I WOULD LIKE TO thank a few people without whom I would not have been able to illustrate this book, or indeed experience building and painting such fine figures and models: Tony Barton, the designer of AB miniatures, Tom Walsh, owner of Milicast Models, Tony Chadburn of Raventhorpe Miniatures, who provided the 20mm figures used in two chapters, Mark Dixon of CP Models and TQD Castings and Matt Hingley of Elhiem Miniatures.
A special thank you goes to Owen Conner, the Uniforms and Heraldry Curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virginia, who very kindly provided the pictures of museum artefacts that feature in Chapter 2. Owen was also kind enough to write the captions for those pictures as well, which describe them perfectly.