Tuesday, 15 March 2022
La Bataille de la Forêt de Mérite (remastered}
Saturday, 22 January 2022
Monday, 10 January 2022
Generally speaking....
A few French personality figures, hoped to get these done by Christmas but once again real life got in the way.
Monday, 6 December 2021
The Shiny Tenth!
The 10th (Prince of Wales Own) Light Dragoons (Hussars) completed today.
All original HH as far as I can tell.
When I was prepping these I only had one regiment in mind, it had to be the 10th!
Brought back fond memories of the Airfix 54mm kit which I had several goes at back in the early 1970's.
The 10th had various nicknames, "The Chainy 10th" - due to the distinct decoration on the officers' pouch belts, "The Shiny 10th" - due to their opulent uniforms and "The China 10th"- because like fine porcelain they were beautiful but easy to break! As these guys have a coat of gloss varnish it seemed appropriate to use "The Shiny 10th" for the title of this blog post.Thursday, 11 November 2021
Donald where's yer troosers?
Donald where's yer troosers?
In this case Donald must be the piper, the rest of the 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders are wearing their campaign dress. Donald has retained his kilt and feather bonnet.
These are casts from a conversion inspired by this illustration: -
The conversion and the casting are down to Royston (thanks mate, sorry it took me so long to get round to painting these!)
I guess the reference in the post title might be lost on any non-brits and/or anyone under the age of 60, so here you go:
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Chasing Chasseurs
It's been over a year since my last post, sorry! Had some health and work issues to deal with, hopefully I'm back on track now, so here is a pic of the latest unit mustered with the French massive , 12 x Line Chasseurs a Cheval..
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Conversion WIP
The conversion in question is me having my nose re-built from scratch after having most of it removed following a diagnosis of skin cancer. This is the current situation after 7 surgical procedures.
As you can see I can't wear my specs so painting is out of the question. The next procedure is scheduled for next week, hopefully this will be my last major operation and I can start painting again after a few weeks of recovery. It's so frustrating getting a lot of time off work and not being able to do anything productive! Also this is the second time round with this series of operations, the first was in Autumn last year but the results were 'sub-optimal'. If the outcome isn't any better this time I might suggest that the surgeon does a head-swap! My OH's choice for a donor head would be Johnny Depp, but I think he might not have finished with it yet.


