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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: AKULA on March 13, 2025, 08:33:24 PM
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Just a small thread to keep track of some of the bits I'm adding to my AWI project
Today's offering is a humble ammunition cart (a metal Perry creation) painted by myself as a way to hopefully reignite my painting mojo.
(https://i.imgur.com/kn7JALZ.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JT7YXAU.jpeg)
Progress will undoubtedly be slow...
:)
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Well i did say progress would be slow... lol
Finished another perry cart today
(https://i.imgur.com/EA8Sfm6.jpeg)
..and a photo with the ammunition cart
(https://i.imgur.com/riKHIpb.jpeg)
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So now you have a supply train.
All you need are some escort soldiers and then some others to ambush it. :D
Will follow with interest. :)
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Very nice, indeed!
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Nicely done sir! I have both of these under about a kg of other AWI metal waiting to surface, really need to get back out to GHQ and do some work.
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So now you have a supply train.
All you need are some escort soldiers and then some others to ambush it. :D
Will follow with interest. :)
To be fair, i've got A LOT of soldiers :D. ...both to escort and to ambush the supply train, but most weren't painted by me, so i haven't posted them on here yet. Currently rebasing and reflagging forces for both sides, plus filling in some gaps in my collection. If LAF'ers would like to see them, i will of course post up some pictures ;)
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Please do!! :-*
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Its always a pleasure to see your projects so another vote for pictures. :)
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Please do!! :-*
Its always a pleasure to see your projects so another vote for pictures. :)
ok, i'll sort out some photos of the rebased troops... in the meantime here are a few more that i've actually managed to finish painting myself.
Just filling in a few gaps in my collection for various orbat permutations...
First up a few foundry light infantry painted from scratch to match some existing ones as I flesh out a brigade of elites. Have a couple of formed units, but wanted some more skirmishing bases.
Quite like the long dried grass...something for the skirmishers to pop out from behind... :D
(https://i.imgur.com/rEdfPUo.jpeg)
and a few perry dragoons... no use for my main goal of fighting Brandywine, but i had some spare figures lying around ...these had been (well) painted by someone many moons ago, but sadly by the time they came into my possession they were battered and chipped to pieces, so i thought i'd give them some TLC...
(https://i.imgur.com/8hOQqzp.jpeg)
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Looking very nice. :-*
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Thanks mate.
As requested, here are some photos of the rebasing/reflagging progress (as mentioned at the outset, the vast majority of these figures were painted by those with far more talent (& patience) than me).
Figures are mainly Foundry & Perry metals, plus a few units of Perry plastics.
(https://i.imgur.com/tDbdAoU.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QWQGmUF.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GYOxwvR.jpeg)
Lots more Brits to rebase... and then onto the Continentals :)
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That is quite a collection. :-* :-* :-*
Keep em coming. :)
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That is quite a collection. :-* :-* :-*
Keep em coming. :)
If you insist :D
I managed to rebase a couple more units...both needed some TLC as i'd picked these up secondhand.
Queens Rangers Hussars & 16th Light Dragoons
(https://i.imgur.com/ziWLvNA.jpeg)
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Sweet!
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That all looks good. And you're right - plenty of troops to act as umbushers and/or ambushees.
Any Indians, per chance?
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A handsome collection Matt :-*
You never do things by half do you? 8)
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Looking great!!
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Lovely. :-*
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Thanks everyone :D
That all looks good. And you're right - plenty of troops to act as umbushers and/or ambushees.
Any Indians, per chance?
Funnily enough, no indians so far... but on the list... just because
A handsome collection Matt :-*
You never do things by half do you? 8)
Thanks mate... honestly, this is just the rebased/repainted/reflagged bunch... the "todo" queue is about three to four times this size (as a minimum) when you take the Continentals into account as well ... still plenty more Brits needed, and the Hessians to sort, plus a scary number of Colonials.
Again, the vast majority have been painted for me by others, or collections that i've picked up that fit with my end goal... some of the latter need a bit of TLC, but i always find it easier to work on figures that someone has already started, if that makes sense? It also frees me of the shackles of having to churn out everything... i can spend a weekend building wagons or camp followers without thinking that i should really be prepping another battalion of redcoats.
My goal is to be able to refight Brandywine in time for the 250th anniversary, but i also want lots of other "shiny" extras as i'd love to have a whole "what-if" campaign.
Much more to follow :)
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A few more retouched & rebased troops for the King's forces... this time a cloud (?) ... or screen (?)... of skirmishers
(https://i.imgur.com/nCN3ag4.jpeg)
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Finished painting another model from scratch today...this time a Perry's British Supply wagon
(https://i.imgur.com/iuWVD9V.jpeg)
And a couple of group shots... enjoying painting these
(https://i.imgur.com/0c5B474.jpeg)
Going to write some simple campaign rules, and protecting supplies will be a feature...plus I like the idea of wagons clogging up the roads :D
(https://i.imgur.com/iD9leAu.jpeg)
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Very nicely done!!
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And the collection grows. :)
Very nice. :-*
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A slight diversion into agriculture...
I was going to "plant my corn" on smaller modular bases, which would allow individual bases of troops to be dropped into the middle of a corn field, but tbh I prefer the look of large swathes of corn.
Instead, i'll also be making some smaller scatter pieces, so if a unit ventures into a field, i can just remove the main module, and replace with a bit of scatter.
(https://i.imgur.com/jMLjbLB.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WOYsMEZ.jpeg)
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Very interesting. How are these made?
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They look great
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Thanks both
Very interesting. How are these made?
They are from a firm called JTT... i've just added them to a base, textured and then painted
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Managed to finish another Perry ammunition /supply wagon ... the hot weather is definitely shortening drying times... although not always in a good way
(https://i.imgur.com/pHXdNch.jpeg)
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Your recent additions all look good! Well done, lad!
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The wagon train is groing fast. :-*
Well done.
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Cracking collection mate
Those corn stalks are fantastic!
Cheers
Matt
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Cheers everyone :)
A couple more units - 64th Foot & Queens Rangers - not painted by myself, just rebased & reflagged. The loyalists are Perry metals, and the regulars are Perry plastics.
(https://i.imgur.com/tqrUe2e.jpeg)
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Lovely collection and indeed the corn stalks are great. :-* :-*
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They look good! Well done, Akula!
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Cheers guys :)
Just a small update today - a freshly painted artillery crew/gun, plus some rebased pack mules (not painted by me)
(https://i.imgur.com/Q1FHa1C.jpeg)
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Painted by whomever, they look good!