A Book and Something Silly…

Greetings …

I saw this book….

Now anyone who knows me knows that there was no way I was going to walk past this one 🤣

David Price combines a history of the development and production of this beautiful aircraft combined with an account of how he decided to built a full scale replica in his own back garden…

I am looking forward to reading this 😁

And now something silly…

I decided it was about time I inflated my Tank Museum tank shells…

I’ve had these for quite some time and they have spent most of that time in a box… Then my neighbour lent me a bicycle pump with the correct adapter…

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I think the only ones that are still available are the 88mm and a Panzerfaust…

The cat was impressed…

I have actually been doing more painting… I am working my way through a unit of Shiny Napoleonics French Infantry, I am taking it slow but steady and I will try and post some WIP pictures soon.

Right… Enough silliness… I’m off to find an inflatable Tank 🙀

All the best.  Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… The Glasgow Wellington.

Greetings …

Recently while doing some research related to my Shiny Napoleonics I came across these interesting and unusual etchings…

They appear to show the great duke wearing what is possible an unusual form of sombrero…

I have never really seen the likes of this before but I understand that ‘local’ headwear came in many shapes and sizes…

On further reading I discovered the autobiography of a certain Corporal “Drinky” More…*

He states that the good Duke sported this headwear quite often as he felt that the unusual shape of the brim covered his impressive nose admirably…

He also adds that he was prone to wear a similar hat ( on an occasional Saturday night) after he returned home to Scotland…

His friends apparently christened it a Glasgow Sombrero…

Here are my efforts at reflecting this unusual form of dress…

The figure is a Lamming Staff officer… I used this because I only have one model of Wellington and and I would rather hang on to him and use him as he is.

* It is said that Drinky More only sobered up twice between the start of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo…

He took part in nearly ever action and battle… not necessarily in any fighting condition… His comrades once said that he moved so erratically that the chance of a musket ball hitting him was almost zero…

His autobiography was almost certainly written by his landlady and at the time was described as utter balderdash…. And badly written balderdash at that.

The Glasgow Wellington… Splendid.

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All the best.  Aly