November Painting Challenge

Only just got everything done.

Fireforge Peasants going to appear in many games including Rangers of Shadow Deep

Krampus an amazing figure from the Hellboy Game

Bonnie Prince Charlie and some of his men ,all Flags of war 

Governemt Troops to Tackle the Prince again Flags of War probably be using Sharp Practice for this period

Some stunning figures from Galloping Major for the FIW again Sharps or maybe M&T 2

AW MIniatures figures for FIW 

HMS Shah naval brigade for the AZW all Empress .rulrs wuill be the menwho would be king ,although i am tinkering with my own set which have proved popular 

 

October Painting Challenge -FIW update

 Another part of the challenge completed ,the largest part a mix of 40  F.I.W figures for either Sharp Practice 2 or Muskets and Tomahawks 2 , all have been sat on my painting table for a while one complete unit and the others left overs from other completed sets 

A group of Huron French Allies ,mainly Galloping Major with one odd Northstar 

12 local militaia led by self appointed Major Disaster

Two versions of daniel hyacinthe liénard de beaujeu a Fench officer who led the troops into battle in Indian garb ,the left hand figures is from Northstar and rminds me of Charles Hawtry and will never grace my table the other is a much more impressive version from Galloping Major

Rogers and some of his Rangers

A few Brave settlers led by Reverend Mister Bligh 

A lone French Militia again galloping Major

 A few Mohawks a mix of Galloping Major and Conquest Miniatures before they became Warlord 

Crann Tara

Finished a deployment point for my Jacobites for Sharpes Practice , a Crann Tara or fiery cross a call to the Clans for a meeting . A flags of war piper helps call the clans .

Sharpes -a story of a football hooligans rise through the ranks

Managed to get a lot of my Peninsular war British finished ,based on a certain TV series to take part

Harper & Sharpe leaving the pub

  in the Too Fat Lardies sharp practice rules .Figures amix of Brigade ,warlord and perrys ,building and movement trays by charlie foxtrot ,just need to add the name tags .

The Chosen Men -Hagman ,cooper,Harris,Tongue,Perkins and Kelly 

Sweet William and his Royal American Rifles

Hawkswill and a few of the South Essex

Hogan mounted and dismounted

Teresa

Major Dunnett

 A few more 95th 

Jacobites

Finished these a while ago but putting my Royal Ecossaise command away ,I realised I never put these lads on the blog ,a unit of 12 clansmen and 2 leaders 1 real and 1 fictitious .All flags of war figures to be used with the  sharp practice supplement 1745.

`the full unit

John Roy Stuart

The Red Fox

Royal Ecossais-

I am getting through lots of painting but to stop getting fed up ,I m picking random packs out of the lead pile ,no way to get armies painted but its more fun . `Here are the command group of the Royal Ecossais a French Regiment of mainly Scottish Volunteers who were sent to aid the Jacobites in the 1745 rebellion . Figures and Flags by Flags of war .The finished unit will be used for the Jacobite Rebellion using too fat lardies Sharp Practice.

"In addition to red coated Irish Picquets Lord John Drummond, the commander of the French Troops, also brought some 400 men of his own regiment, the Royal Ecossois. This was a Scottish unit raised in 1744, for which Drummond was given permission to raise a second battalion in Scotland. A couple of officers and some men can certainly be identified as having joined the regiment after its arrival in Scotland, but the projected second battalion never materialised. Unlike the Irish regiments there was no polite fiction that these Scots soldiers were merely 'on loan' from the British Army and consequently, instead of the full-skirted red coats worn by the Irish, the Royal Ecossois had a rather dashing blue uniform." - Stuart Reid, 'Like Hungry Wolves'

Charlie Foxtrot -Pantile Hermitage

Finished the second building ,this time a hermitage and this one was easier  to build than the first ,fitted together in a few minutes (plus drying time) so easy as everything just fits together so easily .Probably buy a lot more of these I can see a full village making an appearance .

Charlie Foxtrot Pantile Buildings

In the past i have purchased lots of counters ,movement trays etc from Charlie Foxtrot and have sseen their buildings but thought they looked complicated,well I purchased 2 recently to use in my planned Sharps Practice games set in the peninsular .I started one last night and finished it today ,what asimple task it was ,the parts fitted together really well and following the instructions on the web site I think I made it look fairly nice . The kit is MDF and resin and includes aouple of optional bits and replacents for the fiddly mdd shutters .Will be making the second one this weekend and hopefully show them off together . 10/10

Pantile Building 3 with brigade figures for comparison

Muskets and Tomahawks second edition.

Just received the new version of muskets and Tomahawks along with the 1st supplement and the cards and tokens. I do have the first edition which I liked but I converted to Shjarps Practice a while ago .There are alot of changes at first glance ,this ediition is acore rule book with the basic rules and you have to buy supplement books to cover different periods muchlike the black powder rules from warlord. The other changes are moving to D10 rather than D6 and how the cards are used .The book is an impressive hard back full colour but only 79 pages long which are packed with colour photos which hint at future supplements such as the Zulu war and Napoleonics . There is alot of explaining of the rules with examples throughout but a quick run through shows there only about 17 pages of rules so a pretty expensive book .The first supplement is Redcoats and Tomahawks ,a magazine like book of 42 pages ,mine is already suffering from folds and creases ,the army lists cover the French Indian war ,war of Independence and the war of 1812 ,I must admit Im not impressed with the lists at all ,again lots of colour eye candy making it a very expensive magazine .The cards again are nice but flimsy and the token set is actually a card punch out set ,written in French on one side and English the other ,again expensive for what they are , I presume some one will bring out MDF or plastic tokens soon you also need new cards and tokens for each supplement you buy . I recieved 3 free minis which are nice .Overall from what ive read so far im not looking at giving up sharp practice . 7/10