Well the work continues on the ECW project although nothing done this weekend, busy with other things. I did purchase another Summerfield tome, this one on Austrian infantry, and it is another cracking book, nothing more from him on the horizon but who knows!
While perusing ebay I cam across some painted Crann Tara figures for sale, I recognised them and then realised they were from the late Stuart Insch and were being sold by his good friend Graham, there was a Neapolitan army and a Spanish one from the siege of Havana. The Neapolitans were a must buy as we had chatted about them some time ago, Stuart had provided me with a lot of uniform information for Genoa, Piedmont and Naples for a project I was working on, no brainer there, then seeing the Spanish I just had to have them as well, so paid for them too.
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More purchases to come from the collection of Tony Joseph on the horizon as well, he has more Hanoverians plus some British and some French, so it's in for a penny and in for a pound! So plenty added to my collection and nothing at all painted but I do have some plans in the pipeline for some work I will do myself, we will see when that will come to fruition! So until next time,,,,,,
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Some clever recruiting of forces on eBay. The figures look great.
ReplyDeleteVery happy with them Peter I must admit.
DeleteVery handsome additions! You will be poised for refighting WAS battles in no time at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's all coming together Jon and hopefully sometime soon they will be on the table, fingers crossed for sooner rather than later!
DeleteSome nice looking figures there Donnie 👌 Buying in your recruits ready painted certainly speeds things up but must be quite costly?
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly not a cheap option Keith but for pretty much the first time in my life I have a bit of disposable cash available so making good use of it!
DeleteSplendid looking recruits!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
I am rather pleased I have them Iain that's for sure.
DeleteWell Donnie I finally found your blog …some nice purchases 👍
ReplyDeleteGood to have you here Matt and I am very happy with the Hanoverians, Tony did a cracking job on them.
ReplyDeleteFine looking figures. Even better that you know the provenance which adds so much to their value and meaning. It was so sad to read of Stuart's passing.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
So very true James, I had seen these troops on his blog and had chatted online with him about the Neapolitan ones. His passing was so sudden it was a real shock and very sad.
DeleteHi Donnie, I came to check out your blog. Nice place you have here, I'm going to crush that couch in the corner. I realize that I have been out of touch quite a while as this is the first I had heard about Stuart. I am shocked, I had several exchanges with him online, a kind and supportive gentleman who had such interesting projects and who was interested in what I was doing. I'm looking over at his Sugar Islands book on my shelf... It is very sad. I am delighted to see that a bit part of his fine collection is in one place with you.
ReplyDeleteI'll be back
Jim
Hi Jim, it was really sad about Stuart, so sudden too and he was a real gentleman and will be missed. Glad to see your blog up and running again, using the zouaves as militia was inspiring, they look great.
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