ALYS TOY SOLDIERS: February 2020

Monday, 24 February 2020

TACTICA 2020

Greetings...

I Have just realized that I haven't posted any photo's from this years trip to Tactica...
As always it was a splendid show with lots of great games... covering everything from the Prehistoric World through to High Fantasy, Star Wars and Warhammer...

The main theme for this year was Seiges

Here are a few games that caught my eye...

A star Wars Game... Red Two Down... By THS

Dyppol 1864...By Bruce Weigle and Friends...

More Star Wars... By Martin Schneider and Friends.

Frank Becker's Fort William Henry...

The Siege of Tire... from Cryns Miniatures.

The Siege of Antioch... by Rusus.

The Siege of Acre... by Table Top Nerdz Mainz... not the best picture I'm afraid...

The Siege of Orleans... by Frank Bauer.

The Wall... Game of Thrones... by Frank Becker and Friends.

The Bataver Insurrection... by Team Wurfelkrieg.

More Fort William Henry... Mostly because I joined in a game .... and didn't loose horribly.

A beautiful WW1 Air War game ... by Svend Ask Larsen and Friends.

There were many more games than the ones I managed to photograph ...

More can be found here...
https://tabletopdeutschland.com/2020/02/17/tactica-2020/

https://tabletopdeutschland.com/2020/02/24/tactica-themenraum-2020-belagerungen/

Many thanks to all our friends for looking after us so well and thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello...

Here's to the next one...

All the best Aly

Sunday, 23 February 2020

A Little Bit of Family History... My Great Great Grandfather

Greetings...

Things are still a bit slow on the toy painting front so, I thought that I would share a little bit of my family history with you...

When I was visiting Edinburgh I found out a bit more about my family's military heritage...

I remember my Grandmother saying that she had been bounced on the knee of a Crimean War veteran...
As she was actually born in the Sergeants Quarters at Stirling Castle ,I have always assumed that she was referring to a member of The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders...

Apparently not... She was talking about her Grandfather... My Great Great Grandfather...

Edward Bolton... Gunner Royal Horse Artillery.

I am hoping to find out a bit more about J Troop... It would be quite fun to try and recreate an action Edward Bolton took part in on the tabletop...

Many thanks to my friends and family (Trish and Linda) for finding this for me...

All the best Aly

Thursday, 13 February 2020

A New Book...

Greetings...

This rather lovely book arrived today....

At first glance it appears to be as good as the first volume...
I look forward to reading it and being inspired...

https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-armies-and-wars-of-the-sun-king-1643-1715-volume-2-the-infantry-of-louis-xiv.php?sid=f0b774ce1c447a645d80fb0bd11fb868

All the best... Aly

Saturday, 8 February 2020

A Visit to Edinburgh...

Greetings...

Last week the real world called me back to my birth place...

I managed however to make a couple of escapes back to the world of toy soldiers and... Castles.

I also met up with a couple of really good friends and fellow blogger... M S Foy (AKA Tony)... and what a jolly fine chap he is indeed...

So Edinburgh Castle ... One of my favourite places to visit... even on a stormy day...

Okay... I cheated a bit and used some photographic effects... But it did indeed rain the whole time I was there...

The New One 'o' Clock Gun...

Dougie Haig...

This picture fails to show how windy and wet the day was...

This would be the real One 'o' Clock Gun...

And in no particular order some images from the castles museums...

Pal!... If yer names no on the list you can #&%$ off...

There would have been many more... but the batteries on my phone ran out .... now.

My friend David and I also paid a wee visit to The South East of Scotland Wargames Club...
There was a good selection of games from fantasy to the far flung future... a couple of games caught my eye...