This will likely be the last of
the Germans for a while. These, along with the three regiments of Bavarians,
should be all I need for the Vimy game in April. There were a few other
battalions thrown into the line from the corps reserve on the day, but I figure
I can use recycled casualties from the front line battalions to represent the
late arriving reinforcements.
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
263rd Reserve Infantry Regiment
– this unit, as with most of the Germans, is made up of my own figures that I
modeled, made moulds of, and cast myself. They’re not particularly pretty, but
they are all mine.
3 Machine-gun teams from Irregular Miniatures.
The 79th Reserve Infantry
Division including the 261st, 262nd, and 263rd Reserve infantry Regiments.
The division is made up of three regiments (
The battalions are smaller than the Canadian battalions - 10 compared to 15. This was largely a time-saving necessity, but also I figured the German battalions would have been whittled down by the "Week of Suffering" - a week-long campaign of constant harassing artillery and machine-gun barrages. The Canadian battalions, by comparison would have all be brought up to - or beyond - their established strengths with fresh drafts of reinforcements in the days before the attack (my great-uncle Bertram was one of those!), I may, ultimately, cut down the number of Canadians I end up using. With 15 figures per battalion it might get a bit crowded. Also as the Canadians have four divisions of three brigades with FOUR battalions of FIFTEEN figures each... the Canadian figures would outnumber the Germans four to one!!
I will hopefully get a few play-tests in later in March and try out different strengths for the Canadian Battalions.
The division is made up of three regiments (
The battalions are smaller than the Canadian battalions - 10 compared to 15. This was largely a time-saving necessity, but also I figured the German battalions would have been whittled down by the "Week of Suffering" - a week-long campaign of constant harassing artillery and machine-gun barrages. The Canadian battalions, by comparison would have all be brought up to - or beyond - their established strengths with fresh drafts of reinforcements in the days before the attack (my great-uncle Bertram was one of those!), I may, ultimately, cut down the number of Canadians I end up using. With 15 figures per battalion it might get a bit crowded. Also as the Canadians have four divisions of three brigades with FOUR battalions of FIFTEEN figures each... the Canadian figures would outnumber the Germans four to one!!
I will hopefully get a few play-tests in later in March and try out different strengths for the Canadian Battalions.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Canadians! Conveniently the rest of the Canadians I ordered
from Irregular
Miniatures arrived just this afternoon – so I should be getting those
based up pronto and hopefully have a good chunk of the final Brigade of
Canadians done by the end of the week!
Good work! It must be especially rewarding to make figures from the raw materials and bring them forth onto the table. The Irregular guns and crew look very good. I have never seen an Irregular figure in person. Perhaps, I should give them a try?
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan.
DeleteIrregular Miniatures are inexpensive. That's about all I can say about them. The machine-gun teams are less that half the cost of any others on the market. The level of detail is on par with my own homemade castings (though perhaps slightly less chunky), which is to say, they aren't very nice looking upon close inspection. Given a decent paint job and based up nicely and presented en masse... no one will notice such things.... So they don't look terribly out of place among my collection.
Tim's given an entirely accurate depiction of Irregular Miniatures. They are cheap cheap and you wonder why you wasted money buying that crap. But if you persist and paint them up, they look pretty decent.
DeleteI have 900 (literally) Irregular Zulus plus opposing British to paint up. Maybe that is my next project. Although I do have a huge stash of Microarmour I should have a go at.
Your Germans look great en masse, which I guess is the way you envisaged them?
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
That is the only way they look good. Upon close inspection they're nothing to write home about!
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