A little conversion into a more belligerent pose .

 

The Officers for mt French Infantry unit are the above figure , which as a Artillery Officer would be okay but to me he seems to be pointing which Cake/Patisserie he wants , So......

A much more aggressive attitude ! . I flattened a pin carefully drilled a hole in his hand and glued the pin into the hole - touched the paint up and 'voila'  ! a leader of men ! 

The first Prussian Infantry 'in the manner of Featherstone'

 

Well after a busy week of 'real life' I've manged to get the first Prussian Infantry Regiment done . It comprises of 18 infantrymen, drummer, standard bearer and 2 officers.

I also painted up the first Prussian Brigadier , again an Irregular Miniature .

Here he is inspecting the Regiment on parade.

Having found 'all correct' they march off to barracks , I've started painting up the French and am thinking about the next order to Irregular . I have sent an order to Tradition for some of their 'Willie' figures for the armies High Command. 

First Fruits of TDFTP.

 

Been a busy week in the garden but I've cracked on and got the first contingent of the Prussians done .

They are of course 28mm Irregular Miniatures , I managed to find a 'match pot' of the green I painted my base board and hills with and so painted their bases to match and have given everything a smart gloss varnish.

They are very easy to paint and I've painted them in brighter colours as the Prussian blue and grey is meant to be quite dark . Luckily the rifles are a bit 'vague' on the castings so they will do for anytime between 1860- 1900 .

And a sneak peak at their Gallic opposition with this test figure.  

Rain stops play ! and just as well .........

 

So we had planned to do some gardening - but it's raining hard and blowing a gale = so I've lit the fire and unpacked a special parcel that arrived this morning !

A parcel from Irregular Miniatures ! . The combination of the ease of painting , an O.S. look , cheapness (unit deals) and the superb mail order from Ian Kay sealed the deal . The building blocks,  French and Prussian Infantrymen .

Thank the Lord it's raining ! got these cleaned up and glued onto pennies . I'm going for 1860/70s Europe with a hint of Featherstone - minor Germanic states and Austro-Hungary to taste . Units of 20 figures with 2 Officers , so here we have my first two units ready for painting .

A couple of Brigadiers for my Franco-Prussian (?) forces . The only sad thing is I've run out of undercoat spray , so will have to undercoat them by hand I think. Thinking probably about 6 units per side plus Artillery and Cavalry. I wonder if it will keep raining this weekend ?............

The Donald Featherstone Tribute Project.

 

Over the last few years I have been quietly selling off my less used collections , mainly for the money which has been reinvested in my gaming hobby (usually Wofun 2D ) . One of the main prompts for selling a collection was the rules used for it and their playability/ complexity , I have come back to the simpler Old School types .

The copy of the above rules where kindly gifted to me by Ross of Battle Game of the Month a couple of years ago . My thoughts have turned to a new project to use them , the figures would have to be simple O.S type , cheapish , probably 25mm and easy to paint in an high gloss Old School manner.

I did something similar about ten years ago using Spencer Smith FPW , sadly I sold them on (for a good price) and perhaps I have always regretted it - but I needed the money at the time  (for a new computer I think ?) , so what I'm going to try and reproduce is something similar . Using Featherstone's Horse & Musket rules , 25/28mm figures , singularly based (busy collecting pennies) Old Schoolish paint job with a Toy Soldier high gloss finish . I will be investigating possibilities and reporting back .....

PS the above Spencer Smith range are no longer available in the UK and have to be bought from the USA which I expect  will be VERY expensive !