is not a real big fan of pre-painted minis, and he positively despises randomly-packed "collectable" ones - so why is he writing this article?
Aly Morrison, the designer for our Shiny Toy Soldiers range, has taken time out recently to paint up some of his own figures, and here they are:
The Franco-Prussian Shiny Toy Soldiers are painted as The Foreign Legion. The Shinies are painted as The Hohenlohe regiment from the French army that invaded Spain in 1823-24. This short-lived unit (established 1815, disbanded 1831) is, of course, taken from Auguste De Moltzeim's magnificent volume on the French army of the Restoration.