First Unit Finished For The Govornment Forces 1745 Rising

 Having recieved the fantastic new Flags of War kickstarter I dived straight in to start getting some units finished. I have also been comparing my phone camera against the one on my new work phone, see what you think. The first lot are all on my new works phone.

I have 16 of the Royal Ecossaise painted so the pack of 8 loading is going to allow me to finish a formation of 24, first two here, really like these, always been a favourite unit of mine.

These particular pictures are a bit blurry on my works phone, common I found on a newer iphone.

These two are of course Redoubt not FoW but I decided to throw these into the mix on the painting table whilst I got stuck into the regulars.

I do like these dynamic figures and they are really useful for other periods.

Oh I also did a couple of figures for chum Chris, he is starting a Masai force and asked me what colours I had used in the past, thought it might be easier just to paint one for him.

The seargent is a freebie for hitting stretch goals and is a really lovely figure. I am not convinced I have done him justice, the laces just didnt come out as I wanted, even after 2 attempts. Still he looks OK here.

To finish of the Govornment formation I need 4 more musketeers or hat men, loading seemed the best fit for the firing line I am doing and they came out quite nice.

This gives a formation of 3 groups of 8, a total of 24 but I do have 8 Grenadiers to paint up at some point and add to them.

So having finished these 4 I based the three groups up,  have gone with the slightly slimmer bases Steve Shann and I are using for the AWI 40mm deep but only 35mm wide giving a very close formation. I like the result.

 

The one above and all next ones are all taken on my old personal camera, a slightly older iphone and generally ever so slightly worse quality pictures.

The hatmen slightly sharper and lighter. Looking good on this image.

I have used  darker red than usual for the British I think it looks much nicer here than the usual very bright one.

The seargent looks muc better on the new camera for some reason. Lovely figure either way.

This one looks OK but not perhaps as nice as the new camera, odd really.

These two really dont look so good on my old camera. The white looks grey on the officer.

This picture conversely actually looks quite nice.

The scots look pretty good on both cameras I think. Still keeping the majority of the plaids nice and simple in two colours with some highlights to bring them out.

I do love the big two handed swords despite the Jacobites in 1745 being mainly armed with musket and bayonet.

These Ecossaise are less blurry but not quite as colourful.

So just 6 more of these last and the unit is finished, that will be my focus next I think. Maybe being slightly blurred makes them look better?

Plenty to go at once these are done, possibly a mix of Highlanders and mounted officers once the Royal Ecossaise are done. Until then, stay safe!

The Road to Corunna Part 2

Well the week has flown by and really looking forward to our follow up game with Kens Spanish Civil War collection. This week joined by Lonnie on the Republican side and Ian on the Nationalists. Ian takes over the Morrocan regulares and I keep the Legionaires and some armour. Lonnie meanwhile will take over the International Brigades as they arrive on table along with the 2 T26's.

The Republican armoured car is ready to cross the river in support of the beleagured Anarchists and an updated prpaganda vehicles has replaced the truck, with a mega, mega phone.

In the village just one company of Anarchists remain, supported by their HQ and a donky loaded down with ammo.

At the Nationalist entry point a troop of Tankettes turn up, those twin machine guns should be useful despite the cardboard armour.

The opening salvo sees very few casualties and the Nationalists cavalry avoid a almost devastating case of friednly fire when the artillery deviates a little more than expected, the burst cirle less than 2 inches from the figures. 

The Nationalist forces push forward into cover in the village and surrounding woodsclosign in on the last of the Anarchists

W ethen get an airoplane, predictably the bombs miss, the MG just manage the one casualty but it looks nice!

The village and wood are becomign very over crowded as the Nationalists prepare to push the Anarchists out, the armoured car now being in support.

A flurry of fire and the Anarchists have taken three more casualties and run out of ammo, they make a dash towards their HQ and ammo donkey, closely followed by three dismounted cavalry, a brief melee sees the Anarchists detroyed and cavalry troop reduced to two figures. Only the HQ which cant be targeted remains of Steves poor anarchists.

