The lads are now painted to old geezer level.
All that I have to do now, is to produce a regimental colour for the Ensign to wave.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
It's Just A Flag Away
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Sunday: A Day of Mostly Rest
So, now I have three stands of Highlanders with a fourth one 1/2 way there,
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| (Apologies for the awful lighting....) |
'........then I'll need to give the Ensign a Regimental Colour.......pity there aren't any definite descriptions of the original flags of this regiment. At least there have now been some research indicating that all of the 4 Highland battalions in North America in the 1750's/60's wore the Government or Black Watch set.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Interruptions! Always Interuptions!
Well, I got a bit done on the second half of Fraser 's Highlanders but Mother Nature has again intervened.
Rather unusually, we are suddenly having a normal winter, several months late and the first one in a few years but there it is. So its down paintbrush and pickup a shovel.
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| Italian Greyhounds have a bit of a problem playing in fresh snow over their heads, so the primary winter trench system has been dug out from the house to around the Willow tree.......again.... |
Ah well, the Highlanders will be ready for action ere long.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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