Six squadrons plus various commanders have now been properly mounted on wooden bases. Its time to add some more.
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Saturday, October 10, 2020
Keep To the Right
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 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 Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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The trooper that has lost his mount is terrific. The position of the horse shows a lot of motion and have seen that pose many times.
ReplyDeleteWhen I took riding classes in my college days I was assigned a big tall black for my "charger" whose name was Piggy, not for his eating habits but for his stubbornness. I don't remember ever ending up on my back but there were no easy rides.
Delete"Keep to the right" - that is funny.
ReplyDeleteNicely mounted figures.
Britains always did great horses and the Air Farce could always raise more than a chuckle or three.
DeleteFantastic red, is that an enamel?
ReplyDeleteNo, thats the colour of plastic that these were cast in. The heads are cast in flesh coloured plastic and the other details are painted on at the factory. (Until I repaint them)
DeleteWhat a difference a metal head and arms makes in terms of giving a new identity , says the man who was cutting off guards heads, drilling them out and fitting metal ones yesterday. I do have a soft spot for the traditional Mountie hat. My Grandma went to Canada when I was around eight for a holiday and one gift she gave me was a foot high saluting Mountie who stood on my bedside table for years and years.
ReplyDeleteA new head, a new man. I always wanted a Mountie hat as a kid. Being issued a pillbox at military college was not the same.
DeleteThat is a very neat conversion, must go cast another look over my Mounties and see what I can make out of them, lovely figures but mine never see any action.
ReplyDeleteThe separate heads do make many conversions easy. A pith helmet and lick of paint would quickly make a lancer for the Sudan or South Africa, a turban for the NW frontier, a lancer cap a start for almost anywhere under any flag.
DeleteSplendid work, I read somewhere that the unit also had their own light gun and howitzer, Have only replaced the plastic lances on mine. Thank you for the view, this is my favourite site for 54mm action.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Thank you Michael. Yes they were issued some old guns. By the time they had a reason to use them for anything more than salutes the carriages were rotten. Such is life!
DeleteWhen I recovered conscientious ... great figures, Ross.
ReplyDeleteIn my log cabin on the 10th floor of ....
DeleteI say ! that chap with the binoculars has lost his head !
ReplyDeleteMost annoying! He ahhh got knocked and the head vanished! One more floor search and I'm going to have to cast another before I resume.
DeleteIt's building up nicely as a force.
ReplyDeleteSome fine refurbishment going on there Ross. I too enjoyed the cross-lingual joke! (Sounds like it'd be a good show?)
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Hi Ross,
ReplyDeleteI have a question that really has very little to do with war gaming. Nothing, actually... Here goes. Do the Francophone people who populate Quebec celebrate Thanksgiving with the rest of Canada? As a second part to my question, how would they say "Happy Thanksgiving" in French?
And again, I wish you the very best today!
Jerry