tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20814956034154686152024-03-13T03:50:05.804-04:00With Gen'l Custer Down in Old Mexico: A Wargaming BlogRobert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-67688308405340732962018-01-10T01:11:00.000-05:002018-01-10T01:11:52.228-05:00Challenge Ate Entry #1 - Doomdiver Hunt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is on yet again, and my first entry is <a href="http://analogue-hobbies-theme-rounds.blogspot.com/2018/01/flight-from-herrrobert-doomdiver-hunt.html" target="_blank">here!</a></div>
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70 points (15 for the vehicle, 5 for the pilot, and 50 for the bonus theme), and I'm almost halfway to my goal! Click the link for more photos and commentary.<br />
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Onward!Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-87142347181924047502017-06-03T18:58:00.000-04:002017-06-03T18:58:05.591-04:00KublaCon 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, last weekend I was at <a href="http://kublacon.com/" target="_blank">KublaCon</a>, a four day Con at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, CA.</div>
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<b>Friday 3PM <u>Speed-Painting!</u>:</b></div>
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<i>Speed-Painting contest! Can you paint a masterpiece in 40 minutes? Give it your best shot, and win fame, fortune and...Kublabucks! All materials are provided, and contestants are judged immediately after by Kubla Staff. Winners are invited back for a Masterclass Speed-painting session Sunday evening at 6:00 pm.</i></blockquote>
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Pretty much as advertised. They gave ten of us the same mini, the same set of paints, the same brush, and generously allotted an extra five minutes. We were told to concentrate on the mini, not the base. There was some good-natured ribbing from my neighbor about how one was supposed to use as much bubble-gum pink as possible. Fellow contestants ranged from pros to people painting their first mini . . . ever.</div>
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And we were off! One of the hardest parts was using somebody else's paints, which had been in storage since last KublaCon. Everybody has their own mixes and preferred colors for shading, highlighting and washing, none of which were available here. Nor were said paints in the dropper bottles used by Reaper, Vallejo, and so forth - which allow for ready mixing. It was old-school with the linked acrylic paints you get in model kits for kids.</div>
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Quite a bit of fun. And not a bad bit of work, if I do say so myself:<br />
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I'm quite proud of his bright blue eye, the slight gold tinge to his teeth (good old Goblo-Orcish dentistry there!), and the use of "bubble gum pink" and "melon" on his bracelet. The leatherwork came out rather well, too (raw and burnt umber, IIRC). I came in third, with an invite for the 6PM Sunday Masterclass SpeedPainting! contest.<br />
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Onward!<br />
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<b>Friday 6PM <u>Guinegate, 1479 - DBA 3.0 Big Battle:</u></b><br />
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<i>Late 15th century battle between France and Austria. DBA 3.0 Big Battle rules with 15mm figures.</i></blockquote>
I'm a long-time DBA player, but hadn't had the chance to play the new(ish) 3.0 rules yet. Guingate was part of the Wars of the Burgundian Succession, and an interesting scenario. Both the French and the Habsburgs had two wings of knights and lots of artillery. The Habsburg center were pikemen, the French center the franc-archers. I had the French left wing, artillery, knights (always pronounced k-nigh-its), and a stand of dismounted men-at-arms.<br />
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My artillerists pretty clearly ate their Wheaties, rolling hot to destroy the Habsburg artillery in counterbattery fire, then tear up their supporting crossbowmen, then defeat the Habsburg pike in melee (must have been a double load of canister!). Rolling a lot of sixes helps. I suppose I actually have to pay them now . . . <br />
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My knights charged up the hill, soundly thrashed their Habsburg opponents, watched them flee toward the river in their rear, ready the pursuit, and look to the right to see the rest of the French army broken and streaming from the field. <i>L'oops!</i> <br />
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<span id="goog_1916317998">Sadly, I didn't take any photos, but I did win a coloring book:</span><br />
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<b><span id="goog_1916317998"> Saturday, 9AM <u>Battle Of Morleia, 1863 - The Sword and the Flame:</u></span></b><br />
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<span id="goog_1916317998"><i>A little-known battle. The Republicans mass assault a Conservative held town during the<br />Maximillian Adventure in Mexico. “Victoria o Muerte!”</i> </span></blockquote>
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This was the game I had come to play. I love colonials, and The Sword and the Flame is always an absolute blast to play. I am a serious fan of Science vs. Pluck, have played a whole host of enjoyable Plains Wars games with a homebrew ruleset, and naturally have my own ideas on one, but The Sword and the Flame is the granddaddy of them all. Colonials brings in an element of roleplaying that is often lacking in other periods, and that is a major appeal. <br />
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We were playing at more of the "800 Fighting Englishmen" scale, where a unit was a regiment, but it worked. I had the cavalry and two infantry brigades, tasked with taking the city's outskirts past the aqueduct and pushing into the city's flank.<br />
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The advance was . . . ragged. My cavalry and machete armed militia were keen to get to grips with the Maxamillians (routinely maxing out the movement dice), while the regular infantry sort of brought up the rear (what can you do when you roll 2 ones on 2d6?). With the Maximilians armed with modern rifles and in Category IV cover, there really wasn't much to do but close as fast as possible.<br />
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A great cheer went up as we took the first building in hand-to-hand combat. One militia unit was almost completely wiped out by defensive fire, only a brave seniorita and the Mexican flag surviving the hail of lead to make it to the first floor door.<br />
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With the Maximilian artillery still holding out on the roof of the white building, a further push was needed. Militia dashed across the narrow street into the basement of the white building. French sappers (boo!) tossed grenades in through the courtyard and followed up.<br />
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All to no avail. The French held the building.<br />
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Up came the cavalry, lead by their valiant brigadier, to charge the
barricades and guns closing the streets. Hey, it works in the movies.
Demolishing one barricade, a gray-clad regiment of Mexicans charge in.
