ALYS TOY SOLDIERS: Crimean War

I decided while I was on a high after the rather positive Great Late Roman Rebasing project to get some more work done on my Crimean War collection… I shall keep chipping away at this in the background until it gets too painful or just boring 😁.

This time we have a couple of Russian Naval Battalions…

These originally started as a single unit of Armed Sailors but I decided to add more figures to represent additional Marksmen/Marines and bring them up to two Battalions.

I am very pleased how the mix of different uniform styles and colours has come out.

The Standards are from North Star…

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=175&sub=231&page=1

And the bases are as always Warbases…

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

All the best Aly.

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

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

Sunday, 22 August 2021

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

Tuesday, 10 August 2021

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…