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Offline Lt. Hazel

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After painting so much Germans, what I really enjoyed, it´s time for a change. As promised I painted up some 40mm Perry Peninsular stuff. A Lippe-Detmold Officer checking his watch and a guerillero. They will appear on the TACTICA in 2013 where I will run a participation game with my mate Björn, the author of my favourite ruleset "Triumph &Tragedy". That´s really cool because back in 2009 I ran my first game at TACTICA with him, SCW using his own rules. There are some more Frenchies and Guerrilleros to paint, so stay tuned.


A picture from last LPL showing french Voltigeurs
« Last Edit: 12 February 2013, 06:43:05 AM by Lt. Hazel »

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #1 on: 28 July 2012, 11:07:46 PM »
Don't often comment on things outside Gods own scale but these are gorgeous  :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #2 on: 29 July 2012, 12:23:22 AM »
Lovely work Jan, please keep them coming.

Cheers,

Helen
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Helen
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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #3 on: 29 July 2012, 11:11:05 AM »
They really look nice. Can't wait for the Tactica... :D

The volitigeures look good too, but I can't see much on the pic (too small). Can you add a bigger one?

Thanx,
DV

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #4 on: 29 July 2012, 11:31:34 AM »
Nice... I am usually not a big fan of highlighting black with greys, but here it really pops! :-*

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #5 on: 29 July 2012, 01:36:40 PM »
Beautiful work Jan.

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #6 on: 29 July 2012, 02:58:02 PM »
Thank you for posting my favorite period i.e. the Peninsula War. You have managed to get a terrific amount of character into these figures, the Spaniard in particular looks as if he has spent a lot of time in the field, one question - the guerrilla seems to be wearing a white cockade I wondered why as the Spanish colour was red ? Please d,ont take this as any type of critisism but a genuine inquiry. Having said this I realise the Spanish at this time used anything at hand as their supply system was almost non existent.

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #7 on: 29 July 2012, 04:00:06 PM »
I was to Lazy for doi g much research, but I think you are right. I will fix that, thanks for the Hint. Doc Morris said the Same. Especially when they wear a Lot of rag tag clOthing some identical items for a rudimentary uniform make sense, so I will paint all sashes and cockades red on the spanish.

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.
« Reply #8 on: 29 July 2012, 04:30:30 PM »
Great stuff. ;D
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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #9 on: 29 July 2012, 04:51:03 PM »
Already seen in the LPL but better pics now, the first Voltigeurs:





The mounted Colonel:



And some spirituell guidence for my spaniards:


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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #10 on: 29 July 2012, 05:45:38 PM »
Great painting.
They are wonderful.
Semper Fi, Mac

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #11 on: 29 July 2012, 06:20:31 PM »
Very nice!

If you use "Triumph &Tragedy" for your game, I'd be interested any changes and special rules for Napoleonics.

Chuck

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #12 on: 29 July 2012, 07:00:08 PM »
Excellent work there. My own hand is not so good I could try 40mm, but these have a gritty character perfect for skirmish games.

I second the comment re the T&T amends.

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #13 on: 29 July 2012, 08:26:21 PM »
Driscoles is responsable for the rules, so I´ll be as surprised as you will be  ;)
Don Voss called me today and asked for a comparism shot with some 28mm figs.
Here we got a large 28mm Copplestone, 40 mm Perry and a medium 28 mm Tsuba

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Re: Somewhere in Spain, 1809 a.d.(Update 29.07.: Voltigeurs)
« Reply #14 on: 29 July 2012, 08:52:07 PM »
Wow!

Those are brilliant!

Love the Monk.

 

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