Zouave colonel conversion

My 50-man 116 PA zouave regiment is just one man short of completion...and he's on the way.  In the meantime, as with all of my regiments, I wanted a mounted colonel.

I found the Danila, General Pickett online, and converted him from a Confederate general to a Union zouave colonel.  The only structural change I made was to cut some thin styrene sheet to make him shoulder straps, otherwise it was all just about painting; though I might go back and file off those extraneous buttons.

I'm happy with the  result, and once the missing man arrives, the 116th is ready for action.

Until then...

soldier on!

Mannie

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