LOCH SLOIDH!

For those with an interest in trivia, here's a bit about myself.

20mm Airfix Waterloo Royal Horse Artillery
Painted and photographed in early 1970's

My name is Ross Macfarlane, I was born in Montreal in 1955 and after serving in the Canadian navy, I settled in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1979. I apparently inherited a love of Toy Soldiers from my mother's father and began playing with Crescent, Lone Star, Britain's, Marx and other 54 mm figures at an age beyond my first memories. Later I discovered Airfix 20mm figures, and at 16 years old as a cadet in the Black Watch of Canada, when playing with Toy Soldiers was no longer cool, I was saved by Don Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers and moved on to painting and then wargaming with Model Soldiers. These were of course the same Airfix figures!

1997 25mm Medieval game using Armati Rules My Scots vs
Ron Porter's English. Troops vary from newly painted Revenge
to refurbished Minifigs 1st painted back in 1974 but still active.

While at le College Militaire Royal de St. Jean, I discovered Charge! by Lawford and Young and 30mm metal figures. Shortly after, Simon MacDowall and I got hooked on WRG 1,000BC to ad 1,000 Wargame Rules 3rd Edition , and after slaving over various Airfix figures with a hot soldering iron, the wild Celtic tribesmen and heavy cavalry of Valdur 1st took the field against Aquilonia's legions to the south and the barbarian hordes from Asgard in the north soon to be reinforced by 25mm metal wargame figures from Minifigs and Garrison After joining the Montreal Wargames Club, we slowly converted our private armies into historical ones. Simon has since gone on to write several books on Late Roman armies and their contemporary allies and enemies as well as several sets of rules.. .

54mm metal MacDuff, Cu Mor Beag and BlackWatch highlanders 1857.
Britain's recasts from Soldier Pac + wolfhound from Langly.

All of my books on wargaming and on collecting urged me to concentrate on one period or theme, unfortunately, one of my first reference books was Funcken's Le Costume et les Armes des soldats de tous les temps and this seems to have become my theme! After many armies of Military Miniatures in many scales, fighting under many rules both commercial and homemade, a few years ago, I rediscovered Toy Soldiers and fun and have tried since to blend the 3 sides of my hobby: recreation of history through research and wargaming, craft through the painting and conversion of models (ie Toy Soldiers) and fun through playing.

Hector playing the role of Hektar the Great Cat God in a 54mm Colonial Game.

20mm Airfix Waterloo Royal Horse Artillery Painted and photographed in early 1970's	My name is Ross Macfarlane, I was born in Montreal in 1955 and after serving in the Canadian navy, I settled in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1979. I apparently inherited a love of Toy Soldiers from my mother's father and began playing with Crescent, Lone Star, Britain's, Marx and other 54 mm figures at an age beyond my first memories. Later I discovered Airfix 20mm figures, and at 16 years old as a cadet in the Black Watch of Canada, when playing with Toy Soldiers was no longer cool, I was saved by Don Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers and moved on to painting and then wargaming with Model Soldiers. These were of course the same Airfix figures!
1997 25mm Medieval game using Armati Rules My Scots vs Ron Porter's English. Troops vary from newly painted Revenge to refurbished Minifigs 1st painted back in 1974 but still active.	While at le College Militaire Royal de St. Jean, I discovered Charge! by Lawford and Young and 30mm metal figures. Shortly after, Simon MacDowall and I got hooked on WRG 1,000BC to ad 1,000 Wargame Rules 3rd Edition , and after slaving over various Airfix figures with a hot soldering iron, the wild Celtic tribesmen and heavy cavalry of Valdur 1st took the field against Aquilonia's legions to the south and the barbarian hordes from Asgard in the north soon to be reinforced by 25mm metal wargame figures from Minifigs and Garrison After joining the Montreal Wargames Club, we slowly converted our private armies into historical ones. Simon has since gone on to write several books on Late Roman armies and their contemporary allies and enemies as well as several sets of rules.. .
54mm metal MacDuff, Cu Mor Beag and BlackWatch highlanders 1857. Britain's recasts from Soldier Pac + wolfhound from Langly.	All of my books on wargaming and on collecting urged me to concentrate on one period or theme, unfortunately, one of my first reference books was Funcken's Le Costume et les Armes des soldats de tous les temps and this seems to have become my theme! After many armies of Military Miniatures in many scales, fighting under many rules both commercial and homemade, a few years ago, I rediscovered Toy Soldiers and fun and have tried since to blend the 3 sides of my hobby: recreation of history through research and wargaming, craft through the painting and conversion of models (ie Toy Soldiers) and fun through playing.
	Hector playing the role of Hektar the Great Cat God in a 54mm Colonial Game.