New arrivals at Army Red/White Headquarters

Still recovering from his severe dose of paint  running ( as a result of varnishing yesterday) General Really-Constant, Commander in Chief of Army Red/White ( wearing the uniform worn by his ancestor in the Sonderbundskreige of 1847) greets new recruits for the forthcoming Centenary Games:

They will form part of the Staff of Really-Constant- the Danish Sailor will be the Signals officer, the representative of the C.S.A (continuing) will be Quartermaster and the splendid motorcycle rider will be a runner/ dispatch rider. The figures were painted splendidly  by and loaned by Al Front of http://alfront-wardiariesofalittleenglander.blogspot.co.uk/ who stout fellows will represent him in the forthcoming battles.
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Army Red/White on the march...

Army Red/White are currently mobilizing for the forthcoming H G Wells Centenary Games at Sandhurst.

                                               A unit of cyclists from the town of Thun

                                           An Infantry Unit also from the town of Thun

                                    A mountain gun and crew accompanied by a maxim gunner

                                             Dismounted Cavalry and accompanying machine gun

                                                 Staff  and signalers to follow...

Getting Ready 2

Morning all from a very rainy Tradgardland. Good for the garden but not for gardening.Yesterday was milder and Jan &I remodelled the herbaceous border by removing the plants ,adding compost,replacing some of the old ones and supplementing them with new plants bought on Friday.
We are a busy house today- Anna is finishing her Advanced Higher chemistry report and her Art final pieces,Zoe is sewing her 17th century doublet & breeches  for College,Freya is revising for exams and Jan is supporting them all splendidly. In the midst I am helping too and working on the Army Red/White chaps...

Cavalry Brigade CO and Staff on left,cavalry in foreground and infantry to rear of picture.

Cavalry & cavalry machine gun in foreground, signalers with pigeons & infantry maxim in the middle ground and mountain gun mule team in the background. Not forgetting (at the back) the Army's chaplain Fr Chantry-Pigg  named after a character in Rose Macaulay's "The Towers of Trebizond"  which has one of the best opening lines of any novel I have read.

Getting Ready!

Three weeks tomorrow Army red/White will fight their first battle.This will be at the FLW Centenary bash so I am busy getting them ready. The first to be worked on today are the cycle troops-

There is much to be done and I am out today too,must dash!

Happy Easter!

A Happy Easter to you all and looking forward to perhaps meeting some of you next month at the Centenary  Little Wars jamboree ...

Images of a forgotten Duchy-one

This rare item came up for auction recently. It was a limited production run by Royal Copenhagen for the Duchy of Tradgardland. Only fifty were ever produced.It depicts  Tradgardstadt in winter. It was purchased by an American collector for an undisclosed sum...

Updates...

Morning all from an equinox wind blown Tradgardland.
I have begun to prepare for the final push towards Paul's Centenary event in April.The lead is looked out,I emailed Giles at Dorset Soldiers about the remaining pieces I need to finish my smallish Army White force.In the interim I have been distracted by this-

A photograph of General Von Bergman -commander in chief of the army of the Duchy of Tradgardland circa 1912. I am attempting to model him and his beloved folding bicycle not to mention Matilda, Dowager Duchess of Tradgardland and Duke Albert's mother...

Hopefully I will have some piccies soon...

I have put  a link to some pages about the Duchy of Tradgardland in a link at the top of the page,do pop by if you get a chance...