French mobile forge Napoleonic 82

Managed to get something finished.This is a mobile forge from Warfayre, I got this together with a supply wagon, an ammunition caisson and an ambulance for just under £13.00 plus postage which I think is really good value, especially as they're such good little models. I've added a bit of detail for this little vignette, adding the cross bar and the rope from the bellows and the other bar and controlling rope and handle at the other end, the bar is some floral bond and the rope is book binding cord. The blacksmith is the first of my ACW Perry figures, an artillery man ,to be repurposed for Napoleonics, with a headswap for a Spanish head sporting a bonnet de police. The driver,water butt and crates are all from the 3d printed supply wagon I got from TaylorsfiguresGB on etsy , the mobile anvil was carved from a bit of Tamiya sprue, wedged into a piece cut off from a 1/35 telegraph pole, the hammer started out as a 17th century warhammer but here it has been turned to a more pacific use. the tongs started out as a musket rest! 

Going from these references and the one on the Perry site, we get this.

I've got the smith having a chat with the driver while working the bellows with his tools on the tarped crates.

I had a lot of fun playing around with this vignette and it makes a nice supply, base or objective option I think? The summer of scenery seems to be going on for a long time!

More Napoleonics terrain and dark ages figures still to come, I might get bored and do something else!

All the best 

Iain 

Landwehr sample figures Napoleonic 81

 Not much from me recently, painting has been rather disrupted as my sister and brother in law have moved in , so I have to be sociable in the evenings and weekends, which means not painting! They retired to Loire in France twenty years ago and in Jacks case even got French citizenship but they've decided to be closer to family and buy a retirement flat in Hertford, so they've sold up in France and are over here finding a flat which is nice. So not much of a post , more an amuse buche ,as I think I could do with maybe four more Landwehr units, money is tight after the rather excessive spending earlier in the year so I have been looking through my bits box and having a bit of a think and I've come up with these two chaps. 

They're home cast Prince August late Roman bodies with Perry plastic heads and Victrix backpacks and arms, they don't sell this mould anymore for some reason. In the last photo they're next to a stand of Perry metal and plastic wargames Atlantic Grenzers, I think they'll do, what do you think?

They're ( loosely) based on these chaps, with thigh length jacket and black equipment,  I've got various caps ( and heads) from the American War of Independence , the war of three Kingdoms and the American Civil war that will give me a bit of variety  and stop them being too uniform as they're a militia unit. 

The price is definitely right so I'm aiming to cast up about 100 to give me my four units,  the metal is either recycled from cleaning up figures or some lead weights for fishing          ( which are of course now illegal to use) and my mains water supply pipe which I have replaced with plastic but have retained the lead to cast toy soldiers from, for some reason that seems old school? 

Anyway  two more Napoleonics for the total, so 406 this year, as I've said before,  we aim for adequate and sometimes achieve it! 

All the best 

Iain