Finally finished some more figures

Woo who, I have finished figures and post them on my blog.  The 12th light dragoons, Front rank and really, really lovely.  

And a brigade commander painted as John Vandeleur (I think that's the spelling) along with trumpeter and officer.  Obviously not based but still look pretty good.

Cheers

28mm Napoleonic Spanish

Well the holidays are over and it is now back to work and the normal grind.  I have been busy painting this bundle of joy for the last couple of months, painting all that white was quite a chore.

There are four units in total, one regiment with blue facings and one with green.  The chap I painted them for is going to attach the standards and wanted the first battalion drummers to have the blue uniform and the second battalion with plain white.

This final pictures is the rough approximation for the design on the bags of bear skins. The actual designs are insanely complicated so I went for an approximation and made sure they were uniform.  

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and that 2014 brings plenty of wargaming.

Midweek wargaming

Is a beautiful thing.  Got my 10mm 7yw armies out for a game against an old mate Dave. It was just a straight put figures on and try to defeat the other side.  This was the deployment right at the beginning, Dave had the forces of good King George and I had the dastardly French.  The Germans are at the top of the picture deployed between the two woods.  The French are at the bottom. Any dice in the pictures are hit markers. I need to make some others up. 

A quick shot of the French from the German lines:

The two lines in the middle just moved and got involved in a slow fire fight. Looked good but just lots of disorders on both side so not much exciting happening:

On the French right the poor French infantry were attacked by the finest cavalry in the world:

And surprisingly not only fight them off, but the cavalry rout and the unit left failed a morale throw and retreated disordered:

Then I rolled a blunder and one of those same French units charged the disordered Cavalry and beat them in hand to hand combat, the fact they could not counter charge really helped:

The French managed to break that cavalry brigade then attack into the woods and started to chew on the infantry defending the woods:

So although an infantry brigade from each side had been broken in the middle by slowly blowing each other to pieces, on the French left I managed to get an overwhelming number of guys and broke the infantry defending the woods.  A French win, and for the first time in weeks I won against Dave.  Hurrah.

Thanks for the photos from Dave, his camera is so much better than mine.

NO MORE BROWN

At least for a little while, the following were the final installment of cacadores for a commission.

They are based on 8cmx4cm mdf bases and look pretty good spread out like that.  The first two pictures are the same unit, red cuffs and brown collars, as I have said before I have no idea which regiment this might be. 

And the second lot in light blue cuff and brown collars.

The only problem with taking photos is you then see any small mistakes that you did not see with the naked eye, I must be getting old.  

I have also added a few more blogs to the list, these chaps do some fantastic work.   

Elite Miniatures Cacadores

I have completed two units that are part of a commission.  They are all elite miniatures which are really easy to paint.  I have no idea what regiments they are, the one has a brown collar and light blue cuffs, the other a brown collar and red cuffs.  I  have left the six figures on the right of the regiment with black plums, I know  these were the elite company (can not remember what they are called...).

 

The bases are 40mm x 40m mdf.  Now I am on to the next thirty in skirmish order. 

28mm Napoleonics Again

So now I can actually get on blogger I am managing to update it more often.  Here are some of the miniatures I painted whilst I could not get on, French front rank in overcoats.  They are based on 40mm x 40mm mdf bases.  The flag was replaced with steel wire and is GMB (which are great by the way). 

As with most of the stuff I put on ebay these were purchased a long time ago as part of a giant project that never took off.  

I enjoyed painting these, before this it had been years since I had painted 28mm, it is fun but I have no where to put a single army never mind two.

Lovely Front Rank Dragoons

I have finished a commission for these dragoons, they are the 11th light dragoons, they are done for Waterloo.  They are a unit of 18, the light buff facings were a problem because what colour exactly is light buff???  The first two pictures are the full unit, they are based in threes and are 75mm across and 60mm deep. 

And some close ups, I did enjoy doing these but I always forget how long horses can take.

Front rank makes some lovely figures and I would recommend them to anyone.