Vile <i>contra-guerillas </i>clatter through the streets to meet them. The Brigadier draws his sword and pistol . . .<br />
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Fierce fighting in the narrow streets. The lead lancer goes down, then another one. The Brigadier kills his first man, then his second, then the colonel of the <i>contra-guerillas! </i>A fourth falls, then a fifth.<br />
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Calamity! A vile <i>contra-guerilla</i> skewers the Brigadier, and he falls to the ground, dead (bad time to roll a one, slick).<br />
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Pressing on, the Lancers rout off the rest of the <i>contra-guerillas, </i>ready to charge the commander of Moriela itself in the rear . . . and fail to close. (bad time to forget you had a reroll!)<br />
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Ultimately, the cavalry pressed through both streets, aided by the capture of several buildings on the other side of the canal. Note the Maximilians still hold all three of the outbuildings, it being very difficult to survive defensive fire with small, shot up units, and even harder to kill the key figures with musketry.<br />
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<b>Saturday, 3PM <u>Rage of the Monsters! - Giant Monster Rampage:</u></b></div>
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This looked like a fun game. Who doesn't like giant monsters and destroying poor defenseless cities . . . erm, urban renewal?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poor defenseless city</td></tr>
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Ultimately, I gave up my spot so a little girl and her dad could hop in. After all, who doesn't want to encourage new blood in the hobby? Walking by from time to time, it certainly looked like people were having fun, and the city pretty much in ruins.<br />
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<b>Sunday, 10AM <u>DBA Tournament - DBA 3.0:</u></b><br />
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<i>De Bellis Antiquitatis 3.0 Tournament (15mm). Bring your own armies, but there will be many armies provided as well. Come and try out the new version of this classic quick play Ancient Rules.</i></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Later Polish - As taken, 4x3Kn, 4x3Cav, 2x8Cb, 2x2Lh</td></tr>
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This was both fun and a disappointment.<br />
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Fun because I liked what I had seen of DBA 3.0 on Friday, and had a beautifully painted Later Polish army on loan from the gamemaster to play with.<br />
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Disappointing because there were very few other players. I ended up doing best 2 out of 3 with a player fielding Teutonic Knights (boo!), and one or two people joined in later with some Classical Greek armies. <br />
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The Later Polish army was fun, but had one serious problem - the knights. In DBA, if a knight wins a combat, they must follow-up. Inevitably, if you don't roll high enough in melee, that results in pushing the enemy back just enough so that one stand of knights penetrates, gets doubly-overlapped, and killed when you equally inevitably, roll a 1.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fatal scrum with the Teutonic Knights</td></tr>
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Which is pretty much what happened. As the defender (Aggression 1 means you're almost always the defender against a high aggression army), you get to set up the terrain. One item I picked is the infamous Barker river, which can be paltry (1-2 on a d6), slow things down (3-4 on a d6), or slow things down and aid the defenders (a 5-6 on a d6).<br />
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Seeing the Teutonic knights hung up on the river, I sensed opportunity. We charged down off the hill in the bend, caught them in the water, pushed them across, and then promptly died as the fatal overlaps kicked in.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you mean, don't roll I?</td></tr>
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Game 2, I replaced the river with a built-up-area, garrisoned it with crossbows, and readied for the inevitable clash.<br />
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Fewer photos this time, but it pretty much played out the same way. My Polish knights would defeat their Teutonic counterparts, driving them back but not killing them. Once stuck into the Teutonic ranks, I'd roll an I (I was using roman numeral dice) and die.<br />
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So, two 4-3 victories to the Teutonic Knights, for a 2-0 result overall. DBA 3.0 is quite different from DBA 2.2, and well worth purchasing and dusting off my armies.<br />
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<b>Sunday 3PM <u>Battle of Gettysburg - Little Round Top - This Hallowed Ground v2.1:</u></b><br />
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<i>The fighting at the Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg was made famous by the actions of the 20th Maine. Complete with that action, and the action around Devil’s Den, can the Confederate army push the Union flank?</i></blockquote>
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This was the last of seven games put on by a gaming group out of Fremont, CA. Consistently, they had the best looking games at the Con, and you can read their summary (and drool over the photos) at <a href="http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.com/2017/05/kulbacon-2017-show-report.html" target="_blank">Jay's Wargaming Madness</a>. The rules were a simple but realistic homebrew they've been using for a while, and have in Napoleonic and Civil War flavors. Here, a unit was a battalion, regiment, or battery and players push a brigade. Most battles handle a division, and they have a pretty good little morale system.<br />
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I hadn't been able to get into their modern, Napoleonic or Pickett's Charge and McPherson's Ridge games, but by Sunday night, with the Con winding down, I saw a seat available and snapped it up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">20th ME, 83rd PA, 44th NY and 16th MI</td></tr>
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The scenario was a compressed part of the fighting on the Union Left Flank on Day 2 of Gettysburg.<br />
I was handed Vincent's Brigade (3rd Brigade, 1st Division, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_Corps_%28Union_Army%29" title="V Corps (Union Army)">V Corps</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Potomac" title="Army of the Potomac">Army of the Potomac</a>,) and given the end of the Union line, told to hold Little Round Top.<br />
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Massed on Big Round Top were five Confederate regiments, from two different brigades. Half the Confederates (Hood's Texans), pushed across the valley into the Devil's Den. Three regiments decided to slow down and deploy for a musketry duel with my brigade. Snug behind fat rocks on high ground, and with an extra regiment and battery in my favor, I decided to oblige them.<br />
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The rules are generally a bucket of dice game, with lots of d6 rolled for firing or melee (number based on formation), with attendant saves and modifiers. Morale is basically rolling higher than the number of casualties you've taken. Depending on how shot up you are, you may have to check to see if you obey orders.<br />
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Simple, easy to learn, lots of fun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colonel Vincent's view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A more God's eye view of the action</td></tr>
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Fortunately, I had purchased quite a few dVI from the Chessex booth at the Dealer's Hall. Given the academic bents of both Vincent and Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, using the Roman Numeral dice seemed apropos. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing like a bit of crass commercialism between games</td></tr>
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Lots of IV, V and VI (needed for hits and passing morale) and V and VI (needed to make saves) followed, and soon the Confederate regiments were shot up.<br />
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At this point, the game master passed by and handed me a new miniature. He hadn't mentioned it in the pregame brief, because none of the playtesting had born it out, but there was a special Chamberlain rule, allowing me to reroll tests to charge and morale checks for one turn.<br />
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With the Rebs faltering and pulling back, it seemed time. Especially since the Devil's Den had fallen, and the Confederates were pushing the other Union forces back to the swamp. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BAYONETS!!!!!!</td></tr>
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The Chamberlain miniature was mostly for the photographs. The few Confederates left mostly pulled back, and their departure from the field was hastened by a few volleys of musketry fire. But the timely move up Big Round Top secured us ten victory points, holding Little Round Top netted five more, and the three Confederate regiments leaving secured another three, contributing eighteen to the overall Union score of twenty-four. With the Confederates securing the Devil's Den and chewing up the Union forces there, it was a draw, 28 (Confederate) to 24 (Union), or pretty much how it turned out historically.<br />
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Plus, it was a beautiful game - beautifully painted miniatures on absolutely beautiful terrain. Exactly what I needed to inspire me to get back to painting.<br />
