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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Brian Smaller on January 12, 2015, 10:57:03 PM
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Hi chaps
Completed last week. My first effort for 2015. Shouldn't even be seen on the same forum as these by Captain Blood
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=40047.0
but I am a believer in what that great thinker Harry Callaghan said "A man(s) got to know his limitations".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0
Brigade Game models. Also included is an artillery battery of ship guns with some tars and marines manning them.
Please pop over and take a look.
http://woolshedwargamer.com/2015/01/12/28mm-royal-navy-landing-party-brigade-games/
Cheers and Happy New Year to you all
Brian
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Great stuff, especially the gun crews.
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What are the basing sizes and the rule system you use?
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The infantry are based on 60x40mm. I was going to put them on 40x40mm like my light infantry but I couldn't find any and couldn't be bothered cutting them out of 3mm balsa wood so went with what I had in my supplies box (I was away from home when I painted these you see). I generally use the 40x60 bases for my infantry to try to keep bayonets inside the area of the base - something I decided to when I first started painting plastic infantry. The artillery base is about 110mm diameter - give or take.
I have not really based these for any particular rule system. Using similarly based models I have used my Napoleonics for Black Powder, General de Brigade, Piquet and a few others.
Cheers
Brian
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The miniatures are very nice and no shame on showing them.
I like them. Way better than mine.
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Well done! I really like the RN landing party figures. They give me inspiration for my future War of 1812 Chesapeake campaign figures and games.
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Completed last week. My first effort for 2015. Shouldn't even be seen on the same forum as these by Captain Blood
Comparisons are odious ;)
They're great figures aren't they, and you've done a good job on them.
I just wish Lon would commission Mr Hicks to do a few more packs. I always wanted a press gang, or a pack of boarders with marlin spikes and belaying pins...
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very nice painting what make are the guns
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Comparisons are odious ;)
They're great figures aren't they, and you've done a good job on them.
I just wish Lon would commission Mr Hicks to do a few more packs. I always wanted a press gang, or a pack of boarders with marlin spikes and belaying pins...
:) Odious except when they are true. Your work is incredible.
I agree, be great to see some more in that range.
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I'm working on these guys myself right now. Glad you posted these. I had no idea how to paint the gunners.
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I'm working on these guys myself right now. Glad you posted these. I had no idea how to paint the gunners.
Did you mean the Marine gunners? Not sure if the caps are right but they look OK so went with scarlet.
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Bonsoir Brian,
Splendid work and excellent figures!
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Paul
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Did you mean the Marine gunners? Not sure if the caps are right but they look OK so went with scarlet.
Yes the ones with the hand spikes on the base with the cannons. I didn't know if they were marines or sailors.
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very nice painting what make are the guns
They are Brigade Games as well.
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Are these figures compatible with Perry British infantry and artillery?
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Are these figures compatible with Perry British infantry and artillery?
I think size wise they are very close. Saying that though, I am not sure exactly what compatible means any more. All these 28mm figures are within a hair of each other, give or take. I have Old Glory, Perry, Front Rank, Bicorne, Connoisseur, Brigade Games, Elite, Offensive Miniatures, Hotspur and Hinchliffe in my Anglo-Spanish and French armies and they all look OK together on the table top.
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I like them, especially the gun crew. Where are the gun crew from?
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I like them, especially the gun crew. Where are the gun crew from?
Brigade games.
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Comparisons are odious ;)
They're great figures aren't they, and you've done a good job on them.
I just wish Lon would commission Mr Hicks to do a few more packs. I always wanted a press gang, or a pack of boarders with marlin spikes and belaying pins...
A few more packs are on my new sculpting list.
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A few more packs are on my new sculpting list.
Lon, a pack of French sailors in their uniforms might be nice.
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A few more packs are on my new sculpting list.
Great news - thanks Lon :)
Lon, a pack of French sailors in their uniforms might be nice.
There is one French sailors pack (boarders) in the range already.
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Great news - thanks Lon :)
There is one French sailors pack (boarders) in the range already.
Yes, I've noticed them in the past, but never really took to them because they look a bit scruffy-dressed. IIRC, Napoleon's regular navy wore proper uniforms. Anyone else know?
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Lon's sailors are actually pretty accurate for the pre-1804 period as French ship crews were not issued with proper military uniforms until that year.
Attempts had been made to standardise dress after the French Revolution, particularly in 1794 when a National Assembly decree imposed that each sailor receive a regular issue of clothing in either dark blue, brown or grey. Headgear tended to be a brown or grey stocking cap, though red appears to have been a popular alternative. Chronic shortages of supplies meant that these regulations were often ignored and sailors usually wore civilian clothing on board their ships.
Military uniforms were imposed on the fleet on May 5 1804 with the generalisation of the dark blue paletot and round hat. Facing colours were introduced in 1808 along with the much hated infantry shako.
Ironically, the first French sailors to receive a proper military uniform where the Légion Nautique serving in Egypt after the Abukir disaster of 1798. The surviving crews were formed into a legion which crewed light gunboats on the Nile and garrisoned river forts. Later, most of these sailors were absorbed into the regular infantry demi-brigades to make up for losses, and a few even ended up in the Camel Corps. In Egypt, they wore a rather fetching uniform comprised of a short red coatee faced blue and a black round hat (incidentally, the BG French sailors are actually plain sailors rather than Légion Nautique, though they are advertised as the latter) :
(http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2013/5/19/9/a/8/9a8737ce-c0c4-11e2-9946-188fe8d69df7.jpg)
(http://www.michtoy.com/michtoy/AGAGN35.jpg)
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Comparisons are odious ;)
I always wanted a press gang, or a pack of boarders with marlin spikes and belaying pins...
A press gang and some drunken sailors to round up. Could be a fun little skirmish game.
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Oooh - these are very appealing; I like them a lot. Thanks for sharing. If I can briefly pinch some thread space, this makes we wonder if anyone makes any Royal Navy figures in 20mm (or very compact 25mm).
Anyway, I enjoyed seeing these - first time I've had any Napoleonic temptation in about 15 years...!
Doug
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Hi Doug - not sure exactly but the Steve Barber naval figures are 25mm rather than 28mm if I remember correctly. Worth checking them out.
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Hi Doug - not sure exactly but the Steve Barber naval figures are 25mm rather than 28mm if I remember correctly. Worth checking them out.
Thanks Brian - will do. I looked at Newline as being the most obvious 20mm suppliers but no luck there. I'll look at Steve Barber.
Doug