The Republicans now get their aricraft and again miss with the bombs and inflict one casualty on Kens Carlists with the MG's.

A failed morale tests sees a pin marker on the Carlist company but the rest of Kens force is at the river and ready to push across the ford.

Further up the river my first company of Legionaires has reached the bank in the hope of discoverign another ford. They are out of luck and to make matters worse Robs Republicans inflict heavy casualties on them reducing them to half stregnth. I managed one casualty on Robs Republicans in response.

The last of the Anarchists flee over the river leaving the armoured car the only Republican forces this side of the ford.

Another event card and it turns out that the Morracans have shown the Carlists some dirty postcards and they downtools in disgust. No Carlist movement at all this turn. Sorry Ken.

The Nationalist armour is next out both the armoured car and the tankettes advance on the Republican armoured car. Only 2 can fire and a point of damage is logged against the Republicans.

Natioanlist artillery is drawn and I target the first unit of Republicans over the river, I get lucky and the random direction lands squarely on the unit with 8 figures under the template, when the dice are rolled and the smoke clears 7 of them are casualties and rest flee, the most effective artillery we have seen in these rules and a bonus to the Natioanlists as its te nearest unit to the ford.

Last move of the day and the Nationalist armour again target the Republican armoured car, inflicing more damage and a pin marker.

Ken targets a second unit of Robs Republicans with our newly arrived morate and inflicts the first casualty on them. The Carlists are now over the river.

My Legionaires are also at the river bank and starting to put some fire into Robs defenders, hopefully keepign them busy whilst the dismounted cavalry go for the Ford and Ians Morrocans follow up.

Last card out and our newly paid for Heavy machine gun arrives and we stick it in the back of our truck to support the Carlists. Last cards all now played and game over for the day.

Another great fun game, I reckon 2 more days of gaming in this as only half the table captured and the International Brigades are starting to arrive on the Republican table edge.

Part 3 in due course, unil then stay safe!

The Sikh Wars figures Just Keep Coming

 Hi again, more Sikh Wars to share with you this week. Really pleased with the current progress on the project and some of the colourful units starting to emerge.

This green coated unit is nearing completion with the Perry plastics fleshing the unit out and mixing quite well I think.

The Iron Duke Sikh Matchlock men are of course just lovely, the baggy sleeves great for a bit of added variety. I will probably add another plastic figure or two and may add in a shield for them as they look great on the Empress figures.

I also like the colour pallette on these Muslim Hill Tribes. The orange and blue in particular a good contrast. The kneeling plastic figure didnt quite come out as nice I was hoping but the figure firing whilst advancing I think worked really well.

They should mix in really well with the multiple other villains waiting in the painted box to be based up.

This particular Brigadier has come out rather well I feel, in full uniform with a nifty blood bay horse.

It is of course one of the Empress staff officers from the formerly Iron Duke Indian Mutiny range and fits in really well with the Sikh Wars collection. A lovely figure.

I have also managed part way through this post to finish off the last five of the Green Coated uniformed Sikh irregulars. I made the coats slightly lighter on this bunch though I dobt you will particularly notice when they are mixed into the unit, hoping it might add to the irregular look.

The outer two figures are wargames foundry with the right hand figure being a spearman with a jezail replacing the spear. The inner three are all Empress matchlock men.

Tha completes the unit and gives me another regiment and a couple of commanders to fire off to York for basing.

The mix of figures looks quite natural and only enhances the irregular nature of the unit. Hopefully the different shades of clothing also adds a little to that effect, we may see that on the pictures when they eventually come back from the basing department. 

Overall really happy with the look of this unit.

Again thats it for now, I may focus a little on the Jacobites for a few days before returning to the Bengal Europeans, lets see.

Until then stay safe everyone.