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So that was KublaCon. In the week since, I have finished up another few miniatures for my Colonials, and am itching to get back to my Plains Wars collection. Also, I need to get one of those teddy bear mats.<br />
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Huzzah!</div>
Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-85817524085329701292016-09-18T23:55:00.003-04:002016-09-18T23:55:50.862-04:00'e's not dead yet, sahr!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBwtdUowWhLR0ACoIHDYd3j3G9Q6GFUqyTWT-bBw2UD0duwFkPL5Qj-8qxYNVLCgSFNxmnYH_UQ91BkuZp4koa_Yrybk0HTa6auiLZ9tMyLXglvmA0gW7ZWS3CMriZejFoudkiPizLos/s1600/Safari+into+Danger%2521.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBwtdUowWhLR0ACoIHDYd3j3G9Q6GFUqyTWT-bBw2UD0duwFkPL5Qj-8qxYNVLCgSFNxmnYH_UQ91BkuZp4koa_Yrybk0HTa6auiLZ9tMyLXglvmA0gW7ZWS3CMriZejFoudkiPizLos/s400/Safari+into+Danger%2521.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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<i>Posted this day, somewhere in Equatoria, September the Sixteenth, the Year One Thousand, Eight-Hundred Eighty Nine, to the Right Honorable General Sir Bertram Erskine Churchill Wellseley Gough-Smith, secretary of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Military Haberdashery and Sartorial Elegance,</i></blockquote>
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<i>Oberleutnant von Prince, Tom really is a stand up chap, has brought word that rumors of my demise, or worse, have been circulating London of late. Why Sir Evelyn Cresswell even had the audacity to propose that the Carleton vacate my suite and have my belongings sent to that good-for-nothing nephew of mine. The Sales and Wynne's must have been beside themselves, though they should know that my dearest Agnes, having faced down Pathan savages at the age of six, has nothing to fear from anything in our sojourn across the Dark Continent. Quite the opposite, in fact! I say we shant see the likes of those cannibals again.</i></div>
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<i>Do not let Willie waver in the slightest. Blue, red, even grey and that benighted khaki are out, and green is in. If it's good enough for Napier and Wolseley, it's good enough for me, and more than good enough for the whole German Army! Now's not the time to get wobbly, fearing that my being eaten by a crocodile or trampled by an elephant means Cossacks rampaging down the streets of Berlin! Bosh and twaddle, poppycock even! I'll have you know a man can be nigh invisible to even the keenest eye and trustiest rifle in green, yet still cut a dashing figure with the ladies, not that I need that with my darling Agnes at my side these many years. Yes, I know the Old Boy is set on blue, or white, or aquamarine for all I know, but press him on the green!</i></blockquote>
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<i>Pass on my compliments to the Sirdar, and yes, I shall take up the colonelcy in the Egyptian Lancers he is keen to invest me with, lest Her Majesty need my own, humble services. I look forward to another spot of action, and am sure my experiences in Equatoria shall provide him with the most useful understanding of the Mahdists thereabout. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Agnes and I look forward to the pleasure of your hospitality, and the conviviality of the Club, upon our return to England.</i></blockquote>
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For those not in the know, Lord Percy was one of the most valiant members of the British Empire. Born in 1832, he lived to the ripe old age of ninety-nine, recording amongst his crowning achievements the exploration of Equatoria, the settling of Kenya, being the first into Ulundi, Kabul, Kandahar, Ismalia, Cairo, Omdurman, Khartoum, Ladysmith and Pretoria, and foremost advocate of what he steadfastly never called "field gray," adopted by the German Empire in 1908. Though his active service days were over, in his capacity as President of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Military Haberdashery and Sartorial Elegance, he was consulted heavily by Lord Haldane on the reforms of the British Army and establishment of the Expeditionary Force.</div>
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Of the two, Lady Agnes was the most formidable of the pair. A niece of Florentina Sale, the "Grenadier in Petticoats," Lady Agnes survived both the siege and evacuation of the British Cantonment in Kabul, defeating furious afghans only through force of personality and her steely gaze, formidable even at the tender age of six. Meeting Sir Percy during the Great Mutiny, she followed him throughout his many exploits and adventures. One of the few items of concordance between the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Wolseley and Lord Roberts was the worth of Lady Agnes in the Order of Battle, though the Duke of Cambridge rated her the worth of a Brigade of Guards, while Lord Roberts felt her gaze was more that of reserve artillery. </div>
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<i>Highly places sources in both the War Office and Horse Guards report that the Mahdi is dispatching additional forces to Equatoria, or perhaps Dongola. More Jihadiyya, in the service of that most modern of Mahdist generals, who's infamy is such we shall not sully our paper with his vile name, can only spell additional trouble for those seeking to restore the suzerainty of Her Majesty and soundly thrash the Murders of Gordon not members of Parliament.</i></div>
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Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-83719504564793307022015-12-19T17:24:00.001-05:002015-12-19T17:26:42.324-05:00Tis the season . . . <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. . . for the annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every year, this inspires me to dust off some space, pull the paints and minis out of the boxes they're in, and try to make some kind of progress. This year is no different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've set the very modest goal of 200 points, which I achieved in the 4th Challenge, and failed miserably in the 5th. Dire threats have been made about feet and fire here for the VI Challenge. It being Romanesque theme of 'game changers', the use of Latin numerals seemed appropriate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rules, regulations, and other whatnot can be found by clicking the die on the right. As usual, we have the following bonus themes:</span></span><br />
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as previous years, we will have a series of thematic Bonus Rounds.
Each Bonus Round asks Challengers to enter a submission that
illustrates a particular theme. <u>The Bonus Rounds are not mandatory</u>,
they are just a little bit of fun to pace out the the Challenge and
allow people to gain some points and fame through presenting vignettes and specific single figures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those
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scales less than 15mm will be eligible for the Theme Bonus Rounds but <u>they can be of a historical or fictional subject</u>.</span></span></div>
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Given holiday plans and other commitments, I probably won't make the 3rd. My preliminary plan is to paint and submit a 1/2400 HMS <i>Dreadnought </i>for either the nautical or risk taker themes, she being the most famous nautical game changer out there. Since the Curtgeld this round is a 25/28mm Gambler/Risk-Taker, that's an automatic Bonus Theme submission.<br />
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I have always been fond of the Lace Wars. We originally played using <a href="https://canuckwargamer.wordpress.com/habitants-and-highlanders/" target="_blank">Habitants and Highlanders</a>,
which is a Canadian Wargamers Group ruleset for the Seven Years War in
America. Despite that, it's proved to be readily adaptable to the more
cavalry-heavy battlefields of Europe. The only real need was new morale
ratings. We originally began with somebody's French and Allied collections, and then I acquired a sizable
collection of Old Glory 15mm Russians and Prussians. <br />
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If you like the SYW and don't have this, go buy the PDF. Shoo, off with you now! The book contains a history of the war in North America, a campaign generator, skirmish and big battle rules. What I especially like about them are how you have an uncertain time factor driven by customizable action decks, and how they're readily amenable to upscaling. <br />
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Other rulesets followed. We played a lot of Age of Honor's Fire and Fury, focusing on the War of Austrian Succession in Italy, with Austrians, French, Spanish, Neopolitans, and all that jazz. Since I didn't really have figures for the period, mine sat in a box. I slowly began expanding the Prussians, painting lots of cuirassier, since I desperately needed cavalry for the Prussian contingent.<br />
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Köingkrieg followed. I became heavily involved in both the rules-testing and the development of Russian orders of battle. My figures cane out of the box, and more were purchased or added. Trolling through orders of battle at the <a href="http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">Seven Years War Project</a>, I settled on <a href="http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1759-07-23_-_Battle_of_Paltzig" target="_blank">Paltzig/Kay</a> and began expanding.<br />
