Book!

It's an exciting thing to open a carton and find it's full of the book one wrote.

 

New Zouave conversion

They've been around since 2006, but this is the first I've heard of them.

Danila Souvenirs of Estonia makes some pretty nice 54mm metal toy soldiers.  They have a couple of infantrymen - Union and Confederate, a couple foot officers, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and some mounted figures.

They are the quality that W. Britians were twenty years ago.

They're half the price of current Britains, so  I bought a foot officer to repaint as a major for the 114th PA zouave regiment that I'm raising.

I'm happy with the way he came out.

Zouaves are cool.

Soldier on!

Mannie

Zouaves!

 Sidetracked again.

Regular followers of this blog know that I frequently make big noise about doing one thing, and then I get distracted by something else.  Well, here I go again.

Over the past few weeks I've been raising a regiment of  55-60mm zouaves to comprise the 114th PA regiment  (Collis' zouaves).  I'm gathering not just the W. Britains 114 zouaves, but others as well, all makes and models, including home-cast.  As a result, I have much painting to do to make them all uniform. 

I have to turn these guys...

into these guys...

 I've started on the painting, and it will take some time, but I think it will be done by winter.  It will be my seventh (and final) regiment of 51 men.

Stay tuned and...

Soldier on!

Mannie

 

Retirement project. I've written a book

 Dear friends,

One of the reasons that I have been so delinquent in posting to this blog over the last year, is that I have been writing a book: Lie, Cheat, and Steal: one boy's Navy adventure.

It will be available on Amazon in August of 2026, but you can read it for free, in its entirety right here:

Lie, Cheat, and Steal: one boy's Navy adventure

Happy reading, and...

Soldier on!

Mannie