NAPOLEONICS 4

My latest order for a friend Eric are a large number of French and British/Allies for Waterloo..
I have done the French first and am now working through the Brits....
Below are a few pictures of the French line & light with skirmishers....they are a mixture of Warlord games and Perrys plastics..with a few metal commands added in.

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1/32 Noth Africa game 1 (Bolt action) UPDATE....

This evening managed to get a few rounds in on the Bolt Action game in the desert...
Both forces advanced on the village as quickly as possible and the Germans lost a halftrack straight away with a great shot from the Sherman but had a jeep blown to pieces by a Panzer II...all troops disembarked from their transports as battle commenced but casualties were minimal...

Next the Germans took the initiative and moved into cover in the village but the command team who were a little out on a limb to casualties...the Panzers attacked the Sherman with little success and the 8th army infantry though under heavy fire, found cover...

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1/32 WW2 North Africa game 1 (Bolt Action)

Couldn't resist play this game as have had the figures for some time and a few vehicles..but with enough now finished ,went for a Bolt Action encounter...
The scenario is that the Afrika Korps have left fuel and supplies in an abandoned village and both sides are hurrying to get them..
The Germans have sent a column of two Panzer II with halftrack supports and two squads of men......and the British have sent a Sherman with an M5 and jeep carried support...
I will add furthur posts as the game progresses as I only get about an hour at a time to do my game...lol

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54mm NAPOLEONIC GAME 1 (Black Powder)

Would you believe that my new next door neighbour is a young lad who loves wargaming...so in the best traditions we partook of a quick game of black powder...NAPs style..his French came on in the same old way and I defeated them in the same old way...lol

I think Ian was a big warhammer player before as he was happy to just charge up the table but after a few losses he got the idea.

I do enjoy getting the old traditional figures out for an airing ...I have bin challenged again..it was his first black powder game and unfortunately poor old Ney took a drumming again with the Guard.

The figures are all from my "retro" seventies Airfix and Timpo collection...with Britains buildings and brillo pad bushes...only the best...lol

Some ECW stuff

Bin working on an order for some English Civil War stuff and they were specific uniforms...and units.
Firstly here are the King himself and some commanders including Prince Rupert , Lord Hopton and William Waller.

Next we have Prince Ruperts Lifeguards of horse and some Northern horse....lovely to paint these figures, as they needed variants of off whites as well as buff.

Finally four groups of musketeers, two of which are in red and grey and then one in maroon and blue and one in blue and yellow...I have placed all the figures behind a good wall for the piccies as Iam not actually basing them.

Al in all a nice little set and lovely figures to paint.

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WAR OF ROSES 54s

A friend of a friend contacted me a short while ago asking if I could paint some of his new range of WOR figures...and that they were in 54mm...not having painted medievals in this size I said I would give it a go.

He told me that his figures were for wargaming so I have gone for a definite wargames effect ...hope you like.
The first figures are of archers and have been done in the livery of Richard III.

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WW2 TANKS FOR THE 1st CORPS BROTHERS

Was recently asked by my great mates Mick & Simon of 1st Corps to do them some Allied and German tanks to go with there own WW2 stuff.
First were a number of panzer 3 & 4 s and some stugs along with a couple of trucks and control vehicles...

They also asked me to give some a few foliage coverings for the bocage areas of the Normandy campaigns.

Next came the allies and I painted a large number of Shermans with 3 Churchills and a Centaur....all done in 7th Armoured markings...a very enjoyable time, and cant wait to see them on a game...

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NAPOLEONIC 3

Here is the final part of a Napoleonic commission. First we have the beautiful Saxon Lieb Cuirasseurs... these figures were different to paint and I have to say the metal was quite brittle , two of the horses arrived with legs missing so I added 1st Corps horses for the officers.

This final unit are French Napoleonic Chasseurs a cheval and are quite old figures from Elite Miniatures...

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