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Unfortunately, things never were quite right. All these rule sets use large figure ratios. Habitants and Highlanders and Königkrieg are all 1/50, while Age of Honor is 1/90ish (4 infantry figures per stand, one stand representing 360 men, 2 cavalry per stand, representing 180 men). None really give the right visual scope for infantry, since battalions are twelve figures, max. Cavalry regiments are similarly small. The scales precluded fielding cavalry by squadron, since the units would be 4 or less. With cavalry regiments, you don't really get the same feel you do with squadrons, where it's a nail-biting, feed 'em in and pray. You also find the smaller regiments (like a French or British one of 2 squadrons) heavily overpowered by a five squadron Prussian one, despite the greater ease of handling six vice ten or fifteen squadrons!<br />
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I'd played several 28mm games, where larger (30 man) units were used, and the felt much better. The <a href="http://leagueofaugsburg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">League of Augsburg</a>, <a href="http://altefritz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jim Purky</a>, and especially <a href="http://olicanalad.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">James Roach</a> have spectacular displays. Though, being 28mm, battles were much smaller in scope. Budget, time, and having lots of 15mms already, investing in 28mm figures at 30+per battalion just isn't feasible. Wanting the best of both worlds, I've decided to return to Habitants and Highlanders, since it is my favorite rule set, and expand my 15mms again. While designed for 1/50, the rule mechanics will work just as well with more figures per unit. The fire factors and morale rules scale with unit size anyway, and it's designed to take up to 24 figures per unit, perhaps even more.<br />
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However, scaling rears it's ugly head once again. A Prussian battalion is 5 companies (4 for grenadiers), at 140 men per company. At 1/20, that translates to 7 figures on a 1"x1" or 1"x1.25" base. But a cavalry squadron of 165, at 1/20, is only 8 figures. On the same frontage (a squadron occupied the same, or more, ground as an infantry battalion), you'd lose the boot to boot look I want for my horse. So I've decided to go to a 1/10 for cavalry, and a 1/20 for infantry. Artillery will be 4 gunners per base (1"x1" or 1"x1.25") for battalion guns, and 8 gunners on 2"x3" for <br />
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So, for the challenge, my main focus is expanding my Seven years War collection. Fortunately, lots of 15mms were glued to popsicle sticks, primed, and then set aside to await painting, so not much prep work is needed. <br />
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<b><i>Editorial comment: I stuck my challenge plans post into the "draft" folder to switch computers,</i><i> since the photos I wanted to use were not on my main desktop. </i><i>Since
then, my challenge plans have been overcome by events. I was offered
and accepted a job on the other side of the North American continent,
with a move right smack dab in the middle of the Challenge. Needless to
say, I have had to seriously rethink how to do this, and whether I will
have the time to get paints out of storage, paint, then repack to load
on a truck the start of February. Instead, I may just be a mad, mad
painter the last month.</i></b>Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-72054873932948938082015-01-24T14:43:00.000-05:002015-01-24T14:43:19.446-05:00First Challenge Submission Completed<div style="text-align: justify;">
Per Curt's 24hr publication embargo with respect to personal blogs, my first bit of challenge material has been photographed and submitted. All the gory details of who, what and how can be seen at the <a href="http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/from-robh-opening-salvo-12400-wwi.html" target="_blank">Challenge Blog site</a>.</div>
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Otherwise, painting progress continues, as I struggle to attain 200pts by March 20.Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-76595267532352671252015-01-02T16:54:00.000-05:002015-01-02T16:57:09.559-05:00Saturday(ish) Paint Table 1-2-14: Future Fifth Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge EntriesWell, the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is almost a month old, and nothing has officially been submitted. Now, this would be a problem, except for the following:<br />
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<li>I'm only trying to beat my measley 200 points personal challenge, not win the whole enchilada</li>
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<li>I am easily distracted</li>
<li>I lost two weeks of December with the Ear Infection from Hell</li>
<li>I am in a challenge to paint up 250 points of naval items - eep!</li>
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So, with the caveats and addendums aside, I have made some spectacular progress at getting things to the 3/4ths done phase:<br />
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Now, not all of this is Challenge eligible (having been started way before the 5th of November). But it does give you a good idea of what I am working on!<br />
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At the bottom left, the expansions for my 1/2400 WWI collection:<br />
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We have 2 British dreadnoughts (HMS <i>Hercules</i> and HMS <i>Colossus</i>), both of which are 1/2400 GHQs and were started pre-challenge. They're beautiful models, but all that detail can make them a bear to paint. In front of them are 4 Viking Forge German <i>G-101</i> class destroyers. These are the exact opposite of the GHQs - very little detail, which also makes them a bear to paint, and not much fun. To the right are a happy medium - 3 wtj 1/2400 <i>Braunschweig</i>-class predreadnoughts. wtj does rapid-prototyped plastic, and they are a nice compromise between detail and paintability - even if I did have to scratchbuild masts. There are some problems with the lictgrau I painted the superstructure with, but otherwise I am rather pleased.</div>
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Here we have four West Wind nuns, a Foundry African woman I am painting as a postulant, and three purchases from North Star: their tea time figure for the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War, a Artizan officer from the same time period, and then their Captain Napier of their In Her Majesty's Name steampunk line. The officers will end up on the Brigade Staff (my Victorian Entry), while the other ladies will be the nuns of the <a href="http://home.deds.nl/~cps/preciousblood/history.html" target="_blank">Missionnary Sisters of the Precious Blood</a>, a Trappist religious order in South and East Africa in the 1880s. </div>
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The Bishop is going to be part of my 28mm ECW collection. Specifically, he's going to be General the Bishop Harbottle Y. Grimstone, commander of the forces of Parliament in the County of Scruttockshire. If those names are familiar, they are the Parlimentarian Commander from Charles Grant's <i>Wargame Tactics</i> and the county used for the campaign in Wargames Foundry's <i>1644</i> rule set. Despite his episcopal mitre, he's a fire and brimstone Puritan, severe in his faith and dealings with the ungodly and dressed accordingly. His entourage so far, are equally grim - the trooper in back and breastplate and single bar helmet, and trumpeter on foot with his arms crossed in judgment. The other ECW figures will be troopers of Sir William Waller's regiment of dragoons.</div>
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Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-23849666830340748782014-11-30T11:25:00.001-05:002014-11-30T11:26:23.377-05:00And we're back!It's time for the Fifth Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.<br />
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Just what I need to get out of the no-painting rut and the no-blogging rut!<br />
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Goal: 200 points!<br />
Side duel: 1st to 250 points of warships of various kinds.<br />
Preparations: TOP SECRET!<br />
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<i>Remember, Remember!</i>Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-79260422650918833252014-03-24T01:19:00.002-04:002014-03-24T01:22:24.648-04:00Expanding the Library, not the Lead Pile - the Challenge Economics.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Curt has recently posted some <i>interesting </i><a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.com/2014/03/miles-challenge-statistics-lead.html" target="_blank">statistics</a> about the economic impetus of the recently completed I've been pretty good about restraining my purchase impulse during the Challenge. The only figures I purchased were a set of Foundry Darkest Africa European Ladies Two off ebay, rebranded as Roses of the Empire - DA018:</div>
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Terrain and base purchases were a bit more extravagant. I bought 60 2mmx25mm diameter and 20 3mmx30mm diameter slotted bases from Warbases, along with a bunch of their counters to use for missile salvo markers in Silent Death and Full Thrust. I also bought one of their Long Walls from the Middle Eastern range. It's a bit thin for anything but a building wall, but it's inexpensive, ships well, fit together nicely and with a textured spray paint, wash and dry brush will look splendid.</div>
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I also purchased a 28mm domed Middle Eastern building off ebay. It's roughly three stories, with two balconies/verandahs, and the option of either a dome or a flat roof. I am setting up to do mostly skirmishish (1 snuffy figure represents roughly two real snuffies, and "heroes" are 1:1), so buildings that allow figure placement inside them are essential. </div>
