Rose artillery masters.

Somewhere someone mentioned that they thought they'd seen the masters for the Rose French Napoleonic gun (probably on one of the Old Metal Detector Rose blogs). That made me think people might be interested in them.

Most of my Rose masters are in tobacco tins or cigar cases, the 20mm (or, as described on the box, 25mm) artillery are in a 'normal' box. The 25 on the box definitely looks as if it originally said 20.

The masters are very neatly packed in polystyrene. The guns include limbers though I have not made moulds for these.

The French gun. The carriage is so similar in design to other nations I think I'll use it as a universal carriage.

British gun.

The American Civil War Parrot gun.

I bought some metal

Since closing Garrison back in 2014 I've been casting figures for myself using left over stocks of metal and unwanted figures. These ran out so I bought an extra 5k from Tiranti. Buying in small quantities is really quite expensive!

Les Higgins catalogue

I've just posted the Les Higgins catalogue on Pages. Actually, the scans I took these from seem to be missing the Ancients page - I'll reinsert it later.

(Note that when Les Higgins died his ranges were taken over by Phoenix Model Developments.)

Douglas Miniatures catalogue

I've just posted a copy of the early (1970,71 or72?) Douglas Miniatures catalogue on Pages.

Napoleonic Lifeguards

First of the British cavalry units.

No British horses available so having to use French ones.

The horse has been painted as a bit of a mish-mash. Bit of a mix of Life Guard and Scots Greys...

Figure itself is not carrying a carbine so possibly meant to be an officer - not something I'm going to worry about too much!

Meanwhile, been thinking about this figure. Instead of considering it to be a Life Guard figure, I 've decided to look on it as a basic Carabineer figure - which would enable me to produce heavy cavalry for a number of different armies. May not be totally accurate but should 'look' right.

May be a while before I get my next unit finished - number of work sessions has trebled in last couple of weeks as I get back into work so going to have fewer painting days. Still, pays well and gets me out of the house.

Garrison/Rose cavalry comparison.

Once I've 'finished' the Garrison Napoleonic forces I will (probably) do a couple of Rose armies. However, I had already done (years ago - hence better paint job) some Rose hussars so thought it might be useful to post a comparison between the two.

There is a very definite size difference, not helped by the fact that Garrison horses have their own base while the Rose horses are attached directly to the element base.

Different colour bases due to running out of the colour I normally use!

Will I use them in a 'mixed' army? Don't know - fact is, Garrison doesn't have many heavy cavalry, Rose much better in that area, likewise no Garrison French artillerymen available - and I'll use Rose guns for both anyway.

British Grenadiers

As in 'normal service is resumed'.

Quite happy with these - reasonable old style glossy wargames standard.

I should have made the flag staff a bit longer - the flag is a bit too big. Or I could have reprinted the flag in a smaller size...

Hard to see, but at the time I painted these I only had one British officer - so I cheated and used a French figure as standard bearer.

Next, some British heavy cavalry on French horses - then, not sure. Was going to do some Highlanders but I might make the next unit French line infantry.