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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: levied troop on September 01, 2017, 08:07:44 AM
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A month late to the thread, due to getting my 1835 stuff ready for action, but now I’m ready to move up to the modern age - 1860.
Seduced by the glamour of Giuseppe Garibaldi, or more precisely Gringo 40’s figures of the period, I’m aiming for a Red Shirt force suitable for Sharp Practice by Christmas.
This is the start of a possible demo game using some Grand Manner buildings (Penninsula Spanish but don’t look out of place for Sicily) and some of these may slip into the photos as I progress them. If the authorities permit, I might expand this to include the Neopolitan forces as well.
First off, the man himself:
(https://s19.postimg.org/85282n2tv/garibaldi_1.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/tepudhj4f/)
And the first unit:
(https://s19.postimg.org/y3afmexoz/Red_Shirt_unit_1.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/ey76cnj0v/)
And a water carrier - this one is the Mary Seacole giveaway figure from a previous Partizan but I thought the dress style wasn’t too dissimilar from some Sicillian dress:
(https://s19.postimg.org/y4kdftzir/water_carrier.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/ld679bpqn/)
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Great start!
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lovely work...........
cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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I like your figures.
Look forward to seeing what you paint next.
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Very interesting, the figures and buildings look great.
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More progress.
The Sharp Practice list I want to complete is as follows:
Leader status IV (Garibaldi)
3 groups of 8 Red Shirts
Leader Status III (Bixo)
2 groups of 8 Red Shirts
Leader Status I (undecided yet)
1 group of 8 Red Shirts
Leader Status I (undecided yet)
1 group of 6 Picotti (Sicilian bandits)
Brother Pantaleo (looking for a mad monk with a pistol or musket)
Progress so far:
An alternative Garibaldi to the last one with new ‘go faster’ option:
(https://s19.postimg.org/pn5xvhpcj/image3.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/a1ombjde7/)
A Red Shirt unit (yes I know, but there weren’t that many red shirts to go around at first!):
(https://s19.postimg.org/eatcdpodf/image2.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/ijy2fvrmn/)
Another Red Shirt unit:
(https://s19.postimg.org/tjj9rhprn/image1.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/vbc8me94f/)
And there’s a new backdrop, the Grand Manner windmill. It’ll get sails when I work out how to do them and a little hilly base to raise it above the mundane hovels.
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I think Perrys used to have a Spanish Monk with a Blunderbuss from the Carlist war range?
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Nice! I like the windmill, too.
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I think Perrys used to have a Spanish Monk with a Blunderbuss from the Carlist war range?
Thanks, there's a couple of possibilities in that pack:
https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_37_47&products_id=1756&osCsid=scuop7s27cma87j8pv2lglgf00
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Nice painting, basing too!
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Missed my last two deadlines, but back on track now, three more units finished (and two buildings :)):
(https://s19.postimg.org/5gkfrz46r/fullsizeoutput_206.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/hiftm4df3/)
This one includes Col. John Beard as a ‘Big Man’ - the Garibaldi’s get quite a lot of these:(https://s19.postimg.org/qq822tzwz/fullsizeoutput_207.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/a2gk0c55b/)
And the last unit has a Boothill lady, actually Mexican for my TWI game but as I’d just finished her, she looks suitable for a Sicilian farmer’s daughter waving her brave boys off:
(https://s19.postimg.org/5tbty5u6b/fullsizeoutput_208.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/lrkjoaoe7/)
Plus I need to finish the flag, just debating homemade or pre-printed.
Just one more unit (Picotti - Sicillian bandits) and one more Big Man to go and technically this is finished, hopefully before Christmas.
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This is a pretty interesting project, don't know much about the setting. The buildings are great for flavor, well done.
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Figures are nice, but I love the buildings.
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Lovely stuff. :)
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Thanks chaps.
Figures are nice, but I love the buildings.
Then you may like what’s coming over Christmas :)
(https://s19.postimg.org/3uj8ylyab/Monastery_1.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/9vgxvokwf/)
But that may need to be another thread, it’s a little outside the scope of the AP idea.
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So beautiful figures and buildings! Good luck toyour project!
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That is a great set of buildings. Who makes them?
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They are the Grand Manner Spanish range, good enough for a lot of the Mediterranean:
https://www.grandmanner.co.uk/28mm_Spanish_Napoleonic--category--13.html
although the large building, based on the Convent at Bussaco, is now OOP.
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Had a misfortune with the Picotti (don’t ask, I’ll only cry :-[) over Christmas so I reverted to another red shirt unit:
(https://s19.postimg.org/99eketoyr/fullsizeoutput_210.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
and the final ‘Big Man’ Ninio Bixo:
(https://s19.postimg.org/kyik2snn7/fullsizeoutput_211.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/uj26pocz3/)
Here’s the ‘whole’ force:
(https://s19.postimg.org/3xznu4ibn/fullsizeoutput_212.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/qzg8zvhz3/)
Technically finished, bar a flag, and only slightly late. Now I’ve got the Neopolitans to do and some more terrain, but I’ll take those up under another thread.
Thanks for looking and you can have a laugh at them in the flesh at Salute (if I get everything finished in time lol)
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They are really beautiful :-* good luck for Salute!
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Lovely painting. Looking forward to your next thread already.