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I also purchased two Ziterdes Desert Sanctuaries (for about half retail) off Amazon. Unfortunately, they're one piece castings, so they'll have to serve as towers and impenetrable areas. I'm thinking of making a compound with four of them, connected by some Warbases walls.</div>
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But the main expenditures have been in books (and paying off that pesky library fine, because they expect the damn things back). The following recently arrived from Amazon:</div>
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<li><u>Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War</u> ~ John H. Waller</li>
<li><u>Donald Featherstone's Wargaming Campaigns</u> ~ John Curry</li>
<li><u>Donald Featherstone's Solo Wargaming</u> ~ John Curry </li>
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The following are also on order:<br />
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<li><u>Richard Simkin's Uniforms of the British Army: The Cavalry Regiments</u> ~ W. Y. Carman</li>
<li><u>The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns (Cambridge Classical Studies)</u> ~ Bezalel Bar-Kochva</li>
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Half-Price Books also made the mistake of issuing a 50% off coupon, and it was promptly pillaged. I <i>think</i> the building is still standing, but don't hold me to it. The haul:<br />
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<li><u>Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire</u> ~ Robin Waterfield</li>
<li><u>The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium</u> ~ David Potter</li>
<li><u>That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present</u> ~ Robert and Isabelle Tombs</li>
<li><u>Fusiliers: Eight Years with the Redcoats in America</u> ~ Mark Urban</li>
<li><u>Napoleon's Immortals: The Imperial Guard and its Battles, 1804-1815</u> ~ Andrew Uffindell</li>
<li><u>Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean Since 1800</u> ~ Robert Holland</li>
<li><u>The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another</u> ~ W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello</li>
<li><u>The Afghan Way of War: How and Why They Fight</u> ~ Robert Johnson</li>
<li><u>Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War</u> ~ Stephen Platt</li>
<li><u>Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848</u> ~ Joseph Wheelan</li>
<li><u>Hero of Beecher Island: The Life and Military Career of George A. Forsyth</u> ~ David Dixon</li>
<li><u>The Wilderness Campaign</u> ~ Gary W. Gallagher, Ed</li>
<li><u>Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918</u> ~ James Barr</li>
<li><u>Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with the Hundred Faces</u> ~ Harry Ferguson</li>
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I also passed on a few books about the Victorians and Dickensian London. In retrospect, they were both possibly worthy purchases, and I may snap them up later. Generally, I prefer hardbacks to paperbacks - they last better, and travel better.<br />
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So that's my contributions to the wargaming economy during Challenge-Time. Anything picked up at the SYW convention this weekend will be counted separately.<br />
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My fourth submission to Curt's <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-robh-28mm-indian-wars-survivor-of.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Fourth Painting Challenge</a> was Comanche, one of the few survivors of Custer's Battalion (C, E, F, I and L Companies, 7th Cavalry) at the Battle of Little Bighorn.</div>
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My 7th Cavalry work is as extensively researched as I can get. I try to pick figures that match the descriptions and photos of the men of the 7th. I consult <a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Died-With-Custer-Soldiers%C2%92/dp/0806135077" target="_blank">They Died With Custer: Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-History-Custers-Last-Battle/dp/0806124962/ref=pd_sim_b_47?ie=UTF8&refRID=0J8H6F2V56NN8Q72QNDM" target="_blank">Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Men-Custer-Biographies-Cavalry-June/dp/B0012KS5AE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1395444861&sr=8-2&keywords=Men+With+Custer%3A+Biographies+of+the+7th+Cavalry" target="_blank">Men with Custer: Biographies of the 7th Cavalry : June 25, 1876</a> looking for descriptions of skin color, hair color, stature, date of enlistment and service record before I do any painting. Comanche was no exception.</div>
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Comanche was purchased for $90, the going rate for Army remount purchases. He was captured somewhere on the southern Great Palins, taken to St. Louis, and sold to the Army. He went through breaking in at the remount station, then was shipped to Ft. Leavenworth, and part of a batch of 41 horses selected by LT Tom Custer for the 7th. At Ellis Station, he was selected as the personal mount of Capt Myles Keogh.</div>
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How Comanche got his name is unknown. From <a href="http://www.garryowen.com/comanche2.htm" target="_blank">Garryowen.com</a>:<br />
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There is some controversy as to how Comanche got his name. The most widely accepted story is that on September 13, 1868 Capt Keogh was involved in a skirmish with a band of Comanche Indians. During the fight the horse was wounded by an arrow in the right hind quarter. The arrow was later removed, and the wound healed. After the battle, a trooper who witnessed the incident claimed that when the arrow struck, the horse "yelled just like a Comanche" If this were true, then Comanche would have been in Keogh's possession for over four months without having been assigned a name. This seems to be an unlikely scenario, as just with a newborn infant, a name or method of identifying the child is quickly established. Another story might explain the naming delay. So it goes, Keogh was on a scouting mission near Fort Larned, Kansas. During a skirmish with the Comanches, Keogh's horse was killed. Supposedly his Lt. dismounted one of the enlisted men and turned the mount over to Keogh, who kept the horse from that point on. The horse was then named Comanche, and became Keogh's favorite mount from that point on. It is stated that at that time, with the exception of the officers' horses, it was not customary to give names to cavalry horses.</blockquote>
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Comanche missed many of the major battles of the 7th before the Little Bighorn Campaign. In 1867, Keogh served as the CO of Fort Wallace. During the Washita campaign, Keogh was on the staff of BGEN Alfred Sully. Keogh and Comanche were at Fort Totten, assigned to the International Boundary Commission, and was on leave for the 1874 Yellowstone expedition. After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Comanche was found on the battlefield, put on the <i>Far West</i> with the rest of the 7th Cavalry's wounded, and nursed back to health at Fort Abraham Lincoln.<br />
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In 1878, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Sturgis" target="_blank">Col Samuel Sturgis</a>, the commander of the 7th, put Comanche on retired status:<br />
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"Headquarters Seventh United States Cavalry, Fort A. Lincoln, D. T., April 10th, 1878. General Orders No. 7.<br />
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(1.) The horse known as 'Comanche,' being the only living representative of the bloody tragedy of the Little Big Horn, June 25th, 1876, his kind treatment and comfort shall be a matter of special pride and solicitude on the part of every member of the Seventh Cavalry to the end that his life be preserved to the utmost limit. Wounded and scarred as he is, his very existence speaks in terms more eloquent than words, of the desperate struggle against overwhelming numbers of the hopeless conflict and the heroic manner in which all went down on that fatal day.<br />
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(2.) The commanding officer of Company I will see that a special and comfortable stable is fitted up for him, and he will not be ridden by any person whatsoever, under any circumstances, nor will he be put to any kind of work.<br />
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(3.) Hereafter, upon all occasions of ceremony of mounted regimental formation, 'Comanche,' saddled, bridled, and draped in mourning, and led by a mounted trooper of Company I, will be paraded with the regiment.<br />
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By command of Col. Sturgis, E. A. Garlington, First Lieutenant and Adjutant, Seventh Cavalry." </blockquote>
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The reasons for Col. Sturgis' order may have been as much to bring peace to his household as much to honor Comanche. Supposedly, one of Col Sturgis' daughters convinced Comanche's keeper to let her ride him. Later, the daughter of another officer also prevailed upon Comanche's keeper to allow a ride, which enraged Col. Sturgis' daughter that her special status had been breached.</div>
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After Col. Sturgis' order, Comanche was interviewed by the <i>Bismarck Tribune. </i>Comanche would answer with a toss of his head, a stamp of his foot, or a swish of his tail. His keeper at the time, Farrier John Rivers, answered more fully: <br />
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Comanche was a veteran, 21 years old, and had been with the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Cavalry" title="7th Cavalry">7th Cavalry</a>
since its Organization in '66.... He was found by Sergeant [Milton J.]
