The Scots Guards are the senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, formed in 1642 and one of the five regiments that make up the Household Division's Foot Guards. They have served everywhere the British Army has fought since — the wars of Marlborough, the Peninsular campaign, Waterloo, the Crimea, the trenches of the Great War, the desert in 1942, the Falklands in 1982 — but their public face is the ceremonial duty in London: guarding the royal palaces, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament. The Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards have been part of that public role since the regiment first incorporated pipers in the eighteenth century. This figure is a Scots Guards side drummer in the standing-at-attention position, in the ceremonial dress uniform: scarlet tunic with the "Fleur-de-Lis" lace pattern that dates to the period when English monarchs claimed the throne of France, padded shoulder wings (originally protective against downward sword cuts and now retained as a musician's distinguishing mark), white cross-belts, dark trousers with the regimental red stripe, and the bearskin cap worn without a plume — the small detail that distinguishes Scots Guards from the four other Foot Guards regiments. He carries the side drum on a white sling at his right hip, sticks in hand. He works as a ceremonial centerpiece on his own, especially paired with the Edinburgh Castle Gateway or a British Guard Box for an authentic display setting. Collectors building a full Scots Guards Pipes and Drums display will want at least three or four drummers. 1/30 scale, matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number CE120. As with the rest of the King & Country Ceremonial range, the painting holds to parade-ground detail intended to read well in display.
