I am not changing Queen for King!

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In my collection ERII will remain at the head of the Trooping of the Colour display… not that I do not have the Charles III mini too… but there you are I was born in 1952 and habits and frame die hard.

Surely Charles will do a lot of ceremonial but not so many as his mother I fear.

We collectors are like that. I think that I already did a Post about them but not going to check… today is my wife’s anniversary so… a good homage to the Queen of my heart.

Incidentally, Jack Duke from DUCAL did for me a lot of “specials” that are in this pic try to find them…

Enjoy!

PS: On second thoughts maybe… just maybe… I will paint a King Charles III… he is from my generation after all…

British Foot Guards in my Collection.Ducal 54MM

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When I was a child I was fascinated by those red coated Guards… got a box of Britains with Coldstream Guards… and then when I started collecting “seriously” they were my first addiction… I bought books about them and slowly it dawnwd on me that it was five different Regiments! LOL

Well… there they are (with some other minis just for fun)

Enjoy!

Grenadiers above, Coldstream below.
Scots above and Irish below.
Welsh Guards

The Windsor’s

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From the vault… The Royals in Household Division finery… I have kept this pic for many days without knowing how to classify it!

Lets say (to be in the safe side) that HM The Queen Elizabeth II deserved a pic too, as it is she is also in my collection… and in many others I guess…

Enjoy.

Excellent Modeling seen in Facebook

Last Touchs III

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Could have been easily named THAT’S ALL FOLKS!… but I am quite Traditional in the Titles of those Posts… And Bugs Bunny is not part of my collection… it has made me laugh mind… but that’s not here not there. A Collection that started without the intention of becoming a Collection at all… In fact those Cabinet use to contain my 25/28mm Napoleonic and ACW armies!… A nice chance (or lucky) that I made the measures in a way that minis could “breathe”… LOL… It was never intended for 54mm at the beginning… but they fitted quite well. So there you are bit by bit they grew up to that.

It contains The Houshold Division Troops + Beefeters + Men at Arms + Scottish Archers + RCMP and even Wellington/Nelson/Napoleon. Vast majority are Ducal, with Tradition of London, Marlborough, REPLICA, and some unidentified Brands. A bit eclectic but surely the first soldiers (Toy Soldiers) I did collect seriously.
Holmes&Watson getting a Hansom Cab (The Cab is the addition)
A couple of Policemen (Bobbies) and bicycle…

And that ends (for the moment… tomorrow never knows… the Classic Collection on the Big cabinet under the stairs)…

Maybe a couple of Nurses will do the trick of completing it but that depends on Andrew Stevens of REPLICA. Enjoy. I am quite through with it.

Well, not quite… bought a couple of nurses a medical officer and a detective and a set of Military Police all from Steadfast (R.Prati). And NOW it is finished (I can hear you laughing mind).

Trooping the Colour

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With DUCAL 54mm traditional Toy Soldiers on the floor. Now my knees would not like it!
Going back The Mall (well… the floor) at that time there were still some Dorset and Britain’s… not anymore, sold them and substituted them by Ducal’s. The massed Bands looked quite impressive!

It has always been considered the summit of pageantry, at least in the UK, not for the sheer numbers involved but for the Tradition of it. There are other military parades around the world but Bearskins?, Red Tunics?, The Massed Bands?… I could go on and on… I even applied once for tickets but no luck at all -very difficult to organize living far away- so DVD’s of it have taking the place. I once watched in the Mall with my eldest son on a visit to London and saw them come and go from Horse Guards Parade.

General view.
H.M.The Queen and Personalities… very difficult to put everyone in just one pic!

Her Majesty’s Queen Elizabeth II Official Birthday Parade… but otherwise known as Trooping the Colour. Usually it is done the second Saturday of June -plus rehearsals the two Saturdays before that- It has always been a favorite of mine, so, let’s have some pics. Not much more text needed today I guess.

With Playmobils is a lot of fun.
The British Royal Guardsman is perhaps one of the most successful models of Playmobil. It comes with a silly rifle with no grip, so I prefer older models. Do not search for the cavalry those are Customized.
The final Band… it took a long time to find “instruments”… specially the Tubas.
The Royal Horse Artillery Mounted Troop… quite a nightmare to do.
The real thing… 99% DUCAL and some Tradition of London.

PLAYMO-PICS

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As a summing up of the periods I was involved with in the decade or so I toyed with original Playmobils and customized a lot of them (to avoid enamels or painting a lot) with stickers, some felt pen additions and resin parts (mainly headgear), here you have a collection of pics quite self-explanation in themselves.

Wheeling the Line (Trooping the Colour)
Carthaginian Army.
Peloponnesian War
Second Punic War
SEcond Punic War
Hannibal
Ships and rol-playing a bit…
Close up
Naval combats
Close up.
XVIII Century Tricorne period… very easy to get the parts…
Spanish or Austrian Army (choose the flags and that’s it)
Grenadiers and similar… quite complicated headgear to get right.
Wargames in 75mm
Now in the Collections of my Grandchildren.
Only two ever Napoleonics I got… too complicated I guess…
Crimean War: Charge of the Light Brigade.
Another view.
ACW: The Horse Soldiers
ACW: Union Infantry
ACW: Confederate Infantry
ACW: Generals
Detail
Headgear makes the Man… or the soldier…
French Foreign Legion
Detail
RCMP
See OSPREY book.
7th Cavalry 1876
Ulundi
Abu Klea
Spanish 1920 tercio de extranjeros… aka Spanish Foreign Legion.