Reinforcements

Reinforcements for my Napoleonic Brits

Flank companies and some heavy dragoons. The mix in well with the old glory. I will add some comparisons soon.

15mm British Kings German Legion Old Glory

Another battalion completed. This time I done 30 with blue facings. I think they look better in 5 stands? Overall really pleased with them and it only took 1 day and an afternoon.

Lighting is quite poor. Photo has been taken late with my iPad.

A single stand to give a bit more detail. I think I need to highlight the metal and the faces. The wash has not done a lot for the faces. Overall quite happy. They look good on mass.

so far

15mm Napoleonic Battalion Old Glory & Blue Moon

1st Battalion is completed. I know I could have done more to them but with another 10 battalions to paint and then the French, I decided to stop. They didn't take to long to be honest. And I really enjoyed painting them. I do feel its a little small? Maybe 1 more base? Old glory minis, 30X30 bases, 6 minis to a base. I might add 4 skirmishers that sit on the end?

15mm Napoleonic British Old Glory

Hi All 

sorry for the lack of blogging I have been away to Las Vegas during the summer months and wargaming has been put on the back burner. I have managed a few games at Heston & Ealing wargaming club. Mostly Napoleonic, as the club was gearing up for the battle of Talavera.
So I have finally made a start on my Old Glory Napoleonic British that I picked up at Salute.
Overall the flash was not that bad.

I'm trying a new painting plan. Normally I prepare and undercoat the entire army ready for painting. This normally leads to me having burn out and not completing the task. This time I'm going to paint them as a unit. I will be basing these for Black Powder. 30mm X 30mm 6 minis to a base.  The second picture is going to be a large battalion of guards.

As you can see I have a range of command figures added to the battalion. I start by painting the bases, this is very important as you don't want to ruin your paint job. Next all the black parts, hats, bags & boots. Then grey trousers, great coats. Brown for the gun. Skin. Then the white straps. Boltgun Metal for gun parts and swords. Finally a wash, nuln oil for the grey and the gun. Agrax Earthshade wash for the rest of the mini. Once this is fully dry the mini is a little dark so i will highlight with the original colours. final pic is after the shading wash. this was completed in 3 evenings. I will add a finished close up asap. Thanks for looking

15mm French Napoleonic

Hello all.
I wanted to have a go at painting some 15mm Napoleonic before jumping. A friend kindly gave me a load of 15mm Old Glory campaign French. I took my time and researched the uniforms before going made. I completed a battalion for Napoleons Battles, I did not base them so he could match them to the rest of his forces. First attempt so be kind.

picture does not do them justice, i used an iphone. pictures a little blurry but you see some of the detail. and now for the reverse

The lighting and camera does bot show the highlights i'm afraid but overall i was happy. sadly i did not have any matt varnish. so i used gloss varnish. not happy with the result but my friend will matt varnish them once he has based them all.

way to shiny for me but i will wait to see the finished product. i really like the Old Glory figures they have lots of character and detail. i will get a full photo of the battalion when their finished. thanks for reading.

Help!

Hi all. I started this blog to highlight my wargaming exploits, so far I have not added any of my Games Workshop stuff. I have been wargaming for years off and on. I originally started by shopping in  Games Workshop back in the early 80s. It was the original store in Hammersmith London.
However I have lost interest in my preferred game 40K. I still have a huge Space Wolf army, Black Templar, Chaos Space Marine and Imperial Guard, I will add some photos soon. But I don't know what to do with this lot? As you can see its undercoated matt grey and some even have a split red and black style going on, sadly they are now just taking up space.
Shall I dump them on eBay or start a new project? The original idea was to have a bespoke chapter that I could use for any codex, all I needed to do was change out the characters and sergeants to give them some character.
At the front of the pic is an entire jump army for the blood angels and loads of terminators for another drop force. I still have a load on sprues including about 20 Dark Angel veterans. I also have a bitz box that's better than a GW store.
Please let me know what you think I should do? It seems a shame to just get rid? I suppose the funds could be used to finish my Napoleonic projects and start Some American Civil War forces.
Thanks for looking
Alans

Command & Colours Napoleonic

Hi all
I recently got hold of a copy of Command @ Colours Napoleonics. I have heard a lot of good things about this game so I finally got a copy.
Lots of people have already done a review of this game so I will try to add a review after my first game. Before that happens I need to to put the stickers on the wooden blocks.

 I sorted the blocks out into the armies and sizes. No surprise here blue for French, Red for Britain 

and brown for Portugal and now the stickers 

As you can see lots to do.. I managed to do them all in a couple of hours, must have been all the sticker albums I had as a child. That's enough for now, I will add a review ASAP. Many thanks for looking.