Alliance of the Big Battalions Artistry (AotBB Painting Club)

[Plynkes]

No.55  "The Devil to Pay"


Union Cavalryman, Buford's thin line of blue. McPherson Ridge. 1 July 1863.

"We have twenty-five hundred men. They'll be comin' in force. There'll be twenty thousand comin' down that road in the morning. We're gonna hold here. Long enough for Reynolds and the infantry to arrive. We hang onto the high ground, we have a chance to win this fight that's comin'. Understood?"

(Perry Miniatures)

[Hammers]

No.55  "The Devil to Pay"


Union Cavalryman, Buford's thin line of blue. McPherson Ridge. 1 July 1863.

"We have twenty-five hundred men. They'll be comin' in force. There'll be twenty thousand comin' down that road in the morning. We're gonna hold here. Long enough for Reynolds and the infantry to arrive. We hang onto the high ground, we have a chance to win this fight that's comin'. Understood?"

(Perry Miniatures)

That is lovely image, Dylan. Paintjob, setting and photograph... all of it. I did not know you have an interest in ACW?

[Plynkes]

It's actually the 19th Century conflict that I'm most interested in. But I have never really had any inclination to make games out of it. Something about painting all that blue and grey I suppose. My feeble attention span probably balked at the monotony of it.

But I thought the painting club was a good way to try out something new. Makes a change from the constant stream of African tribesmen around here. Sometimes it feels like those are the only figures I ever paint. Bought that pack of dismounted cavalry ages ago, back when I thought the LPL and I were a good match. They've been sitting around sulking ever since.

[Hammers]

It's actually the 19th Century conflict that I'm most interested in. But I have never really had any inclination to make games out of it. Something about painting all that blue and grey I suppose. My feeble attention span probably balked at the monotony of it.

But I thought the painting club was a good way to try out something new. Makes a change from the constant stream of African tribesmen around here. Sometimes it feels like those are the only figures I ever paint. Bought that pack of dismounted cavalry ages ago, back when I thought the LPL and I were a good match. They've been sitting around sulking ever since.

It's a conflict I shun, eventhough I have a relative who was a colonel @ Richmond for the South (probably promoted above his competence due to the lack of officers at the end of the war).

My scepsism has something to do with my time in the states, where the gamers who put on *huge* spreads at the gaming conventions, the tables groaning under he weight of painted leads. The same persons often were quite humorless, lacking perspective on their hobby and quite prone to get into a verybal figt over some perception of historical interpretation. Much more so than the napoleonic gamers. I am of course generalizing, but what the hell, you know I am right.   

[Plynkes]

It's a conflict I shun, eventhough I have a relative who was a colonel @ Richmond for the South (probably promoted above his competence due to the lack of officers at the end of the war).

I have a relative who was an officer in the Corps d'Afrique (or so I'm told). Kinda like that Ferris Bueller fellow! One day we'll have to get together, dress up and do a re-enactment. We can build sand forts and hurl horse dung and insults at each other. It's what our ancestors would want.

[Hammers]

I have a relative who was an officer in the Corps d'Afrique (or so I'm told). Kinda like that Ferris Bueller fellow! One day we'll have to get together, dress up and do a re-enactment. We can build sand forts and hurl horse dung and insults at each other. It's what our ancestors would want.

It is what our ancestors demand from us!

[Captain Blood]

Great figure, lovely paintwork, and such a simple but effective set up Dylan 

Dez - your cowboy, and Anton's, are very well done, but they are not 'Age of the Big Battalions' - more Old West. We have already had an Old West Painting Club some time ago

I think this is down to a slight misunderstanding on language. (I have to say that your English is very good compared to my Ukrainian - I can't speak any Ukrainian at all!  )

The Age of the Big Battalions genre is all about organised warfare in the age of horse and musket, from the very start of the 1700's through to the end of the 1800s. But not including specific genres within that time period which are catered for elsewhere - like Colonial or Old West.
It is a difficult concept to understand when English is a foreign language to you, I really appreciate. 

Anyway, I'm sure your very nice pictures can remain here in the club, but the board moderator, Lt Hazel, may decide that they don't count towards the target of 100 'Big Battalion' miniatures.

Hope that makes sense.

[Plynkes]

They could be Civil War Bushwhackers, I guess. 

[Captain Blood]

I did think the first one could pass as a Johnny Reb jayhawker...
The second one looks an awful lot like a cowboy though 

[Lt. Hazel]

Dez please post your beautiful miniatures on the Old West Board where they belong to.

[Dez]

OK! Sorry!

[Driscoles]

Iam almost done with mine!

[vcina]

No. 56 AWI figure

[jambo1]

The AWI figure is very nice indeed!

[Stavka]

I’ve currently got a bunch of Napoleonics on the painting table, but they are all ineligible due to the single figure, fully based conditions set out here.

This being the age of big battalions all my figures are on multiple bases- even commanders and skirmishers.

I guess I have a different take on it, and my own personal view is that for this era- and while readily acknowledging that the painting on display in this thread is first-rate- it’s the opportunity of seeing peoples’ finished units, that give me the most pleasure, and which motivates me to push ahead with a project where mass production counts.  

I’ve always been able to paint up a very decent single miniature, but at the cost of productivity when it comes to getting my battalions finished.

Enjoying this thread, though!