Finished Unit - 88

Battlefront 88 AA guns – let’s see how cool that Russian air support looks now!

Battlefront

What I’m Working on Now…

Combined Grenadiers to represent commanded shot in Beneath the Lily Banners.

All figures are Warfare.

Finished Unit – Pak 40

Again from the Open Fire box set. Grey undercoat for these followed by equipment highlight and a black wash. Guns Middlestone undercoat then a  black wash followed by a Middlestone highlight.

Finished Unit – STUG G Assault Guns

These are out of the Open Fire starter set. They’ve been undercoated in middle stone and then air brushed with reflective green and chocolate brown (Vallejo colours). The tracks etc are then highlighted and everything given a black wash to put in some definition. Not my best work but relatively quick from box to table (at my pace anyway).

Finished Unit – French Infantry 17th Line

I used to play a lot of Warhammer and for some reason I see the French in Napoleonic times as pretty much like the orcs (albeit not green and scaly) – you simply can’t have enough of them. This little lot are meant to represent the 1st Battalion of the 17th Line who were part of the 2nd Division of the 1st Corps at Waterloo.
All miniatures are a mixture of metal and plastic Perry, flag GMB.



These were completed using Army Painter – a combination of grey undercoat and the mid-tone shade. Not too sure it works with blue but reasonably pleased with the effect on great coats.

Wargames Illustrated Issue 308

Just received this through the post and was delighted to find an article about one of the wargames weekends I’d attended with the League of Augsburg in Derby. The article is entitled ‘A Pair of Kings’ and I’m even mentioned in passing (the clue is Huguenots!).
More information on these weekends can be found over at the League of Augsburg site.

More Huguenots!

Beneath the Lily Banners has rules for commanded shot, small units of single models which set out to disrupt the big battalions. Gamers beware - in the original rules they were a bit on the powerful side but in recent games this has been paired down (which is good as I used to find them annoying little bleepers).

This chap is supposed to represent Captain of Grenadiers de St Sauver from La Meloniere’s battalion. He was sent with some 200 men as part of reinforcements for Sligo in October 1689. They got into a bit of a barney with some Jacobites...