Tuesday 23 January 2018

In 1957 Meredith Willson wrote "Seventy-six trombones led the big parade..."

".....With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand."

Well my parade has neither trombones or cornets, but it does feature four cavalry trumpets and twelve side drums.

As promised last week, here is the  parade of the French in Egypt army. Now because I only had a piece of green cloth you have to use your imagination a bit here and pretend that we are in that lush part of Egypt that benefitted from the annual inundation and that each of the units brought along a bit of sand to stand on.

First of all there is the staff.


Then the cavalry. The hussars...


The Chasseurs á cheval...


The whole group, with the dragoons to the rear


Then the line infantry...


The light infantry...


...and the dromendaries, mounted...


...And dismounted


Then the artillery



Finally the team photo.


Then they are put back into their storage trays...


...and stacked in the study cupboard with the other containers of little men.


14 comments:

  1. Spectacualar and gorgeous, a splendid collection!

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    1. Thank you Phil. One thing you can be certain about is that this collection will expand.

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  2. A very pretty and colourful army...
    It seems almost sinful to make them live in a cupboard... ;-)

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Then again it is kind of greeting old friends when they get taken out of the boxes and brought to the table...not that they will make it to the table for a while longer since a significant car repair bill has pushed back my carefully scheduled plans for the British in Egypt by another month.

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  3. Beautiful collection, Mark! The dromedary troops (mounted and dismounted) are my favorites.

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    1. I agree about the dromedaries. Seeing them on the Perrys site was the catalyst for starting this collection.

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  4. Great work, and even more impressive when assembled together on parade.

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    1. Ever since I wrote that post I can't get the tune 76 Trombones out of my head!

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  5. Well done, a lovely army. I see we are also displaying the classic wargamers anal retentiveness as regards labeling everything.

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    1. Thanks Robbie. Yes you are right...everything is labelled and they all have a specific way that they fit in the trays that only I can remember...well sometimes remember. In fairness the labels are a result of my graphic design background, but if you think that exhibits anal retentiveness, you should see that database that records the collection!

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  6. Lovely looking army, and an impressive storage system! Sorry to hear phase 2 has been delayed, still 1812 plastics sounds like it will keep you busy for a few weeks!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain. Yes it is disappointing that Phase 2 is delayed and until late February - this has been an expensive month. But you are right there is enough plastic to keep me going...between them and the Heavy Brigade (when they eventually get shipped) I have enough to keep me busy until midway through February, then there are a few buildings to see me through to early March.

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  7. Wonderful collection, I'm jealous. So are you considering collecting the Mamalukes as opponents for them?

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    1. Inshall be doning some mamalukes, but this is a later French in Egypt army and ther weren't an awful lot of mamelukes left in 1800. The original plan was to do only the Ottomans to oppose the French, but for two things, the firstvwas as mentioned above and the second is that the plan was to use Brigade Games as the supplier, and the price of an army from them is prohibitive and recent poor service has put me off them as a supplier.

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