DeLacey [Co. I] in a ravine where he had crawled, there to die and feed
the Crows. He was raised up and tenderly cared for. His wounds were
serious, but not necessarily fatal if properly looked after...He carries
seven scars from as many bullet wounds. There are four back of the
foreshoulder, one through a hoof, and one on either hind leg. On the
Custer battlefield (actually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Fort Abraham Lincoln">Fort Abraham Lincoln</a>)
three of the balls were extracted from his body and the last one was
not taken out until April '77…Comanche is not a great horse, physically
talking; he is of medium size, neatly put up, but quite noble looking.
He is very gentle. His color is '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_gene" title="Dun gene">claybank</a>' He would make a handsome carriage horse... </blockquote>
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Comanche served with the regiment during their time at Fort Meade, and with the Regiment when they moved to Fort Riley. He had the freedom of the post, would form up with Company I during parades, and was named the Regiment's "Second Commanding Officer." He formed a bond with his keeper, Pvt Gustave Korn, and they became inseparable - with Comanche even leaving the post to go look for Korn, if Korn had not returned to the post in time for nightly feeding. Here's where Comanche's story takes the sad turn. Korn was killed at the Battle of Wounded Knee, and Comanche never recovered. He lingered on through 1891, until dying of colic - or, perhaps, a broken heart. The members of the Seventh were devastated, and Comanche remains one of two horses given a funeral with full military honors.<br />
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Comanche was supposed to be my entry for the casualties bonus round, but I wasn't pleased with the paint job. There were a few paint bubbles - which have plagued me the entire competition - and some bits where the paint didn't take. So I waited, and submitted him on his own. </div>
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There is a dearth of horse holder options for the Plains Wars, so I have
been forced to use ones for the ACW. The horse furniture is close
enough, and probably accurate for the 1860s and 1870s. The uniforms of
the horse holders, mounted (Perry) or dismounted (Sash and Saber) are in
the low-cut shell jacket worn by cavalry in the Civil War and the 1860s
and early 1870s as Civil War stocks were expended. By 1876, most US
Cavalrymen would be wearing tunics. More problematic is that both
mounted and dismounted figures carry their sabers, which were expressly
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I ended up choosing a Sash and Saber horse for Comanche for two reasons. First, I chose the Sash and Saber horse specifically for the military bearing the horse sculpt has - tall chest out, proud eyes, front, standing tall. Second, Perry Miniatures are wonderful sculpts, but they have MAJOR issues with flash and clean-up.</div>
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Comanche was described as a claybank in his interview with the <i>Bismarck Tribune</i>, but his official description labels him a "buckskin:"</div>
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Name: Comanche<br />
Age: 6 years(25 years at time of transfer)<br />
Height: 15 hands<br />
Weight: 925 pounds<br />
Color: Buckskin<br />
Condition: Unserviceable<br />
Date of Purchase: April 3, 1868<br />
By Whom: (left blank)<br />
Cost: $90.00<br />
Purchased: St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Remarks: excused from all duties per G.O. No. 7 April 10, 1878. Ridden by CPT Keogh in Battle of Little Bighorn River, M.T. June 25, 1876 </div>
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However, buckskin is too light to match with the photographs. He's also referred to as a "light bay" and a "buckskin dun." I ended up using Reaper's Olive Skin Shadow for most of his hide, and Reaper Earth Brown where he darkens in the leg, his mane and tail. I then washed him with Vallejo's Sephia Wash to get the proper darkening, and I think I nailed it. It certainly looks very good, and I'll keep that in the repertoire, along with other brown and chestnut/red leather paint schemes I use for bay and chestnut horses.<br />
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While the saddle bags/bundles look very sky blue in the pictures, they're actually Foundry Tomb Blue 23B over Delta Ceramicoat Sky Blue, and highlighted with a pale grey blue. Though the kersey is supposed to be darker, I like the faded, sun-bleached look, with just a hint of gray. All leatherwork is black, highlighted with a 1-1 mix of black and Vallejo salmon rose. Saddle blankets and canteen are Delta Ceramicoat Charcoal Gray, highlighted with Hippo Gray. All are the same mixes I use with other members of the 7th Cavalry.</div>
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Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-69913496106392128182014-03-15T12:28:00.000-04:002014-03-16T01:26:12.972-04:00Painting Table Saturday - #1Well, I caved to the current wargaming blogger fad: Paint Table Saturday.<br />
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It's a good filler post as the Challenge winds down. My painting counter (the apartment is small, so instead of a dedicated gaming room or basement, I have a dedicated slice of counter) is quite a bit of a mess. It's got the Mahdists I'm struggling to finish, a reaper Zulu War British colonel, some spaceships, some Foundry African civilians I need the right village for later, and lots of minis I have purchased that I have held-off rebasing or reworking since they don't count for the Challenge.</div>
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Tomorrow should have a post about Comanche, the Second Commanding Officer of the 7th Cavalry, and then I'm off for a week's vacation, and the Seven Years War Convention games the 28th/29th.</div>
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This is my third entry to the Fourth Analogue Painting Challenge, for the favorite character round: Chief Buffalo Hump, of the Comanche.</div>
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Buffalo Hump is both a historical figure, and a character in the last novel of Larry McMurtree's <u>Lonesome Dove</u> series, <u>Comanche Moon.</u> He was a chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche. By Buffalo Hump's time, the Penateka were "a decayed and degenerate" (quoting S. C. Gwynne's <u>Empire of the Summer Moon</u>) version of their Comanche cousins of the Staked Plains. They lived on the frontiers of Texan society, both ravaged by and benefiting from their contact with American and Mexican Texan settlers. Cholera and smallpox ravaged their ranks, and settlement reduced their hunting grounds, while they became dependent upon settlers for their very livelihoods.</div>
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Buffalo Hump's name was <b>Po-cha-na-quar-hip</b>; if properly translated, it meant "erection that won't go down." S. C. Gwynne puts the mistranslation down to white prudishness. Before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_House_Fight" target="_blank">Council House Fight</a>, Buffalo Hump was a minor chief, more a recruiter for war bands than an actual battlefield leader. However, various disease epidemics and the Council House Fight cleared the field, so to speak, and gave him both the apocalyptic vision of driving white Texan settlers into the sea and the means to carry it out.</div>
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The result was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raid_of_1840" target="_blank">Great Raid of 1840</a>, where Comanche's under Buffalo Hump's leadership swept Texas from the Staked Plains to the Gulf of Mexico, rampaging, pillaging and burning. An estimated $300,000 worth of trade goods were in the port of Linville alone, and the Comanches swept up nearly 3,000 horses, and thousands of dollars worth of other loot. </div>
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Despite his apocalyptic vision, Buffalo Hump became known as more of a peacemaker and concilliator than a die-hard last stander. Negotiations for truces and a lasting treaty went on between Buffalo Hump and other Comanche chiefs and Sam Houston in 1843 and 1844, and peace was almost there, until the Texas Senate deleted the border agreements separating Comanchería and Texas, Buffalo Hump repudiated the treaty, and the war was back on. </div>
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After the Texas Annexation and the Mexican War, Buffalo Hump realized that he could not win against the might of the US. He and the Penateka settled down on the Comanche reservation on the Brazos, and made a go of it. Between the Comanche being thoroughly miserable at poor conditions and a lack of food, and a plague of white horse thieves and squatters, settling there was a disaster, and the band left in 1858, pursued by troops under the future Confederate general and serial womanizer Earl van Dorn. The Penateka were resettled on the Comanche-Kiowa reservation at Fort Sill, and Buffalo Hump settled down to be a farmer until he died in 1870.</div>
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The figures are from Conquest Miniatures. They make mounted and dismounted versions of Buffalo Hump, as well as a very nice and modular selection of Comanche. Right now, the mounted versions have to be purchased as the Comanche War Party, but dismounted versions can be bought separately.</div>
