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| Cheap and cheerful, I've gone to the white robes with stripes format. |
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| This lot gives me 6 elements, enough for most DBA sized armies! As far as the current Fantasy Middle Eastern armies go it leaves me with just one more unit - Turkish style infantry spears - to go before I officially end this part of the project. At some stage I'll do a load of Tuaregs as a camel army and see about some robed Arab cavalry - but could be a while before I look at that. |
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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. |
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| Six element unit - useful as a lot of relevant DBA armies have up to six elements of 3Cv, and currently I'm now able to field fully armoured on armoured horses, fully armoured rider on unarmoured horse, and these unarmoured types. One example, Black Sheep and White Sheep Turkoman, though I would possibly use Armoured riders on armoured horses for their 3Cv - it's nice to be able to do that. |
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| One thing I perhaps do regret - I didn't paint the 'fez' under the turban in a different colour. Would probably have been better and I did do it with the light cavalry! |
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| I've got enough 'Turkish' cavalry to field just about any combination of Turkish or Arab armies now. This lot are what I would consider a 'pure' Turkish army - 6 3Cv and 6 2LH. For the general I've substituted the Sarmatian conversion on fully armoured horses as the general. Army list is the all cavalry option of III/11(b) 'Central Asian Turkish 550AD-1330AD, Others. I have enough figures to use this army against the Black Sheep and White Sheep army, though I would probably give them all the armoured horses! |
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| A few years ago I bought a mixed Garrison/Minifigs 7YW Austrian army for possible future use. Half the army went campaigning in the North and the rest is finally getting sorted... Needs some grenadiers and the hussars are actually Prussian, but it's a good basis and means I can get on with some others. There are still some more figures to do but all I'm doing with them is removing flock, quick coat of gloss paint and rebased. |
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| The figures generally are variable in quality - some have lost their bayonets for example. However, the star of the show is the superb cannon. |
Next army I think I'll start is the British army. Meanwhile I've been putting various cavalry figures under the microscope - it's still a mess in that area!
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| 3 x 7Hd... to cover all of the DBA armies I need another element but this lot will do for now. |
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| No officers or standard bearers - just a rabble mix of swordsmen, spearmen, javelins and a couple of archers. |
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| When I originally did this army I didn't give it a Review because... well, it's a lot smaller than my usual armies! |
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| Prussian army as described below. It includes all the elements - Musketeers, Fusiliers, Grenadiers, Cuirassiers and Dragoons. Naturally, for Hussars I had to use the ones dressed in black :) |
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| Interestingly I did do a conversion of Von Seydlitz, it's just that I put him on a separate base instead of part of an element. |
'The Primary Matchup: Prussia vs. Austria-Hungary
1. Kingdom of Prussia
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1x General (Heavy Cavalry): Cuirassiers (Frederick or Seydlitz).
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1x Heavy Cavalry: Dragoons.
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1x Light Cavalry: Hussars (Perfect for rapid flank maneuvers).
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6x Musketeers/Fusiliers (Shot/Musket): The main battle line.
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2x Grenadiers (Elite Shot): Place these on the flanks of your line to absorb
heavy pressure or spearhead an attack.
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1x Light or Medium Gun (Artillery): Representing Prussia's highly mobile horse
artillery or battalion guns.
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1x General (Heavy Cavalry): Cuirassiers (Daun or Loudon).
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1x Light Cavalry: Hussars.
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7x Musketeers (Shot/Musket): A deep, resilient white-coated wall.
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2x Grenadiers (Elite Shot): Your shock infantry to counter the Prussian elite.
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1x Heavy Gun (Artillery): The famous, devastating Austrian Liechtenstein
artillery to smash Prussian lines from afar.
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| I've put the 7YW French Range on Pages. A quick note on horses - they seem to be interchangeable to a degree, for example one master figure marked 7FC2 is exactly the same as a master figure marked 7FC2/3/4... |
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| I think this is a French 7YW Master mould so I've based my figure ids on the figures on the mould! |
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| Two completed units today - a unit of fantasy camels and a unit of robed Arab 2Ps |
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| The camel riders are a small lancer unit. Total fantasy but thought they'd be fun to do. |
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| The main issue is that they wear trousers rather than robes. If I ever do a Tuareg army I'll need to modify these. |
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| And also a quick unit of 2Ps archers. I gave them an officer but haven't bothered with a standard. |
The next units I'm doing are some 7Hd and 6 elements of Turkish 3Cv. After that I've cast a couple of 12 figure 7YW Prussian units.
