25mm Hinchliffe Napolionics

 As the occasional readers of this blog may be aware my interest in wargaming was initially influenced by Brig Peter Young's book The Wargame bought for my birthday by my parents at about the age of 14, 64 now so a while ago! the figures particularly in the Napoleonic bits were fantastic and truthfully I have fancied having something similar ever since.

I have therefore gone down the duel route of buying the odd figure from the manufacturers and eBay for the majority. The ones from eBay generally required a degree of either tarting up or even stripping down and re-painting. Brown vinegar is by far the best and smelliest! Never mind the fancy stuff on line.

So this is , or will be a collection. I don't particularly intend to wargame with these figures and will increase the collection only as and when suitable figures come up on line. If 1815 British figures come up then I would be interested.

Anyhow here they are:

These were bought pretty much as you see them, there are a couple of Minifig figs in here but they look ok.

grenadiers a cheval, half of these figures are the officer type but I just removed the epaulettes. 

Dutch lancers, these needed quite a bit of work.

Two squadrons of Dragoons, half bought from the manufacturer while the others need stripping right down and repainted.

A battery of foot artillery.

Guard Grenadiers.

Guard Chasseurs.

Napoleon and Ney.

Various Marshals.

I left the bases plain to keep the 'old school' look, I haven't decided if I should do more with the bases yet.

Dave.

Prince August 40mm SYW

 More progress on my 'Old School' Prince August 40mm SYW figures collection. Quite a few added, the existing Austrian battalion was brought up to the 48 figs plus 5 officers on foot and one mounted, as standard in the 'Charge' rules.

One more 'blue' battalion added as above, plus two battalion guns.

Next was one Prussian battalion, the artillery still to be added.

I have one Prussian Fusilier battalion still to paint up, guns to cast and cavalry moulds ready to use.

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Have a great day,

Dave.

10mm ECW additions

 Additional ECW Battalia completed for both sides, as usual based up for King and Parliament but will do for most rule sets.

Richard Bolle's Rgt (standard) Royalist

Sir John Belasyse's Rgt (Pike only) Royalist.

Sir Edward Fitton's Rgt (Pike heavy) Royalist.

Lord Robart's Rgt (Large battalia) Parliament.

William Constable's Rgt (Large) Parliament.

I'm catching up with posting photographs of painted stuff so more to come soon.

Happy Easter if that's your thing.

Dave.

15mm Thirty Years War game

 I'll get my excuses in now, we have got a new Tibetan Terrier (Nelly) after sadly loosing our dog Lexi just before Xmas so I have had neither the time nor frankly the inclination to port on here. The new dog is lots of fun but of course loads of work but well worth it.

Anyhow, I went over to Neil's place for a couple of weeks to game with his TYW 15mm collection and after a couple of sessions using the Twilight of Divine Right rule set by the Pike and Shot Society. Neil knows his stuff and recons the rules combine the accuracy and playability needed, he also has a great collection of figures as you will see.

Both armies lined up, Swedish to the top, Imperialists to the bottom of the picture.

My Imperialist cuirassiers on my left.

Swedish cavalry on Neil's left.

My Cuirassiers piling into the mounted shot and sneaky Hussar types mooching around the flanks.

Kind of ended up a bit of a stalemate on this flank. Rather disappointing as I had hoped for better.

Neil's Swedes had the edge on the other flank. 

Like I said, very nice figures.

The big push of pike in the centre, excellent Swedish Rgts vs large mediocre Imperial Tercios.

It all started to go horribly wrong as the Imperial Tercios collapsed one by one.

In the end my centre collapsed with the Swedish piling forward singing bloody Abba songs!
Certainly met my Waterloo anyway!

Good game,

Dave.

6mm Anglo Zulu War

 I have tinkered with colonial wargaming in the past, I had 15mm Anglo Egyptian/British/ Boer but sold it years ago. The main reason for not doing it again was that you need an awful lot of natives painted up against a small number of Europeans and I apart from the expense I would get sick of painting the large numbers of natives required or in this case "Zulus Sir, thousands of em."

Now offspring can, if your not careful cost you a great deal of money but when they get a bit older they (God bless their cotton socks) can come in very useful as far as modern technology is concerned. This instance being 3D printers, well beyond my ken. My lad (he's 34 for goodness sake!) is a keen painter of fantasy figures, prints his own and was kind enough to offer to print off any wargaming figures that I required. Now having watched Little Wars TV Isandlwana where they used 6mm Baccus figures I was of course hooked, add free 3D printed Zulus and away we went. At first we tried this file in 10mm but the figures were far too chunky but shrunk down to 6mm they worked a treat.

The British and the Natal native contingent are Baccus while the necessary large numbers of Zulu regiments are resin prints cut up from their five base strips and spread about on the bases. An awful lot more Zulus to do plus mounted Brits.

More to come no doubt.

Dave.