One consequence of early success was the obsolescence of my original long term plans. I no longer had time to recruit a large body of re-enactors to play the Acadians and Rangers. This meant that my opposing units weren’t going to look as big on film as I’d hoped, which I would regret later, but I was so excited now that filming was underway that I didn’t care.  My cast list was growing, and everyone on it was someone I had contact with every day. This meant efficient communications, which was worth a little reduction in scale. Not everyone who had expressed interest was a re-enactor, but between Rob Welch and myself and a few others, we were able to cobble together enough uniforms and equipment to outfit everybody. Some of the same hats and muskets would get used over and over, but since everyone was supposed to be wearing similar clothes anyway, that wasn’t a problem.

The cast was turning out to be one of the film’s strengths. Colin Nicolle signed on to play Noble’s second in command, Sergeant Parker. Parker was a foil for Noble, and with his natural air of calm dignity, Nicolle was perfect. Cliff Lee and Tom Cromwell, two other employees at the Citadel, also signed on to play whatever roles I could give them. Tom was just getting into reenacting as a hobby and had some of his own kit already, but unfortunately he was scheduled to leave for Newfoundland in a few days. If I wanted to use him, I had to move fast. Circumstances and available resources were again the driving forces behind my no budget production. I’d just had a successful location shoot. But now I would have to fall back onto some rather unorthodox methods to get what I wanted.

With Rob Welch’s help, I came up a small role for Tom, that of a regular army sentry standing outside the door to the blockhouse where Major Aldridge’s office was located.  Utilizing the clips of me as Major Aldridge from my test scene, I would reshoot the Noble clips with Rob, and also shoot the scenes with the sentry. And since we didn’t have time to gain access to the real blockhouse in Windsor before Tom had to leave, I decided to build a miniature set. This led to one of two composite special effects shots that were used in the movie. 
First, I found a wooden exterior door at the Citadel that looked like it could be a blockhouse door. I shot a quick clip with Tom standing in front of this door, talking to Rob. Then I took a digital picture of the door, printed it, cut it out, and pasted it to the front of a cardboard model blockhouse I built. This model was about seven inches tall and had only three sides. I then shot both Tom and Rob in front of my green screen (the plastic tablecloth I’d used in all the short films with my kids). This would do for the exterior shots. For the blockhouse interior, I used a board room at the Citadel with pine paneling on the walls. The paneling was old and varnished and didn’t quite match my pine board rec room set, but it was close enough, so that’s where I shot Rob’s clips as Noble sitting in Aldridge’s office.