Building a 2mm Land Ironclads army

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Hello all,
The last of my Brigade orders arrived today, so I've finally started with my latest project; a smallish French army for Wessex games' Land Ironclads rules. The whole thing *should* only take a few days (but please don't quote me on that).

Firstly, all the bits and pieces laid out;

90 bases of various sizes & 4 land Ironclads from Brigade Models, and the French FPW army pack from Irregular Miniatures.

Three-and-a-half hours later;

From left to right: 2 infantry battalions, 6 supply and command bases (top) & 2 cavalry squadrons (bottom), 4 Land Ironclads (top) & 4 artillery batteries (bottom), 3 contraption bases.

Quality of the figures is good, although the infantry and cavalry blocks had a fair bit of flash on their bases, which took a lot of filing (and blood. My fingers are full of tiny holes).
Hopefully more photos tomorrow.
Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

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Everything is undercoated (in white!), and the infantry have their main colours on (this took longer than you'd think);

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I can see my fantastic skills have left you all speechless  .


the latter are Cuirassiers. Honest.

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  they are sooooo tiny

Starts to look nice. did you already plan how you are going to finish of the bases? I guess it's not an artic army

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Thanks. I'm going to do the bases plain green, and then add bits of flock, sand etc. I think. Or maybe just green. I'll worry about it later, anyway...

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Lancers;

Command bases;

And supply;


2mm figures are really easy to paint, and many have a surprising amount of detail.

Edit - Before I forget, here's a great site on all things tiny, which has inspired me much;
http://steelonsand.blogspot.com/search/label/2mm%20ECW
I think this chap can safely claim that he has more ECW troops than you...

Also, 100+ views! Someone does care!

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Guns;

Supply;

Ironclads;

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The horse is based. Terrible picture I'm afraid, it looks marginally better in the flesh. Now I look at it, it needs a bit of touching up...