The return of the 54s , Trouble in West Toieland.

So after a bit of a hiaitus I'm busy wargaming a small battle between the forces of the 'Red Army'  and the invading 'Blue Army' Here we see the small hamlet of West Toieland , there has been a report of a small force of 'Blue' troops in the area and General Pendergrass has set off with a force to investigate. 'Red' army on the road to the right ' 'Blue' army on the left table edge.

'Red' army has a cameo apperance of a Boy Scout to help .

'Blue Army has a Staff Officer to help them.

The 'Red' Army move down the road to West Toieland. The force is a unit of the 'Chasseurs D'Patio' and 3 companies of the 'East Point Cadets'

The 'Blue' Army force - a unit of Brandenberg Hussars , a gun and crew and Company of Jaegers here in open order. A battle report is to follow .....

 

First fruit .

 

Things have been progressing slowly as 'real life' and other things have interupted my painting , but I have got my first unit of Lancastrian Men at Arms done , some in the livery of Henery Percy , Earl of Northumberland . These painted up quickly as they are mainly armoured which only took some washes and highlighting to get most of the figures done .

I have also glued up and undercoated a unit of Longbowmen which will be next up to paint , hopefuly in the coming week.

An eBay find, more F.A.N.Y.

 

I don't buy many 54mm figure from eBay nowadays - I think I have enough (!?) and prices are steadily rising and when I saw the above group starting bid of £10 I thought I would bid for it but not get into a biding war . They are of course members of the F.AN.Y. (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) To my surprise nobody else seemed interested and I was the only bid for them ! . Rather pleased with my purchase - and a bit smug ! 

I remembered I already have one of the castings -.: F.A.N.Y. (tonystoysoldiers.blogspot.com) with added plastic horse .

Toy Soldiers in Art No. 7

Found on a Facebook group (?) Don't think he's going to miss at that range and I think his sister (?) maybe a casualty as well being in the range of the 'cannister cone' . French I think and maybe paper/cardboard soldiers ? the parrot looks intrigued by the proceedings ! (click on photo to enlarge)

 

Stuff arrives !

So things are getting real ! , my order from the Perrys arrived this morning , that's very quick service indeed ! 

And I got a free figure as well , Henry Tudor at Bosworth I think, as he's brandishing a crown . Now all I have to do is start gluing things together - a task I find enjoyable as it takes me back to my youth gluing model aircraft kits 

The separate Men at Arms sprue arrived yesterday and I've got them glued up and undercoated ready for painting , so things are progressing !

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Oh No !, not ANOTHER project !

 It's all well and good me doing these various 'Wofun 2D projects' - BUT it doesn't involve me having anything to paint ! and painting figures is such a large proportion of my hobby. To this end I started casting about for some figures to paint , now I have unpainted figures in the 'corner of shame' under the wargaming table - but  none I wanted to paint ! - this is starting to sound like I'm making excuses and building up a case for buying more Toy Soldiers !. *

Whatever project it was to be had to have limits and a set of rules that I like to play with them .I've always liked the idea of the Wars of the Roses - or The Cousin's War as it was called at the time - but the battles are a bit boring, one side runs at the other - one side runs away and is slaughtered - there might be more to it than that - but you know what I mean. Then I saw an article about using 'Lion Rampant' for the WOTRS , the advantage of 'Lion Rampant' is the games are short, fun AND you don't need many figures ! plus it has about 12 interesting scenarios..

An obvious choice for figures would be the Perry Miniatures plastics, in the rule book it suggests a force of 1 unit of Men at Arms (6 figures) , 2 units of Bowmen (24 figures) and 1 unit of Billmen (12 figures) - very doable ! - So I ordered 2 boxes of the above - interestingly they where cheapest straight from the Perrys. 

To add some variety to the forces I also ordered their box of Mercenaries , which will allow to to add / mix and match some Crossbowmen , Handgunners and Pikemen . 

I sat back rather pleased with myself - then I realised -I was short on armoured Men at Arms - the Bills and Bows box only has 4 each - BLAST ! I needed 12 ! - however I looked on eBay and managed to pick up one of their armoured Men at Arms sprue so saving the day . So I'm looking forward to starting this project, I aim to keep the core units small and add on Mercenaries to get some variety . - watch this space !

* it is !

Toy Soldiers in Art No.6

 

Mrs K laying the artillery on target,  pinched from 'A Gentlemen's War ' on Facebook