1866 Saxon Flags

[cameronian]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Quite true!  But I am afraid when I found out, I left the Standard Bearer out of my Bavarian Cuirassier regiments, as I just couldn't be a...d!

Mollinary

[Hertsblue]

Quite true!  But I am afraid when I found out, I left the Standard Bearer out of my Bavarian Cuirassier regiments, as I just couldn't be a...d!

Mollinary

Couldn't you have sent him off to your highly skilled gentlemen on the other side of the world? 

[mollinary]

Couldn't you have sent him off to your highly skilled gentlemen on the other side of the world? 

Yes, I suppose so - but the flag is so small, and the detail so complicated, I wasn't sure that it was worth the hassle.   

Mollinary

[fsn]

Well, I really don't think that's the attitude! If we all stopped bothering about little things, we'd disappear up our own inconsequence!

[mollinary]

Great attitude, fsn.  So I'll send them to you, shall I? 

Mollinary

[cameronian]

I should pull rank fsn, he sounds a bit insubordinate to me.

[mollinary]

I should pull rank fsn, he sounds a bit insubordinate to me.

A bit like a Captain ratting on a Colonel to a Brigadier, you mean?   

Mollinary

[fsn]

Great attitude, fsn.  So I'll send them to you, shall I? 

I recognise my limits: I print all my flags. If I can't find a proper copy, I can make a reasonable facsimile about A4 size that shrinks down quite nicely.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ahem...
Gentlemen!
I wish not to dress anyone down here...

I paint those I cannot find a print out for! 

[cameronian]

A bit like a Captain ratting on a Colonel to a Brigadier, you mean?   

Mollinary

That's not insubordination, that's good staff work.

[mollinary]

That's not insubordination, that's good staff work.

And it's an attitude like that, pursued by my namesake, that lost your favourites the war!   

Mollinary

[fsn]

I should pull rank fsn, he sounds a bit insubordinate to me.

Indeed no, good Cameronian. I may have driveled and waffled my way into a superior rank to friend Mollinary, but he has the gravitas that comes from long experience. It was my surprise at seeing him apparently so easily thwarted that inspired my reproof of him.

('sides which he's a blue belt with a steely glint in the eye)

[cameronian]

Indeed no, good Cameronian. I may have driveled and waffled my way into a superior rank to friend Mollinary, but he has the gravitas that comes from long experience. It was my surprise at seeing him apparently so easily thwarted that inspired my reproof of him.

('sides which he's a blue belt with a steely glint in the eye)

All of which is correct but its vital he doesn't know it, shhhhhhhhhh.

[cameronian]

Probably more appropriate for the books section however since we've gathered most of the 1866ers together here has anybody read Simon Winders 'Danubia', it looks rather good.