I have finished painting my Brigade of Guards! (A childhood project).
To be sincere I will work a bit more on the mounted Officer Horse… they are never really “finished” (horses I mean).
And they still lack the gloss varnish.
My last Project (to be painted by me) will be King Charles III … there on the tray at the back of the pic.
All casts by REPLICA.
Cheers.
The whole Unit (A Brigade of Guards for AGW)Coldstream Guards finished except gloss varnishThe mounted Officer is a Scots Guards Brigadier (it lacks a bit of work on the horse I admit)Grenadiers on the Right (ADC 4th Hussars W.S.Churchill)Coldstream on the left of the line
My Brigade of Guards for AGW set of rules will be completed wit those Coldstreamers (Nulli Secundus).
Curiously having a unit of Grenadiers and another of Coldstreamers I have decided to make the mounted Brigadier a serious Scot Guards!
Probably my last effort at painting myself the 54MM casts!… pots of paint will be used to do maintenance exclusively.
I will buy painted soldiers from Andrew Stevenson (REPLICA) and Antony Spencer (DORSET and IMPERIAL and AQM)… because they do it better than me… and I am a bit tired (only very elusive things as the SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON SET can make me move…)
Enjoy!
Very few things to add… mainly Black and Gold!The other side view!
After a bit of relax (that included searching for the right paint from Vallejo for the rifles!) I am now painting two units for AGW (12 man units); the first one is only 4 charging figures to complete an existing REPLICA set. Will concentrate on those 4 for starts… but also working on the mounted officers and young Churchill (4th Hussars).
It is easier to paint Infantry soldiers if you are not in a hurry. But you need to have a hold on them somehow… so just a job of adding colours patiently. In the case of the guards the bearskin helps a lot!
Since I was a child and had only marching and at the present figures I have wanted to have them in fighting positions… so in the end… DIY is the best way (not the only one of course!).
I have ordered from Dorset Soldiers and Replica some boxes for 2024… if all goes well I will retire from the painting job myself and keep the pots of paint to do maintenance exclusively.
Now, if Andrew Stevenson send to me the 5 casts of the 2nd US Cavalry to do the mounted colour party for the SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON set… that will be all!
The “square” formation is only to show the Toy Soldiers in a single pic. Cavalry had not use at all “inside”. But even more important the “square” as such was not used at all intensively at that time… so you will forgive the artistic license!
In fact the purpose of this “parade” was to count them all, stop adding more troops without sense of perspective… and find where to put the two machine guns newly commisioned!
Vast majority of them are REPLICA METAL MODEL SOLDIERS (Andrew Stevenson), complemented by DORSET SOLDIERS (Antony Spencer) and even 4 Gordon Highlanders done by my friend Paul Watson in a moment of yours truly deep anguish!…
Enjoy!
You must read Major C.E. Callwell (Royal Artillery) opus SMALL WARS (Their Principles & Practice).
Quite aerial view.Maybe a better shot!Another perspective.Indian Mountain Battery.Corps of GuidesGurkhasBritish Guards66th BerkshiresBobbie (the dog) is purposefully misplaced! (it should be with the 66th!Gordon HighlandersCommander + British Artillery.Just to say farewell…Those are in the offing…The Maxim with wheels too!
All right, once the figures out of the Cabinet it is possible to do some kind of manoeuvres, so here it is the French Foreign Legion in Square. Of course it is easier to take pics because those figures are mine!
No much problem to do the pics once paraded.
Enjoy!
Frontal ViewRear ViewLateral viewView from a cornerQuite aerial view…