Crimean War… Another rebased unit.

 Greetings…

Here is the latest of my rebased Crimean War units…

This time it is the French Guard Voltigeurs.

Another pleasing unit I think…

The epaulettes and shako pom-poms certainly add a nice bit of colour.

These were painted by the very talented Phil Robinson.

The Miniatures are of course by Great War Miniatures and Standards are from North Star Military Figures…

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=175&page=1

And the bases are as always Warbases…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/

I think it’s going to be slow and steady with these…the next units in line are a couple of battalions of Russian sailors…

All the best    Aly

Crimean War… Rebasing.

 Greetings…

Things are a bit slow on the painting front at the moment…

Mostly because I have been painting some Shiny Napoleonics French Hussars…

There is so much (As my mother used to say) Falldaroy and La-De-Da on these uniforms it takes forever…

So… here are a couple of photos of some of my rebased Crimean War collection…

First up… French Guard Grenadiers…

Next up some Russian Infantry 

A little encouragement goes a long way.

I honestly can’t say that this has been fun… there are a few more finished units… mostly Russian, so they all look pretty much the same…

When I can clear some space on my table I will take some shots of them all together…

The Miniatures are of course by Great War Miniatures and Standards are from North Star Military Figures…

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=175&page=1

And the bases are as always Warbases…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/

So… back to the Hussars…

All the best.  Aly

Shiny American Civil War… The first Union unit…

Greetings…

So as the title says here is the first of my Union units for this project…

I have painted them as a standard Regular Infantry Regiment..

I have after some consideration decided not to use any of the figures Dave Andrews gave me for this project…I will however hang on to them as one never knows how the wind may change…

I am going to use Jacklex Miniatures as much as I can… Their relatively simple design and full on retro feel is something that I really like…

As to the composition of the armies I am using the Action In The Plattville Valley scenario from Donald Featherstone’s War Games as a guide…

Six infantry,two cavalry and one cannon a side… it’s a good start and allows me to have a reasonable collection to build on and game with…

Of course these numbers are as always a guide and not a rule…

So… here it is…

I am indeed very pleased with these…

One off the things that took some time was my indecision about what to do about flags… In the end I went for the old Flags for the Lads range that I picked up many years ago and over painted the somewhat ‘pixilated’ images …

I know… Why take the easy option?…

The Tunics are… Citadel… Kantor Blue plus some Caledor  Sky.

The Trousers are… Citadel… Hoeth Blue.

The Snap Sacks are… Foundry… Charcoal Black Light 34C.

The Guns are… Citadel… Mournfang Brown.

The Water Bottles are… Citadel… Russ Grey.

The White bits are… Citadel Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Blanket Rolls are… Citadel Administratum Grey.

The Leather Good and Backpack are Black.

As always everything was given a coat of Aly’s Brown Liquid and highlighted with the original colours.

The figures are from Jacklex…

http://www.jacklexminiatures.com/american-civil-war

The bases are as always from Warbases…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/

The paints are Wargames Foundry and Citadel...

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling

This feels like a nice start to this project and I look forward to adding more as time goes by…

All the best   Aly

Crimean War… New toys.

 Greetings…

I decided to treat myself and have some toys painted for me…

As I have been steadily reorganising and rebasing my Crimean War collection I thought I would get young Mark Hargreaves at Over Open Sights to paint the Heavy Brigade.

He agreed with me that this would be a jolly jape…

The Heavy Brigade and the Light Brigade are both a bit problematic when it comes to fitting them to my basing principles for this projects….

I have been using my now fairly usual system of 1 stand for a tiny unit,2 stands for a small,3 for a medium and 4 for a large… 

Even though there really isn’t quite enough men to justify it, I have decided to make the Heavies a four stand unit… It’s more about what looks good rather than what is totally accurate… I will probably do the same for the Lights.

The problem is trying to fit five different regiments into a twelve man unit…It doesn’t divide well.

Fortunately most of the brigade look very similar so we went for…

The Scots Greys… for the command.

The Inniskilling’s… nice yellow facings.

The 1st Dragoons… blue facings.

And the 5th Dragoon Guards… dark green facings.

Here they are in all their glory…

I must say I am extremely pleased with these… Mark has done a splendid job with them…

There are some additional photos on the Open Over Sights Blog…

http://over-open-sights.blogspot.com/

There are some details of their famous charge here…

https://victorianweb.org/history/crimea/paget/heavy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava

The miniatures are by Great War Miniatures…

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=175&page=1

The bases are from War Bases…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/

All the best   Aly