Barons' War Additions (2)

 

More Barons' War goodies. All but one from the Wargames Atlantic range.

Pair of mounted Knights

A knight and his associated bannerman. All the livery, shields and standards are painted in plausible but not specific heraldry. Both of these wear plain surcoats without livery.

Pair of mounted Knights

Five foot Knights

Five foot Knights, the heraldic animals are VVV decals that are added as part of the base-coat and then highlighted with the other colours.

Five foot Knights

Squires and Serjeants

The two foot Serjeants are from Wargames Atlantic, burdened squire is from 1st Corps, the shield was done in the colours of Guillaume II des Barres.

Squires and Serjeants

Barons' War additions

 

Those following me on the socials will know that I've been quite taken with the Barons' War range from Wargames Atlantic.

We have been playing a lot of games set in the Second Barons' War using the Midgard rules.

I've now got over 400 figures painted, but do keep adding "just one more box" to the collection.

Pair of mounted Knights

Unless painting a specific noble, the livery is not based on any specific Knight, I just try to use plausible designs in accordance with the emerging rules of heraldry in the 13th century.

Pair of mounted Knights

Six foot Knights

Shields and banners are hand painted, although in some instances, like the swan, a VVV decal is added as part of the basecoat and is then highlighted.

Six foot Knights

Pair of mounted Serjeants

The crossbowman arms on the serjeant on the left are from the Foot Serjeants set, the Wargames Atlantic sets are really good for mixing and matching.

Pair of mounted Serjeants

Trio of peasants

Again arms from the Foot Serjeants set were used to make these militia crossbowmen.

Trio of peasants

Civilian

I think this last figure was a Partizan Show give away, but I may be mistaken.

The many spare shields that come in the Wargames Atlantic sets area great for making stamina markers for our Midgard Games. 

Civilian

This is my first post in over a year, must try harder!

Colonel Claude Runciman and Josefina Lacosta

I was suffering with "the Lurgy" this week but had a quick change from 6mm to 28mm.

So I pulled out a couple of figures in the 28mm Napoleonic backlog that I think are perfect for the Lust and Gluttony circles of The Abyss for the Painting Challenge theme.

First up is Colonel Claude Runciman, Wagon-Master General, he is described as an obese, indolent man, who because of his post as wagon-master general, attempts to get Richard Sharpe to refer to him as "General."

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This figure was the show figure, I think from a couple of years ago that chum James picked up for me knowing I would be interested.

I think he fits the Gluttony quite well, chowing down on his chicken leg in this sculpt.

The second figure represents Josefina Lacosta, Sharpe coveted her, but is told he'll never be able to afford her, so that fits right in with Lust. 

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This is a Brigade Games figure.

I rather rushed this one and the flesh tones came out pretty terribly, so after posting on the AHPC I redid the skin tones and these are newer images than those on the AHPC blog.

I think many a lustful though was had when Katia Caballero played Josefina in Sharpe's Eagle and then especially when Elizabeth Hurley played her in Sharpe's Enemy back in the early 90's

A couple of themes well fitted.

Prussian reinforcements (5)

 

I woke up with the lurgy this weekend so the drive to paint with a cough and runny nose was somewhat curtailed, but the Prussian Production Line rolled on to the end*

The last two battalions of infantry, the first one representing a unit of Grenadiers.

All the figures in the post are from Baccus6mm while the bases are all a custom order from Warbases. I had magnet holes in the bases so that the small figures get no additional lift.

The second unit a battalion of reservists.

There were enough Landwehr skirmishers for another four bases, I did a couple of bases in blue coats with light blue facings and a couple in grey coats with red facing.

There were enough six pounders and an howitzer to complete a fifth battery of artillery.

The last few troops are another four artillery limbers.

*This represents the last few Prussians in the backlog, there are a few Landwehr infantry that could be used to add to Brigade command stands but I don't have any commanders to mount with them.

Coming soon, the start of the French to oppose them.

Prussian reinforcements (4)

 

The Prussian Production Line slowed a little this week as we had a cracking game of GDA, starting on  on Friday evening and playing through Saturday:

So, not quite as much painted as earlier weeks but more stuff was done, some of it featured in the game.

Firstly a battalion of Prussian Landwehr.

And another battalion of Prussian Landwehr.

This is the last of the Landwehr figures in the backlog and brings me up to eight battalions of these in the collection now.

The Baccus cavalry comes in packs of 45 and I make two 18-man units out of a pack, leaving quite a few figures left over.

There were enough Uhlans left over to add another single base to the 1st Uhlans, and enough Landwehr cavalry to add a double base to the Westphalians I featured in my last post.

These extra bases will allow me to field both of these as large units in our GdA games.

There were a lot more cavalry commanders left over, so I made a couple of Brigade command stands, one of Dragoons and one of Uhlans.

I needed a few more brigade commanders for the game, so painted up the last few mounted generals I had and made up the numbers on the bases with a few Reservists that did not fit in the unit structures I had. 

The rest of the cavalry figures were mounted individually to represent Aide de Camp that you never seem to have enough of when playing GdA.

Finally I had a few spare reservists, so I made a couple of stands of them guarding piles of cannon balls to use to denote objective markers. Not sure why cannon balls need to be guarded, I don't think they are goings anywhere.....

The backlog in the Prussian Production Line is quite depleted now and I reckon there are likely only one or two mores posts before I switch over to something else.