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There's a lot to love about this figure. The features are slim and well detailed, and the character in the umbrella and the backwards duster makes it hard to resist painting. The detail is crisp enough to allow easy highlighting without being overdone. Unfortunately, Conquest suffers from flash problems; though not as bad as the Perry's metals, it was annoying to get off. However, the backwards duster and umbrella were more than enough to get the nod for "favorite character" - it's certainly one of my favorite <i>miniatures.</i></div>
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For inspiration, I used the following painting of the Great Raid of 1840, even though I plan to set my Comanches in the 1860s-1880.</div>
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I went with a generally muted color palette, with two different beige templates for his duster (Reaper Chestnut Gold triad), loincloth and moccasins (Reaper's Blond Hair triad, which is now my go-to for buff colors). The only splashes of real color were the red pattern on the horse blanket and the blue and white umbrella. Skin was Foundry's Native American Flesh triad.</div>
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Basing was inspired by a quick Google images search for cactus on the Staked Plains:</div>
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I used large (40mm round and 40mmx75mm oval) bases, to make sure that the Comanche will be properly spread out on the table top, however a potential player lines them up. Stealing an idea from <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Curt</a>, using a Gale Force 9, with black beveled edges, instead of my usual Litko or Warbases bases will allow leaders/characters to stand out on the tabletop. While some major filing has to be done with the GF9 bases, I think the effect is worth it.<br /> </div>
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I added some Dungeon Decor cacti to the bases, painted up with Vallejo's Reflective Green dry brushed over Dark American Green, then washed with Sephia Wash. I used to use washes heavily with my 15mm figures, but switched almost entirely to three-tone shade/main/highlight style for my 25mms. I'm now working washes back in because for some colors it's the only way to get a natural look.</div>
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Anyway, here's the end result:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Both figures. That's a Woodland Scenics cactus to the right; I've been working on some terrain but haven't had time to finish the basing on it.</u></td></tr>
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I can't say he did too well in the judging - despite repeated mentions in the entry, he only garnered one vote, but I am pleased with him.<br />
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Maybe I should have submitted the cartoonized versions?<br />
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Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-79954174598935560452014-01-06T22:31:00.000-05:002014-01-06T22:31:01.453-05:00Fortnight Theme Bonus Round 2: January 5 - VillainsWell, my original plan was to submit some Mahdists for the Villain Theme. Then again, my plan was also to finish up the Safari into Danger! for the Non-Combatants round, and yet they still need finishing and submitting.<br />
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Anyway, I was scrambling for a submission Thursday/Friday, and I chanced on the pack of Reaper lion and lionesses I picked up a year and change ago:<br />
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When searching for a villain idea, I decided upon Scar, from <i>The Lion King</i>. Looking at the mini, you can see the rocks sculpted on the base, suitable for many of the positions Scar would take, up on high ledges. A quick bit of Googling gave me the necessary colorations:</div>
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There was a small bit of flash on the lioness' muzzle that I didn't catch until she was almost completely painted. I tried making it into a scar, with some pink and white paint, but I'm not sure how well that turned out. You can see it best in the side by side.<br />
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Well, that's the first official entry in, for a net 60 points (5 each for the figures, and 50 for the Villain theme). Onward!Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-84355081522047600782013-12-02T23:23:00.000-05:002013-12-02T23:23:38.264-05:00Analogue Painting Challenge Prep Part II: The Ante<div style="text-align: justify;">
Wargaming manages to take much of the evil out of war. As the saying goes, there are no lead widows. Men don't die - figures are capped, removed from the table, or turned over. We usually put casualty markers in the same vein as limbers - oft thought of, rarely included. We don't have to wait for the next class of conscripts to grow up, nor do we have to pay our lead armies veteran's pensions. Many a gamer will paint up armies of evil - both human forces that did evil things to actual Armies of Evil like the forces of Chaos in Warhammer or the Orcs of Mordor. I, of course, have Prussians - I shall leave it to you to decide whether they are numbered amongst the forces of Good or Evil.</div>
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Even so, many a war evokes clear partisan feelings about whom are evil, and whom are not. For the most recent ones, these are pretty clear cut: the Nazis, the Imperial Japanese, the Taliban. As we get further into history, each side has their partisans - those of Napoleon slug it out with the Coalition, while those of Louis XIV face down Marlborough, the Grand Alliance, and the League of Augsburg. The further back we go, we know even less about who did what to whom, let alone who <i>should be</i> doing what to whom.</div>
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Colonials, especially Africa, are in many ways classic wargaming milieu. But they pose even more of a moral dilemna when trying to decide who is a "villain" and who is a "hero." Who was nastier, the Imperialist British or the Pathans of the Northwest Frontier? The loving embrace of the Congo Slavers, or the wanton barbarism of the <i>Force Publique</i>? Who is the hero, Custer or Sitting Bull? Who the villain, the Americans for herding the Sioux onto reservations, or the Sioux, who's entire society was organized around perpetual warfare, and who's Plains "homeland" was one they took by force from the people who lived there before in, at the earliest, the 1770s? </div>
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Having started watching <i>The Wild Bunch</i> over the weekend, Peckinpah captures this moral ambiguity perfectly, and provide a segue into both how I determined my "Villains" and my "Heroes," as well as address my entry fee. Pike and
the Bunch claim to live by a code: "When you side with a man, you stay
with him, and if you
can't do that you're like some animal." But they also abandon members of
the gang when it suits them and use violence as it suits them. The
movie opens with the Bunch using a Temperance March as cover to escape
the ambush laid by Deke Thornton. Now, while the Temperance ladies may
well be unwitting villains who brought lots of violence to 1920s
America, it's not exactly "hero" material to take cover <i>behind</i> women. Again, I leave it to you to decide whether they be heroes or villains.</div>
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As mentioned previously, the fee to participate in the challenge is as follows:<br />
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previous years, I ask for a small memento from each Challenger. Last year's
entrance fee was a 28mm painted figure of a Ronin and so in keeping with this
year's 'Wild Bunch' theme, the entrance fee' for this year's Challenge will be
a single 28mm figure that is inspired by a Sam Peckinpah film. The figure will
be supplied and painted by the entrant. This miniature can be submitted any
time up until the end of the Challenge. Again, same as last year, for each
figure I receive I will donate $5 to the Saskatchewan branch of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).</span></span></blockquote>
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Now, I went rooting through the lead pile, and came across this figure:</div>
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As near as I can tell, it's a Pinnacle miniature, sculpted in 1997, according to the stamp on the underside of the figure's base. I picked it up in a clear plastic baggie in a $2 bargain bin four years ago, where people were dumping unwanted miniatures to sell for whatever they could get. I suppose I'd always planned to include him in the challenge as my entry, but I didn't realize how suitable he was until I began watching <i>The Wild Bunch:</i><br />
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Now, there aren't many pictures of Freddie Sykes on the Internet, and the few that exist are mostly face shots, so this was the best image I could dig up. As you can see, the figure is not quite perfect; the beard is too long, and the wooden stock of the rifle is too long for the one Sykes pulls when the gang discovers the job's loot was washers, but the figure will serve. I'm kind of sad Curt will get him.<br />
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single one of the Fortnight Theme Bonus Rounds. That has been guiding my
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took a very strict definition for "Non-Combatant(s)" and decided the
figures had to be those sculpted with no weapons what so ever, not even a
pistol in a holster. That ruled out many of my civilian models, including the Mutineer
Miniatures Defenders of Lucknow, and many Foundry Darkest Africa characters.
