Not had a lot of time to move this forward but done a few things-
I sculpted cloaks with hood flying behind on these running figures. Again early days for green stuff using but I am quite pleased with the animation of the hoods and cloaks.
Been thinking of what shades of green to use and have tried some light and dark shades out on these figures.
I looked at Kibbo Kift flags and artwork to see what green was used.
So I think I will use a variety of shades when painting the figures.
I'd never heard of the KK. Certainly a different look to these. Will they see action soon? Are Baden Powell units their natural foe?
ReplyDeleteWhat next, "The Life Saving Guards" and "Sunbeams" and their male equivalent "Life Saving Scouts" and "The Chums"?
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The Kibbo Kift Kindred KK or KKK were formed by John Hargrave as part of a reaction to the perceived ‘militarism’ of Baden Powell’s Scouts; Hargrave had been their bushcraft adviser, author of Lonecraft and artist on The Scout magazine until the split late / after WW1. Hargrave served at Gallipoli I believe as a medic. It sort of survives in mutated form as The Woodcraft Folk.
ReplyDeleteHis wife Ruth Clark wrote the first bushcraft book for what became the British version of the (USA) Camp Fire Girls, a Book endorsed when written by Olave Lady Baden Powell Chief Guide.
The Salvation Army Life Saving Scouts and Guards (Guides) including the (“Jesus wants me for a”) Sunbeams and Chums younger children that you mentioned were a parallel version worldwide of Scouts and Guides - interesting ideological times the 1910s 1920s 1930s for many such now vanished youth groups.
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There is more about each group on my Wide Games tabletop gaming blog for Wide Games that Alan and I have been working on: https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/salvation-army-life-saving-scouts-and-guards-guides-1913-1950s/
Hah....I could have saved myself a Google search, taking me to a Guardian article on a book written about this organisation ..... Of which I had never heard. Mark above has provided a potted history that gives a good idea of what they were all about. It was a tiny organisation, though...maximum total membership around 1000 and never more than a few hundred at one time ....it later evolved into a more militarist type unit, wearing berets, green shirts and grey trousers by the mid 1930's and getting into street marches like the BUF and others. It's odd to think how prevalent all this militancy was in Thirties Britain.....it's all been so over shadowed by the Nazis, Fascists and Francos Spain that our collective memory it ever happened has been erased?
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