My Toy Soldiers & Me

Claude Bailey’s Own

It was necessary to report from Fort Rexford… you know those isolated posts in the frontier needs to be cared for from time to time WAT!

And BTW it is the Colonel’s Birthday today!… so free drinks on the mess!

Enjoy!

Sometimes Murphy is right!… I have intended to post this pic for days… and never found where the hell I kept it in the Vault… Today so help me God… I have done three posts instead of one… due to me accidentally found it by pure chance…

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I simply lost this pic inside “the Vault”… been searching for it days and days! Just my kind of thing (something by James Opie I think but not sure)

Lovely figures!

Love the background too!

Never seen round bases for the cavalry before… each day you discover new things!

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Brilliant scenery!

I have to be more careful and note the name of the artist… even if sometimes they are posted in Facebook without reference… not that was the case with this pic I simply did not record it! Quite diorama like…

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Again no idea who did it!… from the Vault (and Facebook)

A bit of it won’t hurt you…

From time to time I have regrets to do not spend more time in Military Modeling… results are spectacular to say the least… but I am much more inclined to the ludic part of the hobby.

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Excellent Military Modeling (from the Vault)… and seen in Facebook.

Work in progress and finished!

OMG! getting out of lead to paint again!… UK Postal Strikes!… yipee!… what else can go wrong I ask?

REPLICA figures painted by Andrew Stevens (much better painter than me) used as “models”… sometimes I think I am a silly ass and should have concentrated in other model like Brigitte Bardot if you know what I mean… my only consolation is that my collection of models do not age up…

Will add pics this afternoon of the job finished.

Enjoy!

That was an early pic… 54mm by Dorset castings.

REPLICA (Andrew Stevens) Originals used as “info”…

Rear view (my painting efforts on the left)

Lateral view of the Colours… my painting on the far right.

Bowley’s Own

There seems to be a lot of Prussians lately… but that’s what it is… sometimes wargamers do have to follow a fashion no matter what (me included). Prussia had a span of 30 years before integrating Great Germany after 1870… and still… they are very popular (as anything before WWI and WWII)… LOL

Enjoy!

From “The Vault”!

Sometimes I collect interesting pictures and keep them for days or weeks “in the vault”… and suddenly it comes to mind that it is a pity to do not show them before long or too long has passed since “collected” in Facebook.

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They look like Russian Sailors to me… 28mm I guess

John Clarke’s Own (again)

As you all must be tired of my Playmobils… something classic today for a change of air… refreshing… still Prussians I guess… but much more traditional approach…

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Cast from Prince August moulds I think… splendid job!

Building up DORKING… (I)

The battle of Dorking is the fundamental or quintessential scare of the XIXth Century in Britain, based on the book namesake after 1870… the Prussian Army concerned a lot of the fears on the Island (silly without a Navy who could slip the Royal Navy at all of course!)… but the scenarios you can build around the them are FUN!

I am currently waiting for three parcels to arrive to complete the small units I need to play them. The British are finished but the Prussians lack Cavalry and some “touchs”.

Enjoy!