Boy Scouts

[ge_rik]

Does anyone know where I can get models of boy scouts in our scale? Greg (gregh) very kindly bequeathed his win on the photo competition to me as he felt the postal costs to Oz would be prohibitive and I have just taken delivery of some very nice stone walls from Pendlebury. My plan is to make a small camping field on which a troop of Aussie boy scouts is on an expedition to Peckforton. It would help if I could source a few figures.

Rik

 

[PhilP]

First thing will be to research what Aussie Boy Scouts wear.. Bet it is not the same as here??

 

[PhilP]

So far, this is the only link I have found..
2011, and a quick scan does not give scale..

http://www.collectors-club-of-great-britain.co.uk/Features/Brand-new-toy-figures-from-Tony-Burley-Boy-Scout-Models-October-2011/_ft1143

 

[sparky230]

Austrailian Scout uniform http://www.thescoutsshop.com.au/shop/category/30/uniform

Uk Scout Uniform http://shop.scouts.org.uk/c-169-shirts-t-shirts.aspx

i've got that BP spirit, that Bp spirit

 

[TLR]

Austrailian Scout uniform http://www.thescoutsshop.com.au/shop/category/30/uniform

Uk Scout Uniform http://shop.scouts.org.uk/c-169-shirts-t-shirts.aspx

i've got that BP spirit, that Bp spirit

5 star as I recall helped many camp fire to get started!!

Shaun

 

[sparky230]

5 star as I recall helped many camp fire to get started!!

Shaun

We used to use Percy's Magic Water (Esso blue variety)

 

[KandNWLR]

We used to use Percy's Magic Water (Esso blue variety)

Paraffin-wax fire lighters = "Magic sticks". To kept in plastic in the the woods to avoid detection.

 

[ge_rik]

My model is set in the 1930s so I'd imagine it was all short trousers and woggles in those days - and certainly no gals :-\ I might be able to modify some short trousered boy figures if necessary. I see ModelTown has one boy figure but I could do with some other poses.

Rik

 

[mike]

have you thoought about a cake decorating shop? for the smaller football players,ect, might be repaintable into shorts and a top?

 

[sparky230]

My model is set in the 1930s so I'd imagine it was all short trousers and woggles in those days - and certainly no gals :-\ I might be able to modify some short trousered boy figures if necessary. I see ModelTown has one boy figure but I could do with some other poses.

Rik

Any of The 1930's scout uniforms would have been similar, long shorts, shirts, wide brimmed hat, scarf, karki type colours, scarfs would be the colours of local group, yellows. blues. greens, etc or 2 colours outer edge different colour from main colour, gives stripe effect when rolled.

I have a wide scouting Knowledge, having been a cub, scout, venture and a leader, before it got polictal and i got out

 

[ge_rik]

have you thoought about a cake decorating shop? for the smaller football players,ect, might be repaintable into shorts and a top?

Great idea Mike, thanks.

Any of The 1930's scout uniforms would have been similar, long shorts, shirts, wide brimmed hat, scarf, karki type colours, scarfs would be the colours of local group, yellows. blues. greens, etc or 2 colours outer edge different colour from main colour, gives stripe effect when rolled.
I have a wide scouting Knowledge, having been a cub, scout, venture and a leader, before it got polictal and i got out

Thanks Sparky. That's how I imagined it. I assume Baden Powell was still in evidence and what he said presumably applied the world over. This is the sort of thing I had in mind.....

Rik

 

[ge_rik]

These are NZ scouts in the 1930s - the uniform looks ..... well .... fairly uniform



Rik

 

[sparky230]

Uniforms were Fairly Uniform (note the pun) until the mid 1970's

First major changes were long trousers for scouts and the change to the Beret, Cub scout jumpers stayed the same from the 50's to the 90's when they changed to sweatshirts. Scout shirt colours also changed in the 90's

 

[spoz]

In the fifties (I can't speak for the thirties) the scarves were state based; that is each State, which is or at least was effectively self administering from a scout perspective with the Governor as the Chief Scout, had its own distinctive design of neck wear which all the scouts in that state wore. I think (but can't precisely remember) that the woggle were also state based. Troop allegiance was indicated by a shoulder flash (I was 1st Malvern); our scarf had a piping shrike, the SA state emblem, in a white circle on a sort of brunswick green background from what I can remember, it is after all 50+ years ago! Otherwise the uniform was pretty much as pictured for the Kiwis above, noting tha the group seated in the front are almost certainly cubs not scouts, although I think our hats had a lower crown than that; those ones look identical to the Kiwi army hat and ours were not. The colour was overall kharki; hat, shorts, shirts and long socks, with black shoes. The lanyard was white, as were the rank markings on the left shirt pocket (two stripes for a patrol leader, one for a patrol second and three for a troop leader).