I thought they couldn't get smaller! 10mm ECW additions.

 An update for the 10mm ECW figures I have been doing.

King and Parliament has some units equipped with attached light guns, given my small unit footfall and the fact that the units had to fit comfortably onto a 10cm hex grid system it would have been impractical to use 10mm figures to represent these attached artillery pieces. I therefore sent to Baccus for their 6mm figures and mounted them on a separate round base so that they could be used as representations of the guns. They fit in well and yet the size difference between the two figure scales shows that this is a marker which can be added to the unit as required.

Denzil Holle's battalia, Parliament.

Sir Thomas Saulsbury's first battalia, pike heavy, Royalist.

Sir Thomas Saulsbury's second battalia pike only. Royalist.

I have a couple of weeks holiday coming up soon so I intend to get all of my fairly considerable 10mm French and Russian 1812 armies out and onto the table top for a good sized General de Armee game so keep an eye out for that report later next month.

Dave.

10mm ECW progress

 Don't worry Mick I'm getting on with it!

One of the club lads have been waiting patiently for me to pull my finger out and get on with some more 10mm ECW (Edgehill) troops. To be fair the 10mm Napoleonic's have had priority to get them finished but that's just an excuse really, so, as I said, Mick, here are some at least.

The cavalry will complete a brigade each for the King's side and parliament while the dragoons give one rgt to the parliamentarians and two to the King. Dragoons of course are the usual pain in the bum as you need mounted and dismounted. I could do with horse holders but as nobody seems to do them in 10mm I will have to convert some ACW Pendraken to do the job.

Duncombe's and Aston's royalist dragoons.

Brown's parliamentary dragoons.

Waller and Wharton's parliamentarian horse.

Carnarvon and Lord Wilmot's royalist horse.

As usual for me I have just found that I'm short of a few French Napoleonic 10mm skirmish stands. It's never finished until it's finished eh!

Dave.

Almost there, 10mm Napoleonic 1812.

 It's been almost one and a half years in the doing but I'm almost done with the 10mm 1812 Napoleonic's. I did have a bit of a head start with the rebasing of my 'Blucher' rules based figures but I have added considerable numbers to the original collection to get to this point. Now of course before anyone comes on and says nothing is ever finished in a wargame collection, well of course you are right. However I do feel at a point where there are two fairly well matched sides both of whom have enough unit types to vary things a bit if I so wish.

I have said this before but it's worth repeating that if I were starting wargaming again I would go for 10mm for set piece games and keep 28mm for skirmish. My 7' by 4' table just won't cope with a medium size 28mm battle and leave any room for anything other than line em up, roll the dice and knock em down type games which I hate. 10mm with reduced scales allow a good spacious game with plenty of manoeuvring room which makes you think a bit!

The OOB's were sourced from various places and as is always the case everyone was different so a little bit of compromise has to take place. Obviously one from the beginning of the campaign is going to be considerably different from one from say Borodino and I don't want to be stuck with just 1812 but would like to move the collection on into 1813/14 as well. The figures are a mix of Pendraken, Old Glory and Magister Militum which at this scale mix together fine.

 The Russians.

There are thirty battalions of foot, fourteen regiments of cavalry, eight batteries of guns with command and skirmish bases thrown in.

The full Russian force, Tuchov's III corps with a brigade of Opelchenie and a cuirassier brigade attached.

12lb's of the Russian foot artillery.

The first Grenadier brigade of Strogonov's 1st Division with skirmish stands.

Russian Jager battalions with their replacement skirmish stands if they wish to be deployed as such.

The second Grenadier brigade of Strogonov's 1st Division.

The corps cavalry brigade.

Attached reserve batteries and a militia (Opelchenie) brigade.

An attached Cossack brigade, one of whom is painted up as Guard Cossacks for 1814.

Cuirassiers with a horse battery.

Another picture of those Jagers.

A side view of the Russian cavalry.

The French.

There are thirty four battalions of foot, twelve regiments of horse and eleven batteries of artillery, plus command and skirmish bases.

Friant and Morand's divisions of Davout's 1st corps with supporting cuirassiers and reserve artillery.

Reserve artillery and two cuirassier brigades.

Divisional artillery and attached cavalry brigade.

Morand's 1st division with Davout himself left of picture.

Friant's 2nd division.

Different angle of the 1st division, note the skirmish stands in front, one for each battalion.

The armies are set up for General de Armee rules but can of course be utilised for other sets. Took a bit of doing but I got there in the end!

Dave.

One wedding, two illnesses and a visit. Oh yes and some painting!

 Sounds dramatic but I feel some explanation may be required for my absence on the blogging front.

The wedding, my son Jack was married on Easter Monday and my wife and I couldn't be more proud, a great three days it was. There all three days now, say no more but it was great.

Two illnesses, my wife tore the muscle behind her knee and nearly didn't make it to the aforesaid wedding, poor bugger she's getting better slowly but its been hard going for both of us. I then came down with has to be said was not flue but was a bitch of a cold which I'm still trying to throw off. The combination of being sixty and like everyone else having a low immune system due to isolation doesn't help!

Anyway enough whinging, I did get a bit of painting done and have only now got the opportunity to get it on here. 10mm Napoleonic again, I'm getting to a point where I can see the end of the tunnel with this project, the equivalent of one corps of Russian and half of Davout's corps (which equates to a normal size corps in 1812) will do for now.

Polish Uhlans (Russian).

Russian cuirassiers.

Two combined Grenadier battalions (hence no flags)

.Finally a brigade of French light infantry, five battalions. Not sure if I like the full dress version but never mind.

I did get some skirmish stands done as well as some 28mm horse holding French Dragoons for Sharp Practice but will leave them for another day.

Lets hope the next few months aren't quite so manic!

Dave.

How many! 10mm French horse artillery.

 Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "pity me I'm poor" cause I ain't poor, I'm just careful with my money. Yeh, tight! But only on the odd occasion have I been in a position to start a wargame project totally from scratch, I have usually relied on at best other people wanting to get rid of figures and giving/selling them cheap to me God bless em so didn't rely on orders of battle but just used what was available and maybe added a few units to make them about right.

But with these 10mm Napoleonic 1812 figures I did decide to sell my 15mm stuff to fund this lot from scratch so could therefore look at various OOBs and go from there. Where dear reader is this all going, well it is telling you that I have always assumed in my ignorance that generally with the French only the cavalry brigades had the horse artillery attached with maybe a couple in the corp reserve. Shit there's loads, each division had one foot and one horse battery attached. So I had to paint them didn't I.

Here is a photo of one, I have done six of these plus one 12lb and some limbers so I'm sick of bloody artillery for now.

French light infantry next.

Dave.