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| The Garrison guns are not the best in the world, but easy to cast and paint. |
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| I've set up one medium gun on a base with a crew for immediate use. The guns look blue - actually painted neutral grey! |
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| Also got a heavy gun, light gun/howitzer and limber painted ready to use if needed. |
Considering it hit a million in March this year... then another million in 6 months when it took 12 years for the first million...
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| First of the British army - '2nd Horse '. Artillery is next in line, three guns but only one crew so far nearly done. |
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| The trumpeter's uniform is based on the picture of a kettle drummer I found on Pinterest. |
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| Other figures from Kronoskaf. Also 'based on' - for example I've painted belts white rather than natural leather! |
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| Which also finishes the Austrian component of the 7YW armies. |
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| Currently working on some Arab 4Bw archers. On 7YW part way through the British 2nd Horse, some artillery and Grenadiers. |
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| Meanwhile, the Garrison range is limited and doesn't include Highlanders or Light Dragoons. I'm looking at the SKT AWI Range for these though sadly the Highlanders aren't wearing kilts. |
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| Sometimes there are answers hiding in plain sight... for instance, instead of spending hours trying to match (often misplaced) figures from the masters boxes to codes forthe cavalry I could have tried looking in the old Garrison trade boards that displayed Garrison figures at conventions... |
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| Having said that not all the figures are present... the cavalry standard bearer I originally (ie, up to a couple of days ago) thought had a plain flag staff was actually the French one - a close look at the coats meant I now know which one is the 'correct' British standard bearer. I'm currently painting up 7BC1, 7BC3,7BC8 (standard bearer) and 7BC11 and will post pictures when they are finished. |
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| Pity some of the missing ones are cavalry - especially the musicians. |
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| The Prussians all have a different tricorne to the other nationalities - makes them a bit easier to identify compared to British, French and Austrians that all have the same heads! |
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| French cavalry weren't included in the SKT catalogue listed below. 7FC4 was originally dentified as being British... |
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Message from Steven plus photos...
'Hi Dad, see attached photos of work in progress tanks. I think the ones with hard edge camo, and two colour soft edge camo, are basically okay.
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| After these just a unit of Arab 4Bw and Turkish 4Sp to go - though later on I'll no doublt do a load of Tuareg camels and convert some Achaemenid Persian cavalry to make more convincing Arab cavalry! |
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| Putting shields pointing to the front makes it look like some of these are trying to run away - looks a lot better on the table than in the photos! The officer in the blue sash is actually side on and about to slash someone with his sword - just looks like he's got his back to the enemy. Did these as mainly spears with a couple of bows as a kind of unenthusiastic town militia rather than a disorganised mob. |
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| For the Turkish 2Ps I've gone for javelin shield rather than bow - got Arab bow armed PS and Turkish 3Bw so just adding to the diversity. |
