Shiny Napoleonics… The Russo-German Legion.

Greetings…

Something shiny…

The Russo-German Legion….

I’ve been wanting to do these guys since I saw Matthew’s superb unit over at The Hinton Spieler blog…

https://thehintonspieler.blogspot.com/2017/05/green-jarmins.html

After I had done some research and realised that there were numerous different examples of the uniform I decided that the best thing to do… Was to shamelessly copy Matthew.

The figures are…I believe… A mixture of Minifigs Intermediate Range Russians and Prussians…

They came to me with most of their plumes removed and painted as French…

A bit of reconstruction was required along with the addition of some cords and flounders on the shakos.

The standard is also a straight copy of Matthew’s

Thank you for all your hard work old chap 😁.

The Tunics are… Foundry… Forest Green 26B.

The Facings are… Citadel… Mephiston Red.

The Trousers are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Greatcoats are… Foundry… Slate Grey 32B.

The Musket and Packs are… Citadel… Mournfang Brown.

The Knapsacks are.. Foundry… Moss Light 29C.

These fellows took a lot longer to finish than I thought they would but they have turned out rather well.

Next up… more 40mm and a possibility more shiny’s…

All the best.  Aly

40mm Napoleonics… 1st Paris Municipal Guard

Greetings…

Here are some more French for this project… The 1st Paris Municipal Guard.

First off… a group shot.

Some close ups…

Once again these chaps were a joy to paint…

I am pleased with how they have come out and they make for a nice unusual ‘French’ uniform.

The Tunics are… Foundry… Forest Green 26B.

The Trousers are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Officers Trousers are… Citadel… Doombull Brown.

The Facings are… Citadel… Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The Officers Blanket is…  Citadel… Mephiston Red.

The Packs and Muskets are… Citadel… Mournfang Brown.

The Water Bottles are… Foundry… Boneyard Shade 9A.

The Water Bottle Straps are… Citadel… Skrag Brown.

The Shako Covers are… Foundry… Moss Shade 29B.

As always everything was given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid and highlighted with the original shade plus some extra highlights and work on the lighter colours and faces.

The figures are Perry Miniatures…

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product-category/metal-ranges/40mm-ranges/peninsular/

The paints are Wargames Foundry and Citadel...

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

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

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

Something shiny next…

All the best.  Aly.

The Other Partizan 2022.

Greetings…

Last weekend Dave Andrews and I popped over to Newark for the Other Partizan.

It was as always a grand affair and we got the chance to meet up with many lovely friends.

I am… as you may notice… a bit late in posting about the show… a busy week at work and a ‘Cold’ did their best to knock me for six.

I was convinced I had caught Covid again but all of my tests came up negative…I am going to be positive about things and try and look on my ‘Cold’ as a step back into some sort of normality… you remember… back in the day when a sneeze or a sniffle didn’t get you heading for a swab test…

I have stopped sneezing enough to get some more 40mm Napoleonics painted… they will be appearing on the blog soon.

For the moment here are a few pictures from the show…

A nice cold looking table from Old Pikey’s… I particularly liked the roads.

A beautifully presented game from TooFatLardies…

Marlburian style excellence from Phil Olley and Steve Gill.

Pyrotechnics in Vietnam from the Old Guard.

This game from the 1/72 Wargames Facebook Group caught my eye… especially as I had just bought the Osprey book.

A large 15mm War of the Roses game from the Carnwell Wargames Club.

Chocim 1660… An unusual and interesting game from The League of Augsburg.

Dark Age shenanigans from the Shrewsbury Wargames Society.

A nice looking WW2 desert game from the Derby Wargames Society… 

A ‘vignette-tastic’ Siege of Candia game from the Boondock Sayntes…

It’s probably no surprise that this is where we found the winner of The Adrian Shepherd Award for Tabletop Vignettes.

We all agreed that this ‘Photo Journalist’ taking a shot of the Turkish fleet hit the spot… Well done indeed.

Did I buy anything?

Of course I did… It wouldn’t be a proper show if I didn’t come home with stuff…

More 15mm toys (I know I haven’t even started the others…but I really needed them) and some reading material.

I also let the butterfly loose…

I know… I just can’t help myself 

It will be well into next year before I will even think about putting paint to these… 

I call this planning for the future… 😂

All the best.  Aly

15mm… Carolingians… Test Pieces.

Greetings…

Hopefully you will remember me buying some 15mm ‘ Dark Age’ figures…

Well I have finished a couple of test figures…

For the Carolingians I have gone for reds… very ‘classic’ Roman…

And for the Lombards I have gone for blues…

Because the toys are quite small I wanted to create two very different paint schemes that can be easily identifiable on the tabletop…

These fellows were a joy to paint…the clean lines and clear detail made it a quick job…

I am not sure when I will start painting the armies… but I am looking forward to starting the project…

The figures are from Forged in Battle…

https://www.forgedinbattle.com/

I have some more 40mm on the go and there will be something shiny very soon…

All the best.  Aly.