New cavalry units

I have been busy with the holidays and work lately but I did find time to paint a couple new units of French cavalry - Royal Carabiniers.  I painted up only two of the 5 brigades to start with as I didn't want to overload the French with elite cavalry.  I also had the Nugent/Fitzjames unit painted up by Javikos Studios in Spain who can be commissioned through Ioannis.  All flags are done by The Flag Dude.

If anyone wants me to take the pictures in a different way please let me know and I'll try to accomodate you.  And these 3 new units didn't help the French at the convention game one bit.  The French cav got crushed.

Siege of Augusta convention

Here are a few pics of this very nice convention held just about a week ago.

The people who ran the con were really open to us putting on a big game.  We put all of our figures on the table which was around 2,500 28mm figures.

New WSS Project Unit

I've decided to take a bit of a rest from painting the good guy (i.e. French & their allies) so I've started a Danish infantry unit.  I'll be painting 1 battalion of the Prince Georg regiment.  What you'll see next are a few pics of how I'm progressing with the unit.  I've got the coat, facings, hair, and muskets painted along with some parts you can't see with these photos.  One thing I am struggling with is what the device on the grenadier's caps should be.  Sapherson doesn't really give me a good idea and these Robert Hall prints do not show a grenadier cap.  I purchased the battalion pack from Front Rank so the grenadiers are included.  From my readings it seems as though the Grenadier Corp was created early on in the 18th century and the infantry regiments eventually replaced the grenadiers they lost to that Corp.  Nonetheless I'm still trying to determine the cap info along with which flag is correct.  Sapherson describes a very different flag from what the Hall print shows.  I'm inclined to go with what Hall has as I've heard this information is very well researched.  I've posted my question for this on the League of Augsburg site and people who know a lot more than me are tracking things down so hopefully I'll know soon.

You'll notice in the background a unit of SYW Minden Austrian infantry I plan on painting next.  This particular unit I plan on selling and I'll post pictures of it once I have it ready - hopefully in late November or early December.  I never said I was a fast painter!

As always thank you for stopping by.  Comments and suggestions are welcome.

October 16th Game Day pics

I went off and totally forgot my camera so we have Dave Cooper to thank for these photos.  I'll try and narrate what you are looking at.  This is a continuation from our game two months ago.

This is on the French right where the two brigades were able to push off the Imperial and Dutch contingent.  One of the brigades had 2 battalions of the Picardie regiment which helped when the Dutch side had 2 battalions of their Guard.  So this side for the French did great. 

Here on the French left we have a totally different story.  One brigade of French and 1 brigade of Bavarians could not stop 1 brigade of Imperials and 1 brigade of Brits.  The French brigade (yours truly in command) pretty much vaporized in front of the Imperials while the Bavarians, although giving a good account of themselves to the Brits, felt that discretion was the better part of valor and eventually retreated back in somewhat good order.

Now on the cavalry action.  This will be a bit hard to describe so I'll put the pics out with just a few comments.

The Good Guys!

The Good Guys taking it too the Bad Guys (at least for a short time anyway)

A different angle of the same combat.

The Evil Bad Guys moving up more units

One of the Good Guys getting a send off celebration from a Bad Guy unit (at least it wasn't from the backside)

The Evil Bad Guy commander of their cavalry!  Actually he's very nice young man and a great gamer.

That's all for now.  I'm sure some of you will ask about what rule set we're using.  This is a home grown set loosely based on Fire and Fury but it has a very nice period feel to it.

We're having a 15mm WWII 1939 game in November and this time I'll try to remember to bring the camera!

Thanks for stopping by.

Le Roi unit now ready and new command bases too

I finished up the 'new' unit I was working on and thought I'd post some pics of it before we game on the 16th.  The bases are finished up, name plate is on the back, flags & finials are done so it is ready to go.

Next, I've been working on making some command bases.  My idea is to have a 3 figured base for each player to represent themselves on the table.  Each command base will have it's own colored flag with whatever devices are appropriate for that nation or side in the game to have.  I'm working on the French first and I've got a couple done.  But what I want to do after I've made up enough of these is to have our brigade command bases done up in a similar but smaller setting.  On those I would put just 2 figures, a mounted commander and either mounted standard bearer or foot.  Either would work for infantry and cavalry or I could have the two mounted be for cav only.  The flag with the brigade command base will match the color of the larger command base but obviously the brigade flag will be smaller to better match up with the smaller base.  I thought it would be an interesting way to show the brigade commanders under their overall general and of course there are more flags on the tabletop which is always nice.  So without any further jabbering on my side - here are the pics so far.

I cannot take credit for painting the kettledrummers on either base.  The first one you see was done by Big Battalions (Thailand) and the second was done via the painting service available through Ioannis in Spain.  Both are beautifully done and I hope some day to be able to paint that well.  The flags were all done by The Flag Dude.  I created the images, just a blank field and I put the fleur-de-lis on it, and then he then made up the flag in the color I wanted.  I've got the brigade flags for the white and blue but I've still yet to paint up the figures for them.

As always comments and suggestions are welcome.  Thank you for stopping by and looking.

Cologne Foot Guard for the WSS

I thought I had posted some pics of this unit here but I guess I didn't.  So here they are.  Someone on TMP asked about the uniform of this unit so I gave them the information and linked them to my blog.  Here are a couple of pics.  I'll try to take more if you would like.  Just let me know.

You may notice that the Colonel's color is upside down!  Yes, I did that all by myself.  I do plan on replacing it as soon as I can.