More Randoms

20Aug
by patmcf

Well hello, I’m back with a few more random minis I have found on the hall racks that I don’t think have been posted before.

But before that I would just like to say thanks for all the well wishes and offers of help during my wife recent illness, very much appreciated, and she was a bit over whelmed that she had received so many well wishes, you are a marvellous bunch. The good news is she is very much on the road to recovery which is a great relief to us the family.

 Well the first one is of one of the few civil disturbances in Australia’s short history and is referred to as the Eureka stockade battle but it was over in 20 minutes with the total casualties being around twenty men. It was a protest by gold miners and the price of the gold licences the government had imposed on them. The miners had constructed a rough kind of stockade that the military attacked when most of the miners were down at the pub.

The next is my attempt at recreating a famous picture I have admired since I was a kid, it’s of the British retreat out of Afghanistan back in 1842, and my effort isn’t that flash but I had to have a go at it. Ha Ha! The big problem was finding figures with the bell Shako; I ended up using Waterloo 1815 Set 008 Polish infantry.

The last one is a bit weird; I’m not sure why I purchased these figures as it was a while ago, they are from the Hat set 809Russian Militia, and sorry for the life of me I can’t work out what I was thinking when I did this little masterpiece!!

Take care and I will be back with some more lost and forgotten ones as I sort through all the small ones and put my nice new labels that the Tech adviser made me so as to make them look Posh!!! I will reveal them next post.

Cheers Pat.

25 thoughts on “More Randoms”

  1. Dave Stone's avatar

    Dave Stone

    Excellent looking little stories Pat, and I would say that’s what these vignettes are, not just the story they are portraying but your story on why you did them.

    So glad to hear your wife is on the mend, and hope she has a quick and full recovery.

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  2. John@justneedsvarnish's avatar

    John@justneedsvarnish

    Well, the best part of this post is the news that your wife’s recovering (you can tell her that’s more important than painting model soldiers)! 🙂 But, to be honest, I do like the dioramas – the First Afghan War one definitely captures the painting nicely! 🙂

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      patmcf

      Thanks John, just returned from Bendigo hospital and they have done all their tests so fingers crossed she will be home soon 👍🏻. Yeah I would have like better figures for that period but for some strange reason it’s not covered 🤔.

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    lorenzoseventh

    Glad your wife’s on the mend Pat! And a nice selection of your handiwork- I used the Russians as 1848 rebel Milanese and quite like them except they are a touch on the large side. Your using polish for bell shakoes is so true – desperate measures – queue tumbleweed when such headgear is mentioned with 1/72!

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      patmcf

      Thanks matey, you are excused as I feel my fellow countrymen don’t know much either😅😅. We have only been settled by the British for just over two hundred years so very little of interest has happened, the only other uprising was the arresting of Governor Blight of the Mutiny on the Bounty fame by the army, and the only action then was his daughter try to fight them of with an umbrella 😅😂😂.

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    maenoferren22

    Great news on your good lady Pat. Ooooh, oooh I have heard of the Eureka Stokade… hope your are impressed! For extra brownie points i have also heard of the Kalkadoon War in the 1860’s. I would have added Ned Kelly but everyone has heard of him.

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      patmcf

      Thanks Steve hoping Jill gets released from hospital in the next few days, Fi and I just got back from visiting her and she’s itching to come home 👍🏻.
      Mate you have scored those brownies as to my shame I hadn’t heard of the Kalkadoon Wars😅🫢, but I’ll blame that on not being a Queenslander😉. I never thought of doing a Ned Kelly one as I see him as a cop killer while a larger percentage of Aussies think he is a hero, I have to laugh when I see souvenirs of him, the equivalent of having one with Harry Maurice Robert’s image stuck on a pint mug on the mantle piece. 😳

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    patmcf

    Thanks matey, we were able to bring the old girl home from hospital today which was a great joy to the family, she is doing well but will need care at home before she is fully recovered 🥲👍🏻. One of my girls printed up some posh stickers for me and I’m going through the collection and sorting them out as I add the stickers, wow there’s more than I imagined 🫢, yeah so beware my friend as you said by the time you hit 70 you will be knee deep in models 😅😅😅.

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    rantingsfromunder

    Brilliant little snapshots of history Pat, each one a piece of artwork in it’s own right!

    Glad to hear you wife is on the mend, had a recent scare with my own dear lady wife (she too is well on the way to recovery). We moan about them, but by god we’d be lost without them! (but don’t tell her I said that!) 😉

    Cheers Roger.

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      patmcf

      😂😂Thanks mate, your right one doesn’t know how much they do🥵, I’m glad your wife’s recovering because if she is like my wife she doesn’t take illness well, and tried to do things when she wasn’t allowed to do anything. 😅😅👍🏻.

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