Scots Guards Bass Drummer

Every Foot Guards Pipes and Drums band has exactly one Bass Drummer. The bass drum is the heartbeat of the band — the deep, slow pulse the marching soldiers and the rest of the musicians key to — and only one bass drummer is needed because there is only one bass drum to play. The drum itself is one of the regiment's most ceremonial objects: oversized, handmade, decorated with the hand-painted regimental crest on the front and the scroll of battle honours around the rim. In the Scots Guards, that scroll runs from Namur in 1695 through Marlborough's wars, the Peninsular campaign, Waterloo, the Crimea, both World Wars, and into the campaigns of the late twentieth century — the regiment's whole history mounted on one drum.

This figure is the Scots Guards Bass Drummer in standing position, wearing the No. 1 Parade Dress uniform: scarlet ceremonial tunic with the Fleur-de-Lis lace pattern (visible at the shoulders and sleeves), the bearskin cap worn without a plume in Scots Guards style, dark trousers with regimental red stripe, and the long white apron — leather or PVC in modern usage — that protects the tunic from contact with the drum. He holds the bass drumstick in his right hand, drum at his left side, decorated with the hand-painted regimental crest. He pairs naturally with the Scots Guards Drum Major and the Scots Guards Drummer to form the core of the band, and with the Edinburgh Castle Gateway for an authentic Scottish ceremonial setting.

1/30 scale, matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number CE123. As with the rest of the King & Country Ceremonial range, the painting holds to parade-ground detail intended to read well in display.