Napoleonic Rifles

Hi all,

Following a little challenge on the Black Powder page on Facebook, I was able to get some more British Rifles painted up. From one box of figures, I've got enough to field 5 small rifle armed skirmish units for BP now, which is nice! :-D

Figures are Revell 1:72 plastics

Sorry for the awful photos....

Thanks for looking

Prussian Napoleonic Officers

Well, two posts in two days, I must be a role! :-D

Another of my ongoing, very long term projects, is Napoleonics. I picked up a box of the Hat 1:72 Napoleonic Officers not too long back, which contains an incredible 12 mounted Officers for about £6. Ok, slight exageration there. You get 4 Officers, with 3 poses of each, but as the arms come seperate on some of them, there is opportunity for slight variation.

Anyway, I made a start on them, and here are the Prussian Officers (Spanish and Russian to follow at some point, but who knows when, with the way I operate! lol)

The ones that are based I intend to keep for myself, the others can be bought here: AUCTIONS

Thanks again for looking

Austrian Napoleonics

I picked up a box of the Strelets 1:72 Allied Staff recently, and have had the opportunity to paint up the Austrian figures from it. This is a great set of figures, with 35 sculpts representing various characters from the Napoleonic era. The Austrian figures are: Emperor Francis, Archduke Charles, Karl Philipp Prince of Schwarzenberg, A General, 2 Senior Officers, an Office, an ADC, and 2 Infantry Officers.

 

 

 

I also finished up one of the British Officers as well:

 

IF you are interested in the Austrians, they can be purchased here: Ebay Auction


Thanks again for looking :-)

Flintloque!

A buddy of mine, Chris, over at Chris's Gaming Journal, recently decided we were going to get into gaming Flintloque. I have had a love for these miniatures since I was about 16/17, but unfortunately have never had the opportunity to start collecting them (for one reason or another) But when Chris suggested it, well, how could I refuse???

So, a couple of bids went in for a some auctions on eBay, and an order was submitted to Alternative Armies after a few emails with Gavin Syme, who was most helpful. The service from AA was impressive.

As soon as the figures arrived, I was hooked, and wanted more, and I hadn't even started painting them yet!!! The figures have real character, and a certain charm about them. I couldn't wait to get cracking.

I've always been more of a collector, than a gamer, and I can certainly see my collection growing at an exponential rate with these. Even if I do have approximately 2500 1:72 plastic figures to paint! lol

So, I thought I would share my initial paint jobs with you (my photography skills aren't the best, and the iPhone really is poor for photgraphing miniatures. My phone contract is ending soon, so hopefully I'll be able to pick up a phone with a really good camera!)

We have, a Joccian Highland rat, an Orc of the 45th, a Chasseur of the Garde, some Rifleorcs, and a few Rifleorc characters: Major Dunknowit, Captain Murkie, and Captain Fredorcson (based on the characters from the Sharpe books, Major Dunnett, Cpt Murray, and Cpt Frederickson

This should be the first of many Flintloque posts, so I hopefully I will see you soon! :-D

Ebay Auctions!

Hi all,

Just a little bit of self promotion. I have some ebay auctions ending this weekend, so please pop along and take a look

AUCTIONS

Thanks for looking! :-)

A Few Odds and Ends

Hi all!

I've had a couple of days off work and have been doing some test figures for different periods, and also finishing off my first unit of French Foreign Legion. Useful for any number of game systems I guess: Black Powder, The Sword and the Flame to name a few!

First up, a British Napoleonic Officer (figure is from Waterloo 1815, 1:72 scale):

Next up, some Colonial British. I've been experimenting with some spare figures I had lying around, painted, from left to right, British Infantry in Indian Khaki, Private soldier and Officer in grey serge in the Sudan, and a Private Soldier from the North West Frontier (I personally love the Khaki jacket with blue trousers!) [all figures are from Esci, 1:72 scale]

And individual close ups:

I also picked up some figures from Victoria Miniatures as a start for a VSF/GW Praetorian project. This is Captain Kaine:

And for the group that I am really pleased with, the French Foreign Legion (Esci figures, 1:72 scale)

Thanks for looking.