Friday, 27 June 2025

TLC for Old Lead Dudes.

 Now I admit that I am a slow painter. Not for me the drugery of starting att one end of an army and slaving away for hours on same old same old, no I paint what I like when I like.  I paint for relaxation from work and as a brain break from writing Currently I'm on a bit of a shiny kick as a rest from India. So its old lead dudes time once again. The models below all bought second hand mostly off ebay and all needing varying amounts of TLC.


 One for the shiny AWI collection. An old Willie- ie Suren 30mm
Conneticut Light Horse. The horse was tailess  so a tail from a broken old Gee-gee
 was  pinned in place.

 British artillery again the AWI collection. Figurese 30mm Stadden.
 Part of a large job lot I bought at auction. The gun is a modernn piece,
a 6 pdr from t Sash and Saber FIW range.


French Napoleonic now, this time soe Carabiniers lgere unit.
30mm Stadden again but with head swaps.
These models arrived with Old Guard heads
which had been added at some stage in 
their lives.
 I replaced them with shako heads from a mass of Stadden spare parts I bought on ebay. 


 Four old Willies in a line! Part of another ebay purchase.
 These arrived already  primed along wth a bundle of other Napoleonics .
These are the fist on a KGL unit.

...And Finally. A Colonel for the Gordon Highlanders,
A Hinchliffe Foremost model, This one bought new.



If all goes to plan then 'Shinyloo' will hopefully appear at a show later this year  in all of its aged glossy glory - assuming I get enought painted of course. 

3 comments:

  1. Lovely figures, the Suren Cavalry figure is an absolute cracker, not seen that figure before and it is a wee beauty.

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    1. He came in a job lot from ebay- mostly assorted Stadden Napoleonics I added the carbine from the spares box, I had never seen him before bit I think the identification is correct.

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  2. What's not to like about "Four old Willies in a line"! And they're KGL Willies at that; your Shinyloo is going to be spectacular.

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