From My Side of the Table… Shiny Napoleonics… The first Game.

Greetings…

While my old friend David was visiting over the Partizan Weekend we had game to christen my Shiny Napoleonic Collection/New Wargames Table/New Wargames Room…

We were joined by Alan Perry…

Alan and I commanded the beautiful French while David took command of the workmanlike Prussians/Hanoverians/British…

Believing the Allies to be outnumbered they went on the Defensive (It turns out that we were wrong about this, much to the frustration of the beautiful French)

The Allies were to defend the three villages across their half of the table and the beautiful French were to Attack/Capture them…

The beautiful French threw themselves at the Allies defences but after fighting until both sides were effectively broken as dictated by our rules … Black Powder…we actually decided to play beyond this as we were having so much fun. 😁

So we decided that we had fought ourselves to a very bloody draw…

Later in the weekend David and I decided to set up both sides and just charge at each other to see what happened… this was when we discovered that the Allies actually outnumbered the beautiful French by three battalions…

We were mystified… 

Clearly the French were so overwhelmingly beautiful that it looked liked there were far more of them 🤣.

So here are some pictures… Hopefully Blogger with put them in the correct order 🤞

The very beautiful French…

Every Shiny French figure I own was out on the table… All of them in danger of suffering’New figure syndrome’ 😳

The Allies in there defensive positions…

Once again… All the toys out on the table… Including The Glasgow Wellington.

As the Central Brigade ( Encouraged by Napoleon himself) makes a push for the centre… my Light Brigade attempts a flanking move on the right of the line.

Alan throws his troops at the village on the left flank of our line…

The French ( Very beautiful French) Cavalry mass in the centre…

As the Prussian Guard and the Russo- German Legion brace themselves my Hussars break out and chase the Prussian Fusiliers of their hill… Hurrah!

A Blunder…

I did a few of these 🙀

Fortunately this blunder sent me forwards…As the Centre Column pushed on supported by the Hussars.

Alan’s men break into the village and start clearing it of defenders…Hurrah! Hurrah!

The Glorious and Beautiful French push forward crashing into the Russo- German Legion…

Beautiful French Hussars… Looking beautiful 😁.

Workmanlike Prussians and… Well… I suppose I have to admit Hanoverians looking beautiful 😁

Napoleon eyes up Glasgow Wellington… Or maybe just his hat.

Wellingtons falls back as the Beautiful French push into the Allies flank…

Just one more look at the lovely Beautiful, Glorious French Hussars…😆

Although the Beautiful French Light troops have defeated this Allied flank and look to taking the village the rest of the army is in no fit state to carry on… The Allies are in the same state…

So a draw is declared…

What a fun game…

As I said we set everything up later and had a straight stand up fight… It was quick and dirty and David won… Those extra battalions made a difference.

Here are a few pictures… Chosen because they are pretty.

Time for some painting I think…

All the best.  Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… Command stand for the 5th Westphalian…

 Greetings…

I finally got round to finishing off the fourth (Command) stand for my 5th Westphalian Landwehr…

There is no official Standard for them but I liked the look of this one…

Okay… I suppose I should get on with that battle report 🤔

All the best.   Aly

More Testing Times…

Greetings…

Here are a couple more colour tests…

The first is of course the Hanoverian Light Infantry…

This has come out very nicely… There was always going to be a risk that it would be a bit dark but I don’t think it is…so hurrah!

The second lot of  are North Star 1672 figures…

I only have a few of these and when I came across them the Butterfly said “ put some paint on them “ so I did…

I painted them as a Danish Fyn Regiment Pikeman, a Swedish Dal Regiment Junior Officer and a Swedish Halland Regiment Musketeer…. All from the Scanian War.

I am rather pleased with the results…but I will not be adding any more at the moment as I have shiny little people to get on with…

All the best… Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… W.I.P.

Greetings…

As promised here is a W.I.P. Photo of my next Shiny Napoleonic unit…

They are (going to be) the Hanoverian Light Battalion Luneburg.

I was rather taken by this unit when I first saw it…Riflemen colouring but with the added interest of shoulder rolls and a Belgic shako.

The musician also has red shoulder rolls and shako cords.

The figures I have used are mostly Minifigs Intermediate BN1… British Infantryman Running.

It’s a rather nice active position…

Shoulder rolls and a few other repairs and adjustments were made with Green Stuff.

As can be seen… I could not get all of the original paint off the figures… What you see are the results of  one soaking in Dettol and two in Bleach… At this point I decided that life is too short and ended things there…

If I ever find out what the paint was/is I shall use it on the exterior of my house as I suspect it is Weatherproof/ Radiation-proof  and possibly Bulletproof …

These will be undercoated tonight…

There will no doubt be some more re - based Romans on their way as well.

All the best.  Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… Plastic Hedges and Walls.

Greetings…

While having a FaceTime conversation with my friend David O’Brien ( apparently a third of all wargamers are called Dave/David) I was bemoaning the fact that I couldn’t get hold of any Merit Plastic Hedges….

David immediately disappeared from view… And returned with a sizeable bag of Plastic Hedges.

“ You mean like these”

“Yes”

“I will get them in the post”

What a splendid generous fellow 😁.

The package arrived…And…Wow!

A positive Bocage of Hedges…And Walls.

Certainly more than enough for my needs 🙀

Here is the first ( test) batch that I painted.

I decided that I would mount them on MDF bases and paint them in the same way as I painted my Merit trees…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/09/shiny-napoleonics-merit-alder-trees.htmlALYS TOY SOLDIERS: Shiny Napoleonics… Merit Alder trees.

The finished hedges in situ…

I am really pleased with how they have turned out…I of course have a few more to paint… I may vary the shade slightly with each batch.

Thank you very much David.

All the best.  Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… Prussian Landwehr

Greetings …

Another slow time with the paint brushes…I’m still putting books back on shelves and I have the disruption of builders returning in the next week or so…

So here are a unit of Hinchliffe 5th Westphalian Landwehr…

In reality they were an under strength unit so only having three stands is fairly accurate… But I will probably get another six figures and bring it up to a four stand unit… They never carried a Standard but I may add one to the extra stand anyway.

For a change I have painted these in a “Wellington Man” style…

https://thehintonspieler.blogspot.com/p/how-i-paint.htmlThe Hinton Spieler.: How I Paint 'Em

This is not the first time I have done this…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2024/11/shiny-napoleonics-wellington-way.htmlALYS TOY SOLDIERS: Shiny Napoleonics… The Wellington Way.

Although unlike Matthew I will be using acrylic paints rather than enamels…

As I have said these were painted in the “Wellington Man” style… So Base Coat, Wash, Dry Brush and Black lining out…

Here are the basic colours that I used…

Coat and Hat… Citadel… Kantor Blue with a Citadel Drakenhof Blue wash then given a Kantor Blue Dry Brush.

Trousers… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh with a Brown Liquid Wash then a Pallid Wych Flesh Dry Brush.

Facings… Citadel… Warboss Green.

Belts… Citadel… Corax White then pure White Highlights.

Napsack and Backpack… Foundry… Moss Light 29c with a Brown Liquid Wash and then Moss Light Highlights.

Black lining was added between the colours and some additional lighter Edge Highlights were added.

The different style made for a refreshing change to my normal process and was a lot of fun.

Although I don’t know how Matthew manages to paint whole armies… I definitely don’t have the patience 😁

All the best   Aly