Le Déshabillé d'une Midinette. 1907

WARNING! Some slight nudity below. I hope folks will take it in historical context.

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midinette - a Parisian salesgirl salesgirl, saleslady, saleswoman - a woman salesperson Here's how she did it.......(Large pictures, please click on them.)

Jean-Louis Forain sketchbook

Sketches from http://www.rmn.fr/   by Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931) of his model in stages of dress. These are from around 1900.

For Every Occasion.....

...postcards by A. Muller around 1900.

Plastic US Troops MEXICAN WAR

Some stock figures and conversions.

Some Armies In Plastic conversions...

Some Conte Collectibles conversions of Confederate troops to US Mexican War.

Carried off by the French!

 Referring back to this entry...

http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2010/07/carried-off-by-arabs.html

From Le Vie en Culotte Rouge...1903.

"Paco fait le zouave"    http://pacofaitlezouave.blogspot.com/

The Future Of War!!! 1866

La comédie de notre temps : études au crayon et à la plume. Les enfants, les jeunes, les mûrs, les vieux / par Bertall     Date d'édition : 1875 ..........There is an note on the last page that the article appeared in L'Illustration in 1866! Be sure to click on the pictures for larger images.

It starts here.....

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k205012v.image.r=La+Comedie+De+Notre+Temps.f210.langFR




                               ..but the "future" starts here with comments on 1866

                                                           Then the artist takes you to 1870!

                                                                         1880

                                                                           1890

                                                                                 1900

The war is over in 3 minutes!

I'm adding comment approval...

...because I don't want to miss any comments  on my older posts. Let's see if this works.

Old Stuff. MARX Minutemen

I sold these a while back but kept the photos of course. I never had them as a kid in the 50s 60s but was able to get them in 00s. They were from the Johnny Tremain set with some fictional characters like Johnny, and some "Founding Fathers," with Paul Revere.

Painted Semi-Flats Seven Years War

I have painted literally 1000s of these over 30 years to sell in gift shops. I still have these Seven Years War semi flats that I won an award for back in 1986. The original molds were Prince August hobby molds but I had some spin cast molds made that saved a lot of time and money.

I never got around to painting the French for my collection, just this one Cavalry unit.