- Scale
- 1:35
- Size
- 75 mm
- Category
- Miniature
Redcap on a Rimu Block
A Royal Military Police corporal on traffic duty, mounted on recycled native timber.
Price
NZ$185
plus shipping from New Zealand
One of one
Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 2.8x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
Military policemen got the name redcap from the scarlet cover on their caps, and getting that red to sit right on something this small was the whole project. Too bright and he looks like a toy; too dark and he looks like he is wearing a beetroot. I ended up with a crimson base, glazed up with orange and a touch of white on the crown.
He has his arm raised to hold the traffic, white gauntlets and a white belt, and the MP armband is hand-lettered with the finest brush I own. You need a magnifier to read it, but it does say MP.
The base is a block of rimu salvaged from an old Wellington villa floorboard. I sanded it, oiled it, and let the grain do the talking. He would look right on a desk, a bookshelf, or next to someone who likes to keep things in order.
— Sunanda