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| Not so much a Brigade, more a Detachment, |
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| Probably all I'll do on single bases, thoughmight do a 24 strong batallion for DBX. |
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| I've given the Gardner gun brass barrels to give a bit of relief from the assembly being all black. |
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| At some stage I'll have to decide what to do about ship borne machine guns - what to make, what to buy! |
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| Having lots of ships I need lots of sailors. Didn't have many 20mm sailors so bought two lots from Jacklex. |
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| They wear Sennit hats so not as realistic they could be... but I'm not going to worry about that. |
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| Two 'mistakes' I've made - probably shouldn't have painted the bases grey and should have just left them with their original bases instead of putting them on new bases. |
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| The second batch have been undercoated ready for painting. This should give me enough figures for the 20mm 'at sea' contingent. |
My view of the figures? Like them - totally compatible with Rose 20mm and look good.
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| Back in the 60's I bought the Airfix fort. It had some French Foreign Legion figures attached, some of which have survived. Back then, my 'wargames' took place outside and artillery fire consisted of throwing clods of earth at them. This lot show the effects of ancient battles... |
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| So, first things first a good cleaning was in order! |
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| Based and given covering of PVA glue - OK, accept the pooling to a certain extent, accept the loss of detail, but it should make them a bit tougher! |
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| Total surviving figures... Basic paint job but looks OK, done as pulp rather than 'authentic' - troops should have white trousers but I reckon all French soldiers should have red trousers! |
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| That brown spodge is actually a pistol holster! Also, Vallejo basic flesh doesn't photograph well. |
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| Couple of bases still need touching up a bit. If I choose (and I will) more Foreign Legion troops I'll go with Jacklex. They should be getting a reasonable amount of business from me in comoing months. I'm currently checking their site daily for when the Chinese come out! |
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| Should be enough of the single based French line colonial infantry for pulp uses. |
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| Figures are a mix of Rose infantry with Jacklex officer and standard bearer. Flag just a basic paper tricolour from the internet - download flag, copy, reverse copy, put them together so that I finish up with both sides. Again, nothing fancy on this lot, just basic wargames standard. Future figures will be for the element based army. |
From Steven:
I finished a platoon of Panzer III Ns yesterday. I have continued use of colour modulation and working on weathering techniques. I think these are a bit better than the Panzer IIs. Using decals for the numbers and balkankreuze worked a lot better.
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| I've finished this unit so it can be fielded in two different formats. Here it is basically ordered as three separate units - perhaps three companies in a battalion, or three battalions in a regiment, or three regiments in a brigade! The officer in the kilt then acts as the senior officer. |
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| And here the extra command groups have gone to give a 24 figure unit with one command group. |
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| So I have a total of four officers and three pipers. |
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| As for the other ranks... those tartans and stockings are enough to make me never do a Scottish unit again! The 42mm Scots are much easier! |
So that leaves me with one lancer squadron to finish this 'army'. I doubt that I will do a version of this army based on elements - I'll leave that to 20mm.
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| OK, One building, one statue. With all the Chinese figures I'm making I needed a bit of architecture! |
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| The building was off ebay - nice size and scaled OK for 20 to 28mm! Should be a very useful piece of terrain. |
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| This rather imposing structure came from our local aquarist store. Again, should be useful for a number of scenarios. |
In terms of figures, 28mm individual ones should be finished for quite a while apart from 'monsters'. 20mm for larger scale battles - got a prototype hopping vampire, actual army... Jaclex are supposed to be bringing out a range of Colonial era Chnese this month, so that should provide a good basis.
