The War of Spanish Succession... Charles Churchill's Regiment of foot (The Buffs)

Another unit from the miniatures that I bought off my friend Adrian...


Charles Churchill's Regiment of Foot...(The Buff's).


The origins of the regiment lay in Thomas Morgan's Company of Foot, The London Trained Bands, which was in existence from 1572 to 1648.


During The War of Spanish Succession they were in action at...


The Battle of Blenheim... 1704.
The Battle of Ramillies... 1706.
The Battle of Oudenarde... 1708.


As with the Foot Guards the only work done on these was...


Tidy up a few chips...
Varnish the leather goods...
Re flag..
And rebase...

Another very pleasing unit...


I made the standards myself using the Robert Hall plate (G103) from the Pike and Shot Society only to realise that I had ordered one from Maverick Models...
Which turned out to be almost identical... never mind ... the practice will do me good...


The Pike and Shot Society.
https://www.pikeandshotsociety.org/


The bases were, as always... Warbases.
https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/


The miniatures are... Front Rank.
https://www.frontrank.com/product-category/18th-century/spanish-succession/wss-british-infantry/




And last but not least Maverick Models...
http://www.maverick-models.com/flags.htm



All the best   Aly

Adrian Shepherd

I was deeply saddened to learn today of the death of my good friend Adrian Shepherd AKA The Beast of Bukhara...


For those of you who new him I need make no introduction...
For those of you unfortunate enough not to have experienced that pleasure he was one of the most delightful, enthusiastic and friendly people you could ever meet...
The first time I met Adrian was over thirty years ago when he pretty much invited himself round for a wargame...
Not long afterward he had moved in over the road... and had persuaded me to help him with an impressively large recreation of the Battle of Blenheim to put on at the Partizan show in Newark ... this of course involved me painting lots of 28mm figures and helping build the 6x24 foot table for the game to be played on...
As I write I am still painting 28mm War of Spanish Succession... thought this time for myself... but I am also building a Caquot Type M Observation Balloon at Adrian's request to use in an impressively large recreation of  a WW1 battle on the River Tigris... to put on at the Partizan show in Newark... not much change there then...


As always an artful persuader with an eye for the spectacular...


I will miss you old friend.

All the best  Aly

The War of Spanish Succession... British First Foot Guards.

This is the first of the units that I bought from my good friend Adrian...


The First Foot Guards...


Raised in 1656.


In The War of Spanish Succession they saw action at...


The Schellenberg... 1704.
Blenheim... 1704.
Gibraltar... 1704-1705.
Ramillies... 1706.
Oudenarde... 1708.
Malplaquet... 1709.


The only things I have done to these are..


Tidy up a few chips...
Varnish the leather goods...
Re flag..
And rebase...


And they look lovely...

The Standards were made using the Robert hall plate (GB01) from the Pike and Shot Society plus some Photoshop magic.
https://www.pikeandshotsociety.org/


The bases were, as always... Warbases.
https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/


The miniatures are... Front Rank.
https://www.frontrank.com/product-category/18th-century/spanish-succession/wss-british-infantry/




All the best   Aly

A Gentlemans War... The Rules.

Another quickie...




A Gentleman's War  by Howard Whitehouse...Hurrah!


As you may know I have been having a few games of this while its been in development... and jolly good fun they have been...


Now I have the a copy of the shiny new book... and we all know how much I like shiny things...


So if you fancy an excellent light hearted medium to large scale skirmish game in the style of H G Wells why not give it a go...Oh! yes I get a mention and there are pictures of my toys... but I wont let that influence me..!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gentlemans-War-Glossy-Coats-Bayonets/dp/1945430931/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PHV8R9ROLINY&keywords=howard+whitehouse&qid=1555274654&s=gateway&sprefix=howrd+whitehouse%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1


Ok... Back to painting...


All the best   Aly

Shiny Napoleonics... The Rifles.

Things have been a little slow on the painting front...
Work, Social life and more social life have been getting in the way... I know boo! hoo! poor me...


So here is something I painted earlier...


The Rifles...

First up The 95th Rifles (The Prince Consort's Own)...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort%27s_Own)

And now The 60th The Kings Royal Rifle Corps....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps

This was another of my early colour tests...


I think that they might be a bit on the dark side... but I can live with that... In fact I have grow rather fond of it....


For the green I used...
Citadel... Caliban Green Spray with a wash of Athonian Camoshade plus a little black...


I have painted these as detachments rather than whole battalions as I believe that is how they were deployed.


The bases were as always from Warbases...
https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/


All the best   Aly