice.
Luckily he has his sleeves rolled up, so nothing needed to be done to make the jersey cuffs. Unfortunately about half of the prospective candidates for my section have their sleeves down, so some work will need to be done there. Also some are wearing boots, which is unfortunate, but in my laziness I think I shall probably let that go.
former user, I'm struggling to remember the details of the painting. The jersey is just black mixed with a bit of blue, and I think the khaki bits are Coat d'Arms Horse Tone Dun mixed with GW Graveyard earth, and then given several layers of highlights of Horse Tone Dun + ever increasing amounts of white. There may be some yellow in the mix, too. I don't remember. The skin was done in my usual manner, which has been described several times in the various "Back to Africa" threads. Nothing special in the technique, just mutiple layers of highlighting. I find it a good policy when you think you have done enough highlighting to always go back and do at least one more layer. I find it sometimes catapults the figure to the next level doing this.
