This figure is based on one of the main characters from the television show Liberty's Kids. James Hiller is an orphan who works as a reporter for Benjamin Franklin's newspaper. He and his two comrades (one of which has been painted already; see https://redcoatsandruffles.blogspot.com/2018/01/sarah-phillips.html) view the great events of the American Revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to the signing of the United States Constitution. Mysteriously, the characters never seem to get any older...
The original figure was a recast Marx "Johnny Tremaine." The original head was swapped for the head from a Marx recast "Rab Silsbee." After this rather drastic change, the character's pigtail was sculpted, a quill pen was sculpted in his right hand. His left hand had been removed for another conversion(see https://redcoatsandruffles.blogspot.com/2017/02/young-philadelphia-gentleman.html), which necessitated sculpting another hand. I chose to give this hand a piece of paper. Now James Hiller and his companion Sarah Philips are ready to jot down all the latest news from the Revolution as it happens.
