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'A gaping silken dragon,/Puffed by the wind, suffices us for God./We, not the City, are the Empire's soul:/A rotten tree lives only in its rind.'

Saturday 21 June 2014

Old...

... friends.

Ross Mac in a comment on my last post sympathised with my current task of moving hundreds of figures from one barracks to the next, saying how much fun it would be to handle figures that haven't been on the table top of glory for a while. And how right he was ! This morning, I moved another few hundred, and met up with many an old sweat in 28mm from the war in America.
 
Including these Perry figures:


Jaegers. And how fine they are, how fine! Animated to pefection. The only pity is that one can't really have too many of the splendid foresters in one's army.
 
But, there were also these favourites:
 

Loyal and true. And so forgotten in the Old Country. In fact, I wrote a letter only this past week objecting to some television 'historian' who claimed, in The Spectator magazine, that 'we', i.e., Britain, fought the American war all on our own ! Pah!!.

And:


some 'Light Bobs' to lend a hand.
 
 

But not forgetting the opposition, sadly deluded, estranged from their King. But, we have forgiven them, for, as Bismarck realised, our common language would be a deciding factor in the history of the world. And, when, like ancient Rome, we are gone, and our cities and countryside inhabited by others, our tongue will survive for a while. Here and there, like the inheritors of old, small kings will try to maintain the old ways, embodied in our language. Our English.


 



All of this, of course, means that I will have to order some more of these fellows. Of course I don't have enough!

9 comments:

  1. Fancy a game with them on Monday?

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    1. No, sir! You will be painting the allotment hut!

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  2. Great figures,what rules are you going to use.I have tried to start awi on and off for years. I have the remnants of a project lying about (like so many others) which included Hessians.I always wanted to use. a one side of A4 set called "Gentleman Johnny's War" by David Bickley and .....
    If you were intereste dI would happily send you a copy...

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    1. Now, I like the sound of a one side A4 set of rules! I accept. With alacrity, and thanks.

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    2. I can only find a paper copy ,email me your address and I will send you a photocopy...

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  3. Good collection there, I always fancy doing ACW in 54mm.

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    1. There's a lot to be said for the larger scales - the base area isn't that much more than 28mm. And, as one grows older, the hand-eye co-ordination problems...

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  4. "...like ancient Rome, we are gone, and our cities and countryside inhabited by others,..."

    Al, never change.

    Nice work on the damned Republicans by the way.

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  5. Splendid to see your RevWar chaps, we are all very impressed here in the loyal colony of Upper Canada.
    "Here and there, like the inheritors of old, small kings will try to maintain the old ways, embodied in our language. Our English." - one may hope, but Foy and I were discussing the possibility that English will be replaced by some bastard dialect foisted on us by Apple AutoCorrect. :( http://prometheusinaspic.blogspot.ca/2014/06/a-useful-oddity-scruby-artillery-horse.html#comment-form

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