Next up for the Dettol bath .

 

Hunted out the two spare Lifeguards to go with my Lancers , and they are rather worse for wear - both horses have missing tails , one of the figures has a missing arm as well , so quite a bit of repair work to be done on them . I decided to strip the paint to help with the rennovations and painting. Whilst rummaging around in my spares box I found the rather unusual David Crockett/Mountain Man/ Pioneer figure and as he has hardly paint left on him I decided to give him a bath as well. We will see how they look in a couple of days once the Dettol has removed the paint from them.

Britains hollow-casts finally based up !

 

So I've finally got my 54mm Lancers based up , it's taken a while as I had to send for some more bases and various 'real life' issues have intervened . 

I drilled some depressions for the hooves to fit into and put a dab of Hot Glue into the hole and fixed the figures to the bases. I find you have to base these 54mm Britains hollow-casts otherwise they fall over and knock  the surrounding ones over domino like ! .

Here they are going on a Winter patrol overlooking the Great Patio where the vestiges of the last snow fall can bee seen .

I think the Trumpeters might be relegated to HQ duties and replaced with a couple of Officer figures ,  I  might have a cuple of Hollow-casts Cavalry figures that may be suitable .

Tis the Season

 

Well things have not progressed very quickly here - 'real life' and Seasonal doings have somewhat curtailed my painting and hobbying . However whilst accompanying MrsK to a 'Christmas Fayre' I was able to purchase these fine chaps -about 5" tall and brightly painted very Toy Soldiery indeed !.

A bit of basing !

 

Have noticed that several of my fellow bloggers are busy basing/rebasing figures and this has encouraged me to base up the Lancers (.: Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto eBay. (tonystoysoldiers.blogspot.com) that have been waiting for bases for quite a while .- note to self - Hot Glue Guns when switched on produce VERY HOT glue !! (ouch) (Mrs K on hearing the swearing says "what have you done now !") Results to follow on next post.......

A glimpse of mass production figure painting from the past.

 

No ! - not a picture of Mrs K busy painting my figures ! but a photo from Facebook , annoyingly I can't remember where I stole it from , so can't tell you  anymore info . Think she is painting Cowboys and the Cavalry look like Lifeguards , probably the Britains factory from the 1930s-50s ? going by the hairstyle and dress.etc, hate to think of the lead toxicity of the paint being used ! 

I've been to see Napoleon on the silver screen .

 

Well I took myself to the cinema to see the latest film - Mrs 'K' said it was not her sort of thing so I went alone and took advantage of my Pensioner status at the box office.

A clumsy attenpt at a selfie - I lack the dextterity and have short arms for this sort of thing - note the tub of popcorn a must have on a visit to the cinema and of course almost eaten before the film starts as usual.

The film starts - I must say I enjoyed it - it's NOT Waterloo ! as a lot of people are unfairly comparing it I think. Very moodily lit and the settings looked right , I didn't start button counting when it came to the uniforms and the battle scenes where a bit 'rugby scrumish' I'm afraid but overall it was a great period piece and I would watch it again . 

A contemporary view of Napoleon - I would say it was a brave attempt at a massive subject which  was always going to be a bit crammed onto the silver screen .8/10 I think .

Toy Soldier in Art No.10

 

I'm told the young people call them memes (!?)

PS wait till she finds how much he spends on them 

PPS and how much room they take up in the house 

PPPS or how much of his waking time is taken up thinking about them