Wednesday 27 May 2020

Last of the 1879 Colonial Infantry AND a bonus parade!


Here are the last few Old Glory 1879 British figures, which I completed a couple of days ago









And now for a small parade, inspired by the following Edwardian (1909) song that many readers would probably recognise if they heard it

All the nice girls love a sailor
All the nice girls love a tar
For there's something about a sailor
(Well you know what sailors are!)
Bright and breezy, free and easy,
He's the ladies' pride and joy!
He falls in love with Kate and Jane, then he's off to sea again,
Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy!

Which leads nicely into the very few units of Old Glory sailors in my Colonial collection:


Naval Brigade in Sennet hats



Naval Brigade in standard navy caps



Two gardener gun (I think) crews



Two naval gatling gun crews


That's it for this post - take care all!


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15 comments:

  1. caveadsum147128 May 2020 at 00:18

    Great looking colonial Brits and good to see the senior service out and about!
    Best Iain

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    1. rross28 May 2020 at 06:36

      Thanks Iain...I heard the song recently and thought "why not?"

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  2. Lawrence H28 May 2020 at 00:38

    Great work on the new, and it is a pleasure to see some of the previous collection mustered for parade.

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    1. rross28 May 2020 at 06:37

      Cheers Lawrence...I am glad you liked the naval parade

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  3. Jonathan Freitag28 May 2020 at 00:49

    Love your sailors, Keith! You know, Old Glory uses those same, basic, sailor sculpts for so many figures. I just finished painting US Marines for the Spanish-American War. Spanish sailors are very similar too.

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    1. rross28 May 2020 at 06:39

      Thank you Jonathon...I was thinking as I took the photos of the heavily bearded sailors, the heads could easily be used a Boers or ACW, with appropriate head gear of course!

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  4. Dmitry Svidlo28 May 2020 at 01:40

    Very nice Brits and sailors in particular:)

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  5. Old Nick28 May 2020 at 04:12

    Outstanding figures. The naval figures great and always interesting to see these early machine guns. There is something about troops in red coats and pithelmets.

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    1. rross28 May 2020 at 06:40

      Totally agree on the late Victorian colonial uniform Mark!

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  6. Aly Morrison29 May 2020 at 23:30

    Very nice indeed Keith...

    There is indeed a lovely toy soldier quality about the mid to late Victorian uniforms.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. rross30 May 2020 at 08:10

      Thanks Aly...I nearly painted the helmets pure white, as they were issued, which would have given them an even more Toy Soldier look....but I decided against it.

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  7. Stuart S30 May 2020 at 18:35

    Cracking looking sailors Keith.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. rross31 May 2020 at 00:19

      Thanks Stu, it's a while since they were out of the box, so it was good to see them again!

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  8. Neil Scott23 October 2021 at 09:07

    Very nice

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