AWI British Limber

[Monty]

Step by step I have my collection of AWI British growing. After my infantry summed up to a brigade I thought it might be time to turn to artillery. Since a couple of fellows in our club have several guns I prepared a limber set first:

The set is from the Perry Miniatures's wonderful AWI range. It comes as you see it here with two horses, a kind of limber, a 6pdr gun and a driver. It's a nice, detailed kit without too much trumpery.

Unfortunately the set doesn't come with ropes for the team otherwise that presents the chance to make them yourself. For these I used 0.35mm wire of which I twisted a couple of threads. This gives a nicely structured, flexible and durable rope. Sooner or later I'll try this with the six horse limber teams I have for my Napoleonic British...

Cheers
Stefan

[juergen c. olk]

Beautiful job,Perry Miniatures are a joy to paint.

[Jeff965]

Nice little diorama Monty.

[PAULSPENCE]

Bonjour Monty,

I was just thinking about starting an AWI army earlier today and as I'm limber-mad as can hopefully be seen below....

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=43be0fbdefbc66a6&id=43BE0FBDEFBC66A6%21151&sff=1&authkey=%21AOtApvM2x39e-dM&v=3
your excellent example has encouraged me to see how many AWI figures I already have!

Cheers,

Paul

[Atheling]

Nice work 

Darrell.

[janner]

Nicely dobe

[Belisarius]

Lovely vignette Stefan, I,ve been admiring your AWI collection on your blog.  2  x  questions can we see a close up of your Hessian commander in camp scene , and is the lady on the bed modelled on anyone you know ?

[Monty]

Many thanks for your kind and positive feedback, fellows !
 

Lovely vignette Stefan, I,ve been admiring your AWI collection on your blog.  2  x  questions can we see a close up of your Hessian commander in camp scene , and is the lady on the bed modelled on anyone you know ?

Thanks a lot, Belisarius. Please give me a day or two to answer your questions. I'll take some pictures of the Hessian general tomorrow and I'll try to investigate who made the so called lady. The vignette was arranged by a friend of mine but I'll ask him.

Cheers
Stefan

[Baron von Nickedoften]

What a great sett-up you have for your AWI figures.  I was interested to see you have corresponded with my friend, Giles Allison, and that he explained to you about the people behind the sculpts in the "interrogation" vignette.  The story behind it is that the American officer is Alan Perry himself, and the rest of us are a group of friends who are always asking, "When are you going to add ________ to your AWI range?"  (I'm actually the German officer - I wish I actually looked as good as you have painted me!).

I have a question - what colours did you use on (1) the trousers of the British soldiers in the camp vignette (a lovely faded tan!); and (2) the very, very light blue coat on one of the French officers in the woods in the last photo of Part 1 of the Penobscot game?

Because of the smaller size of the armies/individual units, and the simpler uniforms, AWI projects are a very good way of improving your painting and wargaming skills whilst working your way up to a big(ger) Napoleonic project.  Good luck, and do keep posting pics of your AWI figures.

[Monty]

Lovely vignette Stefan, I,ve been admiring your AWI collection on your blog.  2  x  questions can we see a close up of your Hessian commander in camp scene , and is the lady on the bed modelled on anyone you know ?

Finally I got the answers:
The 'lady' is from Hasslefree miniatures fantasy range. It's HFH006 'Harem Girl' I presume.

I don't think that it's modelled on anyone our appreciated fellow knows. Or at least he's too polite to tell...

Which Hessian commander do you mean? The one with the lady?
He's from a friend of mine but I'll try to get some pictures of him. Actually he's from a SYW Wargames Foundry Set. It's SYWR32 'The General Dressind'. Of course actually not AWI but since his uniform is shown a bit vaguely it works rather well I think.

What a great sett-up you have for your AWI figures.  I was interested to see you have corresponded with my friend, Giles Allison, and that he explained to you about the people behind the sculpts in the "interrogation" vignette.  The story behind it is that the American officer is Alan Perry himself, and the rest of us are a group of friends who are always asking, "When are you going to add ________ to your AWI range?"  (I'm actually the German officer - I wish I actually looked as good as you have painted me!).

I have a question - what colours did you use on (1) the trousers of the British soldiers in the camp vignette (a lovely faded tan!); and (2) the very, very light blue coat on one of the French officers in the woods in the last photo of Part 1 of the Penobscot game?

Because of the smaller size of the armies/individual units, and the simpler uniforms, AWI projects are a very good way of improving your painting and wargaming skills whilst working your way up to a big(ger) Napoleonic project.  Good luck, and do keep posting pics of your AWI figures.

Many thanks, Baron. Indeed it was a very interesting background story to this vignette Giles shared. As for the painting of course I did my very best and I'm glad to hear that you like it.

As for the colour questions:
(2) Those Fenchmen are from a friend's collection and he had them painted by a professional painting service. I'm afriad neither I nor he knows the exact colours.

(1) You mean this scene I presume?

I had to paint this vignette rapidly because for a certain painting challenge it had to be finished at a fixed date. Therefore I made it pretty easy. I painted the trousers and waistcoats with Vallejo Model Colors (VMC) 'Buff' and gave them a whash with thinned Armypainter Quickshade 'Dark Tone'. The highlights were only very, very modest. I used VMC 'Buff' + VMC 'Pale Sand' for them.