Novelty items, pound shop buys and key rings artillery wars of three Kingdoms 21

 So these are the first of the odds and sodds featured previously as a work in progress, four medium guns, sakers, three purchased second hand, two purporting to be Napoleonic but I  don't think so ,I'm pretty sure they're all hinchcliffe. The ECW  crew that came with them were true 25mm so no use to me, I sent them off to Robbie of Independent wargaming  blog. The other gun is made from an extended barrel from the £1.50 battle masters kit that supplied some recruits to a number of great Italian wars gendarmes units, the infantry are slowly being absorbed into a Swiss keil. Anyway the rest of the gun is balsa, cardboard and a pair of resin wheels, good enough for gaming and I'm happy with the result.  The crew are mostly Old Glory except for one Essex crew who together with their gun are the last of the Essex army I bought off ebay a while ago, alright two house moves and when I bought them my daughter was in primary school, she's got one year left at university, so time flies, blink and you miss it! He's the commander in blue of the red gun.

It's pretty obvious which one is the scratch build but overall I'm happy enough.

Three more keyrings/light guns and four heavy guns to go!

All the best 

Iain 

French line infantry regiment no 47 Napoleonic 36

 Final Perry plastic French line infantry regiment of this batch, still lot's more to go, which is good as I find them strangely relaxing (!) This time it's regiment no 47 with the last if the Victrix flags, I'll have to move onto something else for the rest!

The eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed I've press ganged a spare Warlord figure in amongst his Perry  chums he was free with wargames illustrated, the rest of his sprue are spread around various other battalions. 

Working on some Victrix infantry and of course progress continues with my 17th century artillery 

All the best 

Iain 

French line infantry regiment no 70 Napoleonic post 35

 Here is another Perry plastic French line infantry regiment no 70, nice to put together and paint, they've been in use half painted so it's nice to finish them off!

Once more with a Victrix flag, still painting more Napoleonics and war of three Kingdoms artillery which apart from the dragoons will see me mostly complete that project for now, I have two regiments of dragoons but I have two more regiments worth in the lead pile so I feel I should finish them, I just don't have any urgency! There is of course a Montrose army, safety locked away but the thought of tartan seems to keep it bottom of the pile! There's also lot's of primed Napoleonics however I have started prepping some Italian wars light cavalry in an effort to complete another project, I  know, I know ,not really finished but most options done for say four armies simultaneously, I mean surely I don't need any more?!

All the best 

Iain

French line infantry regiment 27 Napoleonic 34

 Here is the first of three French line regiments, Perry plastic with a Victrix flag in the 1807-1814 uniform , you can stop reading now Stew if you want!

Nice figures to paint,I like that you get a larger command element,although they've taken a while as I got them up to good enough and used them as that for a while.

And for Norm, 80mm base for my Napoleon command base.

Next up? Probably the other Napoleonic French infantry regiments but there's some war of three Kingdoms artillery coming up on the outside and they're liable to have a game before the Napoleonics so let's see, not much of a cliffhanger but you work with what you've got!

All the best

 Iain 

French command Napoleonic 33

 I've finally finished a French command base that were used in the game at Christmas .

I say  a, I suppose I  should say the, Napoleon, Mameluke and a chasseurs a cheval of the Guard. Napoleon and Mameluke are Perry as is the Chasseur but his horse is Foundry, I swapped out the chap who originally sat on it so that he could be the trumpeter with his regiment, I think his replacement works well. 

Pretty happy with this lot, mostly painted in the wee small hours of a December night/morning to get to a basic standard but I've finished them off now so here we have the Emperor or the Corsican ogre, take your pick!

Lit up by a nice French light I got when I was over there.

Next up ? Probably something Napoleonic but I'm going to need some of those 17th century guns soon so I should get my finger out and move at least some of those along but don't hold your breath!

All the best 

Iain 

Pike and shot battle and artillery progress War of three Kingdoms 21

 After Salute , I sorted out a War of three Kingdoms/ ECW game of Pike and Shot back at my shed, Des and my nieces husband Dan played the game, we dug out One hour wargames for a scenario and they picked one of the scenarios I'd already played! Neither of them had played it and it was good to host and get this collection of figures on the table again. Des was defending the town with the bridge while Dan was at the ford, that  Des was unaware of to start and had to keep his troops 12" or less near the town, Des had Covenanters while Dan had Royalists. It was the scenario with whoever was in control of the hill at the end of turn eight would be the winner. 

Dan managed to move some of his troops across the ford but Des was quicker to occupy the strategic hill, there was a lot of movement and assault and it went down to the last turn but Des managed to hang on and win, rounded off a good day!

You can still see the Salute stamp on Des's hand! He had lots of ridiculous luck which he put down to the tray he'd purchased that day

I'm still working away on my contemporary artillery and although I don't usually do work in progress I thought I'd tag my artillery on before priming, pretty happy just have to drill out a couple of barrels but definitely getting there, not bad for second hand, novelty items, pound shop purchases and key rings!

Des gave me the gabbions as he didn't need them anymore, I thought they might be useful to signify heavy artillery in siege games but otherwise I will just use them as normal.

Next up ? I might finish off some more Napoleonics unless these and their crews crash the painting queue!

All the best 

Iain