Great War Lowland Scots

More random bits of painting….

While these are Great War era figures, I’d kind of been imagining them as Army of the Scottish Republic for the 1938 Civil War…

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These chaps are from Renegade Miniatures. I’ve ordered a second pack to finish off the unit…

I have to get a regular wargame night set up in the new year…

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A game report of some HOTT/DBA action.

I just poured the second half of the moulds for some new figures (mostly War of 1812) – should be casting them by tomorrow night and painting them Tuesday!! Huzzah!!

1812 Masters Update

Coming along very nicely…

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well as nicely as can be expected from a lunk like me… (judge them not too harshly until you see them cast, painted up and marshaled on the table in the hundreds!)

anyway… hopefully at least the British infantryman will be done shortly, as will a couple of the generic militia. If the stars are right I should hopefully start mould-making this weekend and start casting up a storm next week – Huzzah!

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More of this master/mouldmaking and casting buisiness…

1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots) – Finished!

Well… Sort of…

For DBA-X I’m organizing my battalions into three stands, and so for that purpose this unit is complete. As with the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Regiment) I painted earlier this year, I plan to do another two half stands so these could potentially be fielded as a 32 figure unit in Black Powder (just ordered the additional Center Company Marching figures from Renegade Miniatures last week – curse them and their 5 for 4 sale…). Anyway…

These are the 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots). They had been stationed in the West Indies from 1801-1812 and at the outbreak of the War with the United States of America were sent to Quebec. They later saw action at Sackett's Harbor, the capture of Fort Niagara, Longwoods, Chippawa, Lundy's Lane, Fort Erie and Cook's Mills. Part of my Long Range Plan is to do Chippawa and/or Lundy’s Lane in 2014 for the bicentenary… These guys may not see much action for a while.

(I suppose if anyone were to show up with some French opponents that need a flogging I could pretend they were the Third Battalion – which fought at Quatre Bras and Waterloo)

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1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots). The miniatures are from Renegade Miniatures.

I know I said I'd wait until the Analogue Hobbies 2nd Annual Winter Painting Challenge was one... but... I'd finished one stand and once you get going on something it's hard to stop... and if you do... it's sometimes hard to get it going again. It's not like I have a shortage of historical miniatures to paint over the next three months...

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The next Redcoats you likely see here will be of some of my own sculpts for the War of 1812 – they’re coming along nicely – but probably a week or two off…

The workbench is more or less cleared off… I’m feeling like getting some sculpting done.

Sci-Fi Guy

Just some random guy that happen to end up on the workbench (I'm not even sure how he ended up there...1?), that I finished up last night for giggles…

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I think it might have been a Kryomek figure…?

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Royal Scots… in just a moment…

Tommies

Finished up a few 1914 British last night…

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These figures are from Renegade Miniatures. They’ve got their 5 for 4 sale on now and I’ve gone and ordered a few more things (Great War and Napoleonics)… mostly to finished up a few units (like this one)…

Oh and North Star Figures was selling some ready made Clash of Empires armies (using Crusader Miniatures figures) for HALF PRICE… so… um… I bought a few… I know nothing about Clash of Empries, but looking at what was in them they kind of worked out to be just enough for a DBA army (plus a few spare for skimish gamin’)… and did I mention that it was half price!? Half the already discounted price – because as an army it’s less than buying the packs, right? Well that’s what I’m telling myself anyway – I couldn’t NOT buy them!?

Don’t get me started about the Maelstrom Games sale… (more Great War miniatures on the way...)

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I also got cracking on the rest of Royal Scots… hopefully see them finished this week some time.

I also need to finish up the 1812 infantry

Battle of Queenston Heights

(a little more prattling about plans for next year…)

As I’ve alluded to in previous posts I’m planning on doing some sort of big game of the Battle of Queenston Heights for the bicentenary on October 13th next year. It’s a long way off, but I’ll have a lot of painting and terrain making to do so it’s good to start planning these things well in advance (the trick is not to plan them TOO far in advance so that you lose interest or forget what the hell you were trying to do in the first place…).

I’m still doing a bit of reading

I’m using the scenario from Bruce McFarlane’s excellent Red Rocket’s Glare as a starting point and currently planning to use DBA-Hx to play it. The scenario may be altered (though it seems pretty straightforward) and the rules may change based on playtesting (when I get to that); There’s Black Powder and Ever Victorious Armies… but it’s a start.

In the RRG scenario it gives Orders of Battle for two different levels of play. I’m currently working with the idea of one company (from the “small units scale”) being one stand in DBA-X. So the orders of battle would look something like this:

British

49th Foot - 1 company/stand
49th Foot Light Infantry (Rifles) - 1 company/stand
41st Foot - 3 companies/stands
Lincoln Militia - 5 companies/stands
York Volunteers Militia – 2 companies/stands
Mohawk Indians - 1 company/stand
Heavy Fild Guns - 1 battery/stand
Light Field Gun - 1 battery/stand

Americans

13th US Regulars - 3 companies/stands
6th US Regulars - 3 companies/stands
28th US Regulars - 3 companies/stands
16th New York Militia - 3 companies/stands
20th New York Militia - 3 companies/stands
17th New York Militia - 3 companies/stands
18th New York Militia - 3 companies/stands
Pennsylvania Militia - 3 companies/stands

For regulars I was planning on mounting 8/base and 6/base for militia so I will need:

British Regulars – 40
British/Canadian Militia – 42
US Regulars – 72
US Militia – 90

I’ve started modeling some figures to cast my own infantry. Since that first post I’ve made a mould of the doll, cast half a dozen and started working on some variants.

The Indians I already have (from the Seven Years War project that fizzled – but will one day be revived!!) and I recently painted some Napoleonic Royal Artillery that could stand in for the guns if I didn’t find something else.

War of 1812 Infantry Sculpt Update

Last week…? Maybe…? The days they are just flying by... It seems like it was forever ago, but it was probably last week (maybe it was two weeks...?) that I make a mould of the 1812 infantry doll and I’ve been working on a few new masters of regulars and militiamen. Here they are:

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The chap in the middle is a British Regular (from the 41st or 49th Regiment of Foot). The other fellow with the beginnings of a stovepipe shako (on the far right) is going to be a US Regular infantryman. The rest of them are going to be militia. I’m probably going to do a few more militiamen as well (different jackets).

They’re a bit crude… but when there’s 220 of them all painted up pretty-like on a table full of beautiful terrain… no one will even notice…

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Maybe some Elves… or maybe I’ll just go ahead and finish up the 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots), I mean it’s not like I have any shortage of other historical stuff to paint for the 2nd Annual Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge… I had just figured I should get a few fantasy things out of the way because I’ll be focusing on historicals for three months… but there isn’t that much fantasy stuff I really NEED to get done right away… so…