10mm Seven Years War Russian
Just a very quick update, only one unit of Russian Cuirassiers, Prince Fedorovich.Again the standard Russian Cuirassier uniform.
Seven Years War
10mm Seven Years War
I have not painted 10mm Seven Years War for ages but a few packs fell in to my hands out of my 'lucky dip box' (I bag my figures for my ongoing projects into units and put them all into a big plastic tub and blind pic what to paint). It just so happens that I got three bags in a row this time around.The whole batch. In front are 5 Russian Generals. The Novotroiskiy Cuirassier, now all Russian cuirassiers in this period look the same. Buff coats, red saddle cloths and black cuirass. The only thing that marks the regiments apart are the colours of their standards, this regiments colour is green.The 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Observation Corps Grenadiers. the Observation Corps wore standard infantry uniform except for their boots, they had been issued with black dragoon boots, the dragoons where being reorganised at the start of the war. All figures are from Pendraken, my only (very small) moan, more of a exhale is the cast on flags and this is only because I am no
More Jocks.
I have just finished basing up my first cavalry for the Seven Years War project, naturally they were British and just as night follows day they are Scots.The figures are Wargames Foundry, I went for these because Front Rank don't do an officer in a mitre nor a standard bearer, unless my eyes are worse than I think they are. The horses are a decent fit against FR but the figures are a bit chunkier, although I don't think this will be too noticeable in the fog of war. As nice are FR are I do admit to liking the dashing poses of these troopers, which leaves me with the difficult choice of do I get more?These figures represent as best as possible the 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons (Scots Greys), I say this because no one could possibly make a SYW range with all the little nuances of uniform and equipment which abound in this period, especially for the cavalry. The main colours of the regiment are there as are the grenadier caps, also the flag is authentic, other pieces I fitted in as I could, for instance the
Arnhem '44
Club night and Bolt Action, a very dreich night too, cold and miserable but we can't complain it has been an excellent year weather wise. Rob brought his Para's and an Arnhem scenario, a British blocking force is attempting to slow down a German push against the main Para position, at first the Germans only have infantry, as the game progresses the German forces begin to build up with armour arriving.Rob was the Para's with Simon and I having the Germans between us, we had to capture the roads leading off the table, there were three, two houses dominated the central area and the Para's had claimed these and were happy to sit in them, a couple of other squads held the extreme flanks. It looked like we could overwhelm one flank and then attack the houses, Simon sent his halftracks racing up the road into the British position, the first was hit by a PIAT and burst into flames as the passengers disembarked to hug the ground. I was a little more cautious and approached through a large cornfield.Simon races up the
Seven Years War Black Powder Game
Whilst at home I managed to play a large game of Seven Years War in 10mm at PAW.The field was occupied by a Prussian Army confronted by a combined Russian and Austrian force.We used the new edition of Black Powder, BP2.The table was 8 foot by 4 foot and the armies numbered over 50 battalions, with over 1000 foot figures. Then of course we had the cavalry.The long view, AustroRussian on the left and Prussian on the rightMass Russian cavalry on the right wingLine and lines of red coated RussiansThe Austrians on the leftPrussian left wing cavalryPrussian centerPrussian right cavalryAustrians and Prussians clash in the centerOverview of the centerRussians on the hillAustrians and Prussians clash over the hedgesThe game came to an end too soon, so a marginal victory for the AustroRussians but it was a great game to play.BP2, with army list additions from Olicanlad (check out his great blog http://olicanalad.blogspot.com/)I love playing large games, to me this is what wargaming is all about....hence my aim of
Doing a Viv Nicholson
