Seven Year’s War Russian’s

Test figures are completed for my 3rd Cuirassier’s Regiment after a lot of research into uniforms for the period!

Turn’s out the light blue coat that is often depicted was a parade uniform as opposed to the chamois service uniform that I have painted.

A blue cloak was reportedly worn in winter and was rolled up and secured behind the riders saddle.

Everything else is as historically accurate as I could determine.

Still in need of a matt varnish and suitable basing for the period…likely fields of trodden flowers scattered with lace embroidered gloves, dandy hat’s and corpses!

Lovely figures to paint!

     

Regimental standard (Light blue field) and the Leib standard (white field) which was carried by the 1st squadron of the regiment.

Maurice WIP

I’m very excited for Maurice! It reads as an excellent rule system (hopefully playing the same) and the period is full of flavour with all those fancily dressed gentlemen lining up at civilised hours to kill each other!

I have chosen Eureka’s Seven Years War figures at 18mm mainly owing to the fact that they are such wonderful sculpts.

Still yet to finalise the makeup of my 100 point Russian army but I have settled on a mix of Corps of Observation figures in winter uniform’s backed by Cuirassiers similarly dressed and supported by mounted Cossack’s and Kalmuk’s.

Here’s a small sample of the quality of these figures with the Cuirassier command group and a General figure which I will be utilising on a small diorama base as my CiC.

Rivers & Streams

Using the same techniques learnt from my marshes I tried my hand at a board spanning river.
I ended up cutting it into five sections to reduce warping of the 3mm MDF before finishing with water effects.
Initially meant for 15mm-20mm figures it still serves as a nice little stream for 28mm as seen here with my FiW Indians.

Marsh Terrain

Putting the finishing touches on a set of marshes suitable for 15mm – 20mm gaming.

It was my first time using Woodland Scenics water effects and I learned a few lessons the hard way, fortunately I was able to fix the mistakes and ended up with a decent finished product.

Next up is a few streams and rivers using the same techniques and usable for Muskets and Tomahawks along with WWII gaming.

 

More Muskets and Tomahawks Indians!

Five down…plenty more to go!
Might try a few canoes tonight to break it up a bit.

6th British Airborne

I fussed around with colour schemes finally settling on this for my 15mm 6th British Airborne. Test figure complete with Bren gun.

I think it looks fairly representative of the denison smock as seen here.

My aim now is to get a little production line going to get them all completed.

I currently have all the beret’s and the jump trousers finished but the smocks will slow me down.

Single based 15mm figures are so much easier to paint than my usual method for Flames of War where I base all the figures first then paint them.

Battlegroup Overlord

Added my 15mm BGO project to the WIP section so as to not clutter up the front page with unfinished junk https://shanehugh.wordpress.com/wip/
Going to be learning this with Nick shortly and pretty excited about it after reading both the rulebook and the Normandy supplement.
Long term aim is to run Battlegroup in 20mm but need to build up my collection as Eureka release the AB Figures range.

Muskets and Tomahawks

I’m finally getting my 28mm Indian warband painted!

By Fire and Sword

What better way to start the new year than a brief look at the English version of what is in my opinion the nicest looking rulebook on the market!
Others have reviewed the system, albeit the Polish version, but translation and just as importantly interpretation seem to have been handled extremely well.
This book is close to 400 pages of polished (and Polish!) material covering all aspects of the hobby from painting your army to core rules, advanced rules, army lists and an extensive history lesson covering this very colourful period.
From reading the rules one gets the feeling that the tactical flexibility the phase based IGOUGO system adopts combined with the orders mechanic will provide an extremely rewarding gaming experience.
The game also offers great scope in scalability catering for smaller skirmish style battles right through to the great army level.
Its been a while coming but between this and Sam Mustafa’s Maurice I have finally been dragged out of WWII battles and I can’t wait to start playing both!