Whilst I was feeling somewhat under the weather after my recent ‚flu and COVID jabs, I did manage to sort out my Belle Époque armies and label each unit base with a small self-adhesive 25mm x 10mm laser-printed label. I also moved them from storage in a variety of different plastic boxes and onto A4-sized self-adhesive magnetic sheets that had been fixed to 3mm-thick sheet of plywood.

As I did this, I took the opportunity to photograph each army:

Republic of Burgundy

Kingdom of Schwarzenberg

Sultanate of Khakistan

Emirate of Khyberistan

Principality of Hyderapore

Sultanate of Sahel

Principality of Stalbania

Khedivate of Zubia

Sultanate of Harabia

The majority of the figures are from the Colonial ranges produced by Essex Miniatures, but there are also a significant number from Miniature Figurines (mainly the Burgundian infantry, which are from the American Civil War range, and the Stalbanians, which are from the American World War I range), and Irregular Miniatures (the Khyberistanis, which are from the Colonial range). Most of the artillery pieces were manufactured by Peter Laing Miniatures.

Some of these figures have been in my collection for a very long time. For example, I painted what are now the Burgundian and Schwarzenberg infantry in the early 1980s, and acquired the bulk of the Essex Miniatures in the late 1990s. The latter were already painted and were supplied by a company whose name I cannot recall.

An associated YouTube video will be available later today.