Saluting Donald Featherstone’s Centenary

A small 54mm plastic parade for Donald Featherstone on his Centenary.

Celebrating Donald Featherstone’s Centenary on 20 March 2018

Donald F. Featherstone (1918 – 2013)

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/featherstone100-donald-featherstone-centenary-20-march-2018/

Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN, 20 March 2018.

More Dahomey Amazons

 

UNESCO series on Women in African History PDF

 

You can download this PDF graphic novel free at the following UNESCO website:

https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/sites/womeninafrica/files/pdf/The%20Women%20Soldiers%20of%20Dahomey_Women%20in%20African%20History_Comic%20Strip_0.pd

An unusual parade …

An interesting graphic novel about the Women Warriors of Dahomey, produced by UNESCO as part of their Women in Africa project or resources.

French colonial forces arriving against the Dahomey Amazons

I have previously posted about these female warriors and made the start on some Pound store plastic soldier conversions

https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/colonial-amazons-women-soldiers-of-dahomey-and-siam

Interesting Dahomey flags https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dahomey_flag_1889.svg

I have temporarily mislaid my pound store conversions of plastic soldiers into Dahomey Amazons but will eventually finish them. I don’t know of any current manufacturers of Dahomey Amazon gaming figures.

 

Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN 10 March 2018

Pound Store Snow Troops

36mm  Pound Store Plastic Warriors in the snow and ice today.

Inspired by the Tradgardmastre of the Duchy of Tradgardland

http://tradgardland.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/winter-in-medieval-tradgardland.html

More on snow and ski Troops on my other blog:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/snow-and-ski-troops/

Blogposted by Mark, Snow-Man of TIN, 2 March 2018.