After recent forays in bigger figures, I reckoned it was time to get back to 15mm.
First up were the final units for the Great Northern War Swedes. The bases have still to be finished and the flags added, but I'm happy to get to this point. At the top left is a finished unit I used for quick reference. The cavalry at the top right are the Life Guards in their pale blue uniform. The chaps at the front are the traditional Swedes in blue and yellow. I used Miniature Paints for the blue and yellow. Mid-blue for the coats and canary yellow for the facings. Nice and bright, and looks good across the table.
And after a long time, I'm getting back to the Seven Years War Austrians. I want to see if I can finish enough to do a decent scenario of Austria vs Prussia with these chaps.
Finally, some pictures from a recent Black Powder game at a friend's house. Napoleonic British vs French in the Peninsula. In 15mm.
A group of us have now got the Black Powder 2 rules. We've had some great games with BP1 and hopefully BP2 will be just as good.
I'll do a critique of BP2 later. I think the rules are still good, but I feel the physical production of BP2 is disappointing compared to BP1. BP2 has typos and bits that are bad to read. The layout has changed a bit and it seems to have been rushed. Disappointing when it could have been so much better.
More later …
Some photos on the Italians. I've not found a flag yet, so I may well just doctor a French flag and paint the blue bits green.
First the command. The senior officer holding the sword in both hands was a mini-conversion job. I liked that pose from when I did some Historex stuff a long time ago.
The skirmishers.
The fusiliers firing.
The fusiliers marching.
A closer picture of some fusiliers marching. Why is it I only spot a figure is skew-wiff on a base after I've taken the picture. The officer is now standing straight in the picture below.
And the grenadiers.
Sometimes I think I put too much flock on the bases, yet at other times it looks OK. The slightly curved sabot bases came from Warbases. The idea was to give the impression a line of troops without it being too precise.
More later …
Here are the finished figures.
First a couple of pictures from my outdoor varnish session last Saturday. It was a good dry day with minimal wind, everything worked out fine.
And having done these, the question is what to do with them. I'm going to move on to do French and British. I'll offer these Italians to chaps at the club and if there are no takers, then they can go to ebay.
I'll also try to take some better pictures of these. Maybe some close up.
When I'm painting my next batch of 28mm figures, I reckon I'll try to adopt a much simpler style of painting - almost toy soldier style with bright flat colours. But we'll see … more later.