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who're sculpted just that way, and I have had them sitting in bare lead for
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metal foot figures is clean off flash and mold lines, file down the bases and
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from the fictional but plausible English Bible Society (EBS). Third from the
left is David Livingstone. Then we have Aunt Augusta, the meddlesome and
trouble prone Aunt of the current German commander in East Africa, Herr Major
Vogel. Think Jessica Fletcher in East Africa. Finally, the servant Hamid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Reverend Lovejoy, EBS, is the
"Doctor Zwingili" figure from Traders and Travellers - DA017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mrs. Rebecca Lovejoy and Aunt
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there); Mrs. Rebecca Lovejoy is the "Agnes Day" figure, and Aunt
Augusta is Mimi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Livingstone is the "David Livingstone" figure from
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hamid comes from the pack Askari
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next, I've primed thirteen
porters for one of the Caravans:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are from Foundry's Bearers
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Women and Children - DA027 pack:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, why are two sets primed a
different color, you ask? Well . . . for the Europeans, I plan on painting them
lighter colors (yellows, light greens, creams and blues) and yellow especially
has serious issues going over, well, anything. The Reverend Lovejoy I plan on
painting similar to the Foundry sculpt, but with a paler green smock, and
probably brown pants. Mrs. Lovejoy I am putting in a yellow dress, and yellow
will not go over black for me. David Livingstone I will also probably paint
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Aunt Augusta, I plan to paint
her like the mannequin displaying Victorian women's fashion in the Musée
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, the dress isn't sculpted the
same, but I plan to use the same blue and white color scheme, with the off
white umbrella. It really was quite lucky that I picked up that figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From my research, the major
colors in East Africa for non-European clothing were whites and off whites (the
whiter the white of your clothes, the higher your status), blues and reds.
Those go fine over black. I plan to keep the paint schemes simple, and not try
anything as advanced as the pattern shown for the lady with the basket of corn
on her head. Suitcases will probably be green, cloth the usual off-white, red
or blue, jars terracotta, and so forth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So yes, that's rather an
ambitious lot to paint in the week from December 15 to December 22. Fortunately for me, all the sculpts are simple, so there's not a lot of colors needed. First
priority is the bearers, since they absolutely MUST be done in order to have a
caravan. Then the Europeans, then the African Civilians.<br />
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apologize for the studio interruption, and now return you to your regularly
scheduled blog, already in session. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
truth is, I have not put paint to brush, let alone mini, since May. An untimely
flood rendered by previous abode uninhabitable, the refugee camp was not
conducive to paints, and with two major moves in there, the paints and minis
have sat in the storage boxes since.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
upside is that I have been regularly gaming, it's the painting, photographing
and the blogging that have slowed down to nothing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fortunately,
the <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.com/2013/11/lets-go-fourth-annual-analogue-hobbies.html">The
Fourth Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge</a> has rolled around again,
and it's prime to get me back into painting and blogging. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #f6b26b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Challenge will extend from 12:01 am December 15th through to the first day of
Spring, 12:01 am March 20th CST (Central Standard Time).<br />
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Figures can be prepared and primed prior to the start date (Dec 15th), but no
colour can be applied until the 15th. In order to be scored the figures have to
be based and their groundwork completed. The figures have to be painted by you.
The honour system will be followed in the completion and entry of figures to
the Challenge. Again, great dishonour goes upon anyone who shames themselves in
the time-honoured craft of painting toy soldiers!<br />
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The subject matter can be in any scale and in any theme, including sci-fi and
fantasy.<br />
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In order to be scored, photos of all figures/units along with a short
descriptive note must be submitted to me for posting on the Analogue Hobbies
blog. Up-to-date scoring will be maintained on the main page. <br />
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The Judge (Curt) will participate, but my score (typically negligible) will not
have any standing in the Challenge. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Naturally,
of course, there is a twist:</span></span></div>
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an added bit of fun, this year we will have 'Fortnight Theme Bonus Rounds'.
Each 'Theme Bonus Round' challenges Challengers to enter a submission that
illustrates that particular theme. The Bonus Rounds are not mandatory, they are
just a little bit of silliness to mark the path of the Challenge.<br />
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Any Challenger who manages to submit an entry for a 'Fortnight Theme Bonus
Round' will get an extra 50 points on top of the regular entry tally. No scales
less than 15mm will be eligible for the Theme Bonus Rounds but they can be of a
historical or fictional subject.<br />
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The Bonus Themes along with their submission deadlines are: </span></span></div>
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• December 22: Non Combatant(s)<br />
• January 5: Villain(s) <br />
• January 19: Vehicle<br />
• February 2: Hero or Heroic Group <br />
• February 16: Casualty / Casualties <br />
• March 2: Favourite Character <br />
• March 16: Last Stand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And, as
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previous years, I ask for a small memento from each Challenger. Last year's
entrance fee was a 28mm painted figure of a Ronin and so in keeping with this
year's 'Wild Bunch' theme, the entrance fee' for this year's Challenge will be
a single 28mm figure that is inspired by a Sam Peckinpah film. The figure will
be supplied and painted by the entrant. This miniature can be submitted any
time up until the end of the Challenge. Again, same as last year, for each
figure I receive I will donate $5 to the Saskatchewan branch of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The theme
of the competition being Sam Peckinpah, that suits my Western/Cavalry
collection theme. But, in that vein, it also works with my Colonials and
Africa; while Peckinpah did not do any of the colonial epics as far as I know,
it's the same kind of storytelling. So that's where I will focus my efforts. I
do intend to do better than I did last year, where I was playing along at home,
scoring an absolute zero, getting nothing finished during the competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Since the
goal is to get me painting again, I mean to better that. I've set the goal of
200 points, which is 40 25mm foot figures, or 20 25mm mounted figures. I'm also
adding the further optional goal(s) to discipline my painting:</span></span></div>
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game set in the East Coast of Africa (Cairo to Durban and all points in
between)</span></span></li>
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game set in the Old West</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, I
don't know what's up with this smuggling budgies in sandbags nonsense, but I
realize I don't paint quickly enough to have a shot at winning through sheer
volume. I can, however, rack up Bonus Theme points, and probably submit minis
that can compare with most/all other comers. </span></span></div>
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approximately twenty-five (25) days to put together a plan and prep figures.
That's looking at what I have available, what (few) bits I plan to buy,
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Over the
next few weeks, I plan to blog my Diabolical Scheme to Win, posting my painting
ideas and photos of the prepped items. So watch this space.</span></span></div>
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Robert Herrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174794157127723967noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-54662163351156468872012-12-24T22:14:00.002-05:002012-12-24T22:16:39.457-05:007th Cavalry Regimental Sergeant Major William H. Sharrow<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The 7th Cavalry project grew out of two sources. The first was a series of wargames back in 2000-2003, right when Foundry came out with their Cavalry lines. As part of that