The legendary Anderson Wargame Fortune turned a corner recently so I found I have some spare shekels for wargaming stuff again so took a leave out of Mrs Nicholson's book (for non British readers or readers under a certain age Google will help). As you know I got several Charlie Foxtrot buildings for Bolt Action along with a small Norman church from Dark Ops (still waiting for this).Adding to this I replenished some of my paints, about half a dozen colours and got my friend Julian to pop into GW and get me Balor Brown, I am still on the lookout for something which matches the old Snakebite Leather. If he is at the club on Tuesday night I will pick it up, fingers crossed. I also jumped the gun and got some gravestones off Ebay for the upcoming churchyard, they arrived very quickly but were huge, they would have suited 54mm figures not 28mm. My own fault really as I did not look at the side pics, only the main one which did not give an idea of the size of the pieces. I have therefore ordered more headston
A Game-Seven Years War with Black Powder
Whilst home from work I managed to get a game in, yes an unusual occurrence but a very enjoyable one.Having never been used my 10mm Seven Years Austrians, me and Russians, Clive needed to see the light of day. I did not quite have enough Russians so they were ably assisted by the Reichesarmee, although they were treated as Russians. No army lists were used, we just made up brigades with what I had and put them on the table.I'm sorry about the quality of the pictures I took them on my IPad. Austrian right wing, a brigade of hussars and cuirassier with an infantry brigade advancing to the front.The Austrian line, four brigades of cavalry and four of infantry.The Russian left flank, a large brigade of Cossacks, who proved to be quite useless so may need to adjust their stats. Inside them are a brigade of hussars and a brigade of cuirassier. Unfortunately for Clive he never managed to get the hussars and cuirassier into combat. A closer look at the Austrian right wing, hussars and cuirassi
Ho Hum
Not a lot happening at the moment, I had to miss the club last week although I am struggling to think about that, was it last Tuesday or the one before? No matter, I am going tomorrow, Julian was undecided what to do so I have asked for a shot at Sharp Practice 2, he has some lovely buildings and troops, as have some of the other members. Mate Matt plays it so it can't be all bad, I have therefore decided against my normal instincts when it comes to a 'Lardy' Game to give it a go, I played once before when it turned up at the club for the first time.I have completed my third British battalion for my Seven Years War project, I have to have some Scots in the army so it is the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Foot Guards (Scots). The photos are dark which surprises me as I took the photos next to my large study window and it was sunny, I also shone a light over them, still dark. You therefore have to look for the dark blue facings, the sleeves usually have two lines of white lace but the cuffs were so small on these advancing
Seven Years War Russian
I am putting new life into an old project, but very slowly lolThese are 3 8pdr Unicorn guns for the Russian armies of the Seven Years War. I am re-looking at my SYW collection and beginning to arrange armies on actual Orbats. I'n not sure w...
The Fringe of the Seven Years War.
In keeping with my new project last night's club game was a skirmish from the French and Indian War which kicked off the Seven Years War or World War Zero as some historians are wont to call the conflicts. I know it involved battles from Canada to Indi...
35th Regiment of Foot
I know, it's over 6 months until it's released... but I'm already preparing for Rebels and Patriots! If you haven't heard (and can't be bothered to follow the link, Rebels and Patriots is another in the Osprey Wargame series by Dan Mercy and ...
Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) Museum - Seven Years War
There was a large section on the Seven Years War. I didn't photo everything just the bits that caught my eye. I liked the diorama of the Battle of Minden. It was set at a height that you could look down the musket barrels at the charging cavalry.Battle...
Seven Years War Russians
The next batch of Russians have been completed, 5 regiments of foot, 2 of horse and 2 Cossack groups. As always Pendraken figures....just great!5 infantry regiments, 1 Observation Corps and 1 GrenadiersLight guns and limbersKievskiy CuirassierMak...
10mm Seven Year Wars
The final bits of my Austrians, the Senior Officers. The Mounted Army command for the Austrians Lovely little sculpts from Pendraken.The real beginning of my Russians. I started with 3 Hussar Regiments, they certainly are a colourful bu...
Regiments Permskiy and Rostovskiy (SYW Russians)
In my cabinet I have one lonely regiment of Russians for my long stalled Seven Years project and decided they needed some desperate reinforcements and so decided to paint up a couple regiments to bolster their ranks in the form of Permskiy(...