It is curious how sometimes you do things almost by accident... I painted some Guards Toy Soldiers casts by REPLICA (now in my SIMKIN collection)... and I had a mounted Officer cast (spare but not Harry)... and a beatifully sculpted head with bearskin (all casts by REPLICA)... and I finally assembled and painted HRH King Charles III while producing the AGW Guards units... now that Toy Soldier presides and commands my Trooping the Colour Collection (mainly DUCAL and a few TRADITION OF LONDON)... that's how collecting goes sometimes.

I guess everybody has seen them before... at least parts of them... but now it is complete with two extra cavalry units Bengal Lancers Central India.

It has British Line (originally I wanted to stop at the 66th at Maiwand...), Highlanders, Guides, Gurkhas, Indian Mountain Artillery, Guides Cavalry, British 9th lancers, the 2 Bengal Lancers mentioned and Royal Artillery, a couple of machine guns, an Heliograph (Paul Watson's 4 figures kept my sanity during the pandemia)... and some mules. I even got a secret weapon in the form of a Rolls_Royce armoured car prototype! There is even a Burnaby chap from Tradition of London I have not decided yet which colour of BFSH will have... nowadays still white...

It was a pleasure to collect.

If I share here I know you will understand!

Sorry about the photo quality - taken last night in a bit of a hurry; seem to be back on the horse.

Next is flogging figures - something I've never done but penury forces me to do such (you can't spend 8 months off with no money coming in caring for a parent and expect there to be any savings left .. but that said spending the final few months with Dad was priceless and I think got us closer than we ever really did in the previous 60 years).

Also - although still undermanned, going to do a photoshoot with 50 Senet hatted matelots pulling the 4.7 ... mainly because that's all the matelots I has :)

3D resin printed whippet tank.