ALYS TOY SOLDIERS

Sunday, 12 February 2023

DBA… Another game and my Dacians.

Greetings…

On Friday we had another couple of games of DBA.

It was a chance to get two new armies on to the table… My Dacians and Israel’s Spanish…

Israel and Alessandro took the Spanish and Matt and I took the Dacians…

We went for two players a side again as we are still collectively getting our heads around the rules and this way kept us a bit more focused…

We had two games… The Spanish won the first and the Dacians the second.

An excellent result I think.

Here are some pictures from the first game…

My dice throwing was up to its usual high standard.

The second game…

It was interesting using our new armies as it gave us a chance to try out a good part of the rules… there was a fair amount of looking things up but it all proved profitable and it sparked of a number of interesting conversations.

I am sure that after a few more sessions we will get quite slick at things.

My Dacians…

The General (4Wb)…

Horsemen (Cv) and Sarmatians (3Kn)…

Falxmen (3Bd)…

Warriors (3Wb)…

Javelinmen (Ps)…

For the uninitiated this is all the options that the Army Lists allow… 12 stands equals an army.

The letters/numbers in brackets are the unit definitions in DBA.

The figures are from Forged in Battle…

https://www.forgedinbattle.com/

The figures were painted in my usual way using a variety of muted colours for the clothing and slightly bolder colours for the shields…

All the best. Aly

Saturday, 4 February 2023

40mm Napoleonics… Spanish Infantry and a couple of British Officers.

Greetings…

Here are more additions to this collection…

Spanish 36th Infantry Regiment Irlanda…

The Trousers are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh, Administratum Grey and Doombull Brown.

The Blue Bits are… Citadel… Hoeth Blue.

The Yellow bits… Foundry… Ochre 4B.

Guns and Packs… Citadel… Mournfang Brown.

Greatcoats… Citadel… Administratum Grey.

Red Bits… Citadel… Evil Sunz Scarlet.

I really like the colour combinations of this uniform.

And the British Officers…

These chaps took part in the Boxing Day Game but I realised that I hadn’t shown them as individual figures…

Yet again these were all a real pleasure to paint…

I have now managed to paint all of the 40mm Perry Miniatures castings that I have… shock horror… the box is empty 😳.

I may have to get a few Cavalry.

All the best. Aly

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Painting desk update… and yet another book.

Greetings…

As it’s been a couple of months I thought I would let you see the state of my shiny new desk.

Before

Now

I think the desk is bedding in nicely and managing to get creatively cluttered…

I also saw this book in Waterstones and bought it on the title alone… it looks interesting.

All the best. Aly

Saturday, 28 January 2023

A bit more family history…

Greetings…

A while back I posted about a souvenir book that my mother was given at the end of World War Two…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/04/an-old-book-and-bit-of-family-history.html

When I said that my grandmother and mother had worked in the cafeteria/tearoom of Falkirk Ice Rink I had assumed that it was quite a small venue…

How wrong could I have been…

https://falkirklocalhistory.club/around-the-area/recreation/falkirk-ice-rink/the-second-world-war/

It would appear that it was quite a ‘hip’ place…

And the Polish troops were actually stationed very close to the venue…

The Ice Rink closed in 1977 so sadly I won’t be able to make a visit next time I travel ‘up north’

I have also found out that it was indeed HQ 1st Polish Corp that was stationed in the area…

I shall continue digging into this…

All the best. Aly

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Something Shiny… and an interesting book.

Greetings…

I think it is time for some Shiny Napoleonics…

So here we have a few Eclaireurs De La Guard Imperiale… The 2nd Regiment to be precise.

I found myself with four S Range castings… So I decided to do one ‘Tiny unit’ as group of Vidette’s and a single figure to act as an escort for my command figures… he is also known as Billy No Mates… 😁