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| Thought I'd take a picture before varnishing to avoid glare - plus it gives me a chance to look for anything that might need touching up! Alice and Malice from the Alice in Gerunderland Range by The Little Soldier Company. Painted as inspired by the Mollie Tuttle version of the Red Queen and a version pretending to be Red Riding Hood. The friend being the panda I bought recently. |
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| Also took the opportunity to finish off another figure from a certain company that shall not be named... |
Just got a phone call from my son Steven with the sad news.
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'Mharaid and I are heartbroken to announce the passing of Aly Morrison, a very much loved father, veteran wargames miniatures designer and friend to many around the tabletop and the world. Aly passed unexpectedly but peacefully this Wednesday, and will be sorely missed. We ask for privacy in this time of mourning, but would love and appreciate to hear any stories those that knew him have to tell of their times together, as he loved to tell us of stories of the good times and games had with you all.' - from Facebook page |
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| Lot's of people will be telling stories and commenting on his life and career; I'll just leave it with a a picture. Many of these figures were designed by him and will be my own memory and tribute.A very sad day. |
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| For this unit I've gone for my usual 7YW regiment organisation of 3 4 figure elements of musketeers but have also painted up an element of grenadiers. |
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| This gives me the option of 'normal' regiment... |
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| ...And gives me an element that can be used as part of a detached grenadier force... |
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| The officer has gold lace and tricorne trim plus gold buckles on his shoes. |
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| The drummer is based on illustration 3 from the Blandford Encyclopaedia in colour 'Infantry Uniforms', - lots of these available for sale online |
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| Meanwhile the grenadier is based on plate 2... though note I've painted my unit in campaign dress, white gaiters replaced by black gaiters. |
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| I've bought a few figures for the pulp collection. Figures are from The Little Soldier Company - Alice and Malice from the Alice in Gerunderland Range, Soulslayer and Liche from Dungeon Adventures. The idea of Alice and Malice are to produce versions of the Red Queen and Little Red Riding Hood. |
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| The Red Queen will be painted in a scheme inspired by the Mollie Tuttle and Golden Harvest version of White Rabbit... While Little Red Riding Hood is loosely based on the large number of Horror films using versions of the character! Still not sure whether I'll change the weapons that Malice/Red will have. |
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| On a trip to the North Norfolk coast I also picked up this panda... looking at using it as inspiration for some oven baked clay figures... |
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| Cheap and cheerful, I've gone to the white robes with stripes format. |
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| This lot gives me 6 elements, enough for most DBA sized armies! As far as the current Fantasy Middle Eastern armies go it leaves me with just one more unit - Turkish style infantry spears - to go before I officially end this part of the project. At some stage I'll do a load of Tuaregs as a camel army and see about some robed Arab cavalry - but could be a while before I look at that. |
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| The Garrison guns are not the best in the world, but easy to cast and paint. |
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| I've set up one medium gun on a base with a crew for immediate use. The guns look blue - actually painted neutral grey! |
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| Also got a heavy gun, light gun/howitzer and limber painted ready to use if needed. |
Considering it hit a million in March this year... then another million in 6 months when it took 12 years for the first million...
