SYW 42nd Royal Highlanders

I always underestimate how time-consuming painting highlanders is. This is even though I used a very simplistic dark green blue check pattern for the Government Tartan at the time.


I've painting the facings in blue as they became a royal regiment in 1758, but I'm not sure when the change in facings took place.

Figures are Redbox Jacobite Rebellion Highland Infantry

Arab Foot Rebels

These are the really lovely Strelets Arab Revolt Foot Rebels. They have plenty of character and go well with their cavalry






The reason for the long break in posting was the loss of my laptop due to a corrupt disk drive and its replacement under warranty with a new drive so it took quite a while to sort out and get all my files reloaded from backup (Hurrah, I remembered before going on holiday)

Phalanx 2018

Some of the games that caught my eye at the show (apologies as always for the lighting)

Our Lance & Longbow game, the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1454 a classic Neville/Percy scrap


Zulu War in big boys scale 54mm


The Zulus, thousands of them


The plucky Brits


Seven Years War - Torgau 1760 at the start


the battle well underway


The cavalry action


ECW played with baroque


15mm ACW



My pile of loot, mainly from the B&B. I also acquired a large bag of Warlord War of Spanish Succession figures that I plan to use with my 28mm pirates.

Thanks to John for the military transport book.

David's report (link)

On the workbench - June 2018

I've dropped behind plan last month basically due to the time taken up by the Market Garden terrain. I've got Phalanx and a Gentlemen Pensioners big game coming up this weekend. Currently on the bench are

• WW1 Arab revolt - the foot figures are almost finished
• Rebasing my SYW Prussian commanders - I've sorted out the necessary extra figures and undercoated them.
• French musketeers - also uncoated
• SYW Highlanders - already started on one unit of three, but painting tartan is going to be time consuming.

I'm back from Orkney

Just been on holiday in Orkney for two weeks visiting various Neolithic and WW1/WW2 sites, more on this in later posts. The downside is that while I was away the hard drive on my laptop died so blogging, etc will be more difficult for a while until I get it fixed or replaced.