Warlord 28mm Prussian Uhlans

 One of my lads knowing roughly what was required bought me these figures for Xmas and I've now got round to painting them. At first I had some reservations about another plastic set of figures especially as I hadn't painted up Warlord stuff before but at £24, £2 per figure you can't get cheaper which suited the lads budget.

The figures are pretty clean requiring only a little snipping and shaving though the type of plastic Warlord use requires a particularly sharp blade or it will just leave frayed bits but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the figures were really well sculpted with a good deal of detail for both horses and riders. I did of course replace the lances and pennants supplied with the figures as their bendiness would have been one step too far, the paint would never have stayed on them. When finished the figure are light in weight but hey you pays your money and takes your choice.

The horses were done in oils with the excess wiped off then allowed to dry, it's not a method I use much but I gave it a go and the look ok. The blue of the riders were  done using contrast paint with a light blue undercoat, again fine and pretty easy to do.

I now have three battalions of Perry Landweher which will complete the very large Prussian brigade I own to do next.

Stay safe,

Dave.

10mm Napoleonic additions, 1812/14.

Well, like everyone a pretty quiet Xmas and New Year, everyone safe and that's the main thing. Missing wargaming with the lads and I haven't really bothered with setting solo games up but I did get a small amount of painting done.

Continuing with rounding off my 10mm 1812/14 Napoleonic figures, there must be about a couple of divisions per side now plus cavalry etc.

Russian cavalry:

Russian infantry:

French infantry:

Mix of manufacturers, Pendraken, Old Glory, Majester Militum.

I'm not one for setting out plans for painting in 2021, frankly I can't remember what I did yesterday never mind planning what I'll do this year!

Take care and stay safe.

Dave.

(Somewhat resembling) York Rangers (Ramsay's)1793-97

Continuing with the ongoing assembly of a Emigre brigade for the allied side in the French Revolution a raid into the odds and sods box pulled out a bag of 28mm AWI Old Glory Queens Rangers. So a grub through my reasonable collection of uniform info in all its varying forms found the nearest emigre unit to be the York Rangers, a light infantry unit raised in 1793 by Cpt G Ramsay comprised mainly of Germans with French/Irish emigre officers and deployed in Flanders for that campaign.

Now I will of course admit that I have taken some liberties with the figures in order to represent the unit. The head piece is ok other than the front plate which should be a star and the leggings need to be longer, stretching down to the boots. The water canteen is not shown in illustrations but I figured they have picked some up from the brits. The flags are completely made up! But here's the fantasy bit, the pack of Queens Rangers contained four grenadier and four lads in kilts and I'm afraid I couldn't resist painting them. Let me state quite categorically that there is no evidence whatsoever for grenadiers and highland dressed chaps in this unit.

The pictures aren't great, I was having a bad camera day:

The fantasy bit.

I think there's one more set of figures in their to paint up but back to 10mm Naps for now.

Dave.

One for the future. 10mm ECW

 As short post for a small unit. I don't usually post pictures of 10mm units one at a time and I won't get into a habit of doing so after this but I have to say I was quite pleased with these 10mm Pendraken ECW figures. Many more to do in the middling distant future bit I couldn't resist painting up one to start with and of course it had to be the King's Lifeguard. Going along with the 10mm theme I'm using for other periods each unit will fit into the 100mm hexes I recently purchased, hence the small size of the units frontage.

Many more to go of course.

Dave.

I said I would and I did. 10mm rebasing.

 I was never really happy with the Blucher rules system. That's no disrespect to those who like it or especially to Mr Mustapha but it just wasn't for me. A bit generic, a bit bland. You could have been fighting any horse and musket period really. However I went for it as it allowed replicating a largish encounter on a reasonable sized table which given Corvid and the inability to get to the local club would have suited me just fine as I have a 7' x 4' table available at home and I know how lucky I am to have that.

I will hold my hands up and admit that I should have played Blucher with the cards a great deal more than I did before going to all of the effort of basing up figures and then finding that I wasn't keen on the rule system but hey ho there you go. They were good figures, well based but nobody was willing to pay what I felt they were worth. That's no disrespect to any of the guys involved, it takes two to Tango as they say. So what to do?

I have been and will continue to sell my 15mm collection, this will fund the conversion and expansion of the 10mm Napoleonic chaps which (as you will see) have been re-based on a 90mm frontage per unit both to fit onto the hex terrain I use but primarily to allow the smaller frontage to get more troops onto the table I use thereby allowing larger battles to be fought. That's the idea anyhow. Rules of choice will be Dave Brown's General De Armee, a rule set that I and the club are familiar with and which I used for 15mm figures but now with a smaller frontage and probably game scale as well but I haven't started looking at that yet.

So the dreaded re-basing it was, The figures you will see below are predominantly re-based from their Blucher bases onto the 25mm x 20mm Fire and Fury sized bases which will allow me to use the Age of Eagles ruleset as well if I so wish. I will of course be adding to them having ordered from Pendraken and Magister Millitum aiming for a couple of divisions plus cavalry per side.Don't ask a time scale, you know how it is!

The Russians, 1812-14

The French 1812-14

I have done some bits and bobs of terrain but I'll leave that for another post. Take care out there guys and girls.

Dave.