Del Prado

My prime interest is PLASTIC Toy Soldiers but occasionally I pick up metal figures which interest me. Del Prado are quite expensive.

The Marlborough Cavalry Blenheim 1704 figure was issued with a  magazine Cavalry Through The Ages. I now have eighteen of these guys, all "converted" and "customised to represent Fitzjames Horse, a Franco-Irish Wild Geese regiment.




 The Confederate General Jeb Stuart was picked up in a second-hand store.





Fitzjames Horse?

I blog under the name "Fitzjames Horse". This is a tribute to the Franco-Irish "Wild Geese" Cavalry Regiment. I am involved in a research project on the Wild Geese. And I have a very tenuous family connexion.

 

The photograph is of a Del Prado Marlborough Cavalryman at Blenheim 1704. I have eighteen of these figures, which I have customised ...horse, colour, hair colour, facial hair, trumpet, standard into a rough approximation (I am not an expert converter) of how Fitzjames Horse would have looked.