Author Topic: Franco-Prussian War in 10mm (Pendraken) (Read 18695 times)

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #120 on:** October 23, 2020, 04:09:22 PM »

So I am finishing the bases of my newest miniatures and I thought I would make a couple comments first.

Nick knows I love VSF and while I am very tempted to veer in that direction, I want to stay focused on the historic armies. So I'm trying to keep my head down to finish the French and Prussian armies. Having said that, because VSF is fairly Brit oriented, I have done some searching around for complementary figures as Pendraken doesn't really have the figures I would want to do.

Magister Militum does some nice Zulu War minis that would fit:
https://www.magistermilitum.com/era/age-of-rifles.html?cat%5B0%5D=59661&cat%5B1%5D=62241&cat%5B2%5D=62242&cat%5B3%5D=61918&p=1

And some of their Crimean War range would also do nicely (cavalry, guards, highlanders, and generals):
https://www.magistermilitum.com/era/age-of-rifles.html?cat%5B0%5D=59661&cat%5B3%5D=61918&cat%5B4%5D=62238&p=1

As a side note, my son and daughter-in-law tested positive for Covid earlier this week, and my wife and I have just received the results of our tests: negative (thank God)

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #121 on:** October 24, 2020, 04:05:18 PM »

A major update!

Finally finished my 5 infantry regiments:

And here is my entire army including 2 new forest terrain pieces:

Completed Project minis: CMD: 4, Inf: 90, Cav: 9, Guns: 4, Art. men: 16, Terrain: 3

DintheDin · « **Reply #122 on:** October 24, 2020, 04:38:36 PM »

An impressive sight! Congrats for your work!

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #123 on:** October 24, 2020, 06:24:50 PM »

Thanks, Din!

Here is link to the full sized photo of my army to date:

DintheDin · « **Reply #124 on:** October 24, 2020, 06:31:14 PM »

Excellent! Keep them coming!

valleyboy · « **Reply #125 on:** October 24, 2020, 08:29:08 PM »

Yeah well done

vtsaogames · « **Reply #126 on:** October 25, 2020, 12:36:55 AM »

Very nice!

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #127 on:** October 25, 2020, 01:24:47 AM »

Thanks, all!

Here is where I stand:

2 battalions of Chasseurs and a regiment of Cuirassiers being prepped. I'll also probably do another couple tree bases as well.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #128 on:** October 25, 2020, 10:03:02 AM »

Blinking marvellous Ray. I was going to say it looks like you’ve broken the back of it, but under the circumstances...

You’re well into it though. That’s a big achievement. Now finish off those Frenchies and bring on the Prussians!

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #129 on:** October 25, 2020, 11:10:54 AM »

Thanks for the support, Richard!

Four months into the project and I'm not quite yet half way through the French... but I'm getting there.

I'm looking forward to see how the Cuirassiers come out. I'm going to paint their horses white based on this painting:

It's been a rough start though. I had to green stuff all the right ears on their tiny little horses...

gamer Mac · « **Reply #130 on:** October 25, 2020, 06:34:37 PM »

Wow keep up the good work

Roo · « **Reply #131 on:** October 25, 2020, 06:51:40 PM »

Lovely collection you have building there...green stuff ears in 10mm...the stuff of nightmare to most; you will smash it!

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #132 on:** October 25, 2020, 07:29:08 PM »

Cheers, Mac and Roo!

Quote from: Roo on October 25, 2020, 06:51:40 PM

...green stuff ears in 10mm...the stuff of nightmare to most; you will smash it!

The ear of my officer's horse fell off!

The rest are very crude... but I think they will do.

We'll see!

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #133 on:** November 13, 2020, 02:33:24 PM »

Small update...

The Cuirassiers white horses were driving me crazy (whose idea was that!

) so I pivoted and did my Chasseurs.

Here is a way too close picture of them:

And here they are based with a couple more tree scenics:

In a grand tactical format they should be one base of 6 figures per battalion. In the end, because I wanted them to look like they were skirmishing I decided on 2 bases of 3 minis per battalion. So these represent 2 battalions of Chasseurs.

So... back to finishing my Cuirassiers and .... maybe... some sheep.

Malamute · « **Reply #134 on:** November 13, 2020, 03:11:35 PM »

They look splendid

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