Bringing out the BIG guns!!

 So this post shows some of my work as I trundle along the wargaming path in my mission to paint the random "When the hell did I buy that/them/whole army!!??" projects that I find in long unopened boxes and draws. Two of these boxes contained some Perry's British 9lb artillery pieces and crew, some British casualties and two random Perry plastic sprues of U.S infantry '44-45 containing enough parts to make a 0.30cal machine team and extra crew.

So first up is the artillery. Both are 9lb cannons, one with a firing crew and one loading. They are in the later uniform and due to this are going to be forced in to double duty in my Peninsular force (1811) as well as my Waterloo force (1815). I can't see myself paying another £20 just for a few crew figures for the 1811 period.

Next up I have a few figures I hope don't see the table too often!

Finally we have the remaining 0.30cal machine gun to round out my "Chain of Command" platoon

So that finishes this post and finally finishes some projects. Both my "Sharp Practice" and "Chain of Command" forces are both now finished and ready to game with (though the thought of any project being 100% complete is, in reality, not possible is it?).

This weeks painting is taking the form of some dark ages figures I have re-found and some fantasy chaos warriors that I think I bought on eBay with "Dragon Rampant" in mind. I think all these figures can be amalgamated into one force and do double duty in several rules sets. Added to all this I found some oil paints in the garage, this has led to me messing about with oil washes, so hopefully on my next post we'll see those results.

British Peninsular Force for Sharp Practice

 Finally, FINALLY! After what seems far too long I have completed my British Napoleonic troops. Hopefully when we get back to the club I can get to grips with the Too Fat Lardies "Sharp Practice II" rules set and possibly run through one or two campaigns whilst I'm at it.

The force represents elements of the 31st Huntingdonshire "Young Buffs" regiment and consists of -

5 Line infantry stands of 8 men,

1 Light infantry stand of 6 men,

1 Light Dragoon Stand of 8 cavalry men,

1 level 3 commander,

1 level 2 commander,

2 level 1 commanders,

and 

1 additional attachment of 6 Rifles.

Now for the pictures,

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR BROWSER!! club shutdown mode engaged!!

So after last weeks club meeting and discussions about the corona-virus, we have decided to temporarily suspend our Monday night club meetings. That means no more pushing figures around tables, measuring what we think an 1/8th of an inch looks like, disputing what a 60 degree angle actually is and whether or not a tree line equals an orchid or a wood? This now means we all have a 5 hour shaped hole in our Monday night and Netflix can only cover so much of that (honestly we could quite easily fill it with TV alone I think, but....). Luckily our hobby allows us to have two hobbies in one, first we have the social wargaming side at the club and secondly we have the painting and crafting side of the hobby. Due to this we will be turning the blog over to a painting blog to show what we've been up to and what we're planning for when we can get back to throwing dice, telling shit jokes and arguing.

So I'll get the ball rolling with some work for my British Peninsular wars force for playing "Sharp Practice". I don't think you can go wrong with Perry Miniatures, especially their plastic box sets. 50 pence a figure is unbelievably good value and then you factor in how nice they look, I can only see me using them for 90% of the force I think.

So this fine fellow is a sergeant from the 31st Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot (Also known as the "Young Buffs") and in game term he equates to a Level 1 Big Man. I think he has a look of the Richard Sharpe about him and so I will inevitably place him in precarious situation with little chance of success and see him killed over and over and over again. It turns out soldiers in my armies don't see much battle field success, but make quite nice looking casualties.

Thanks for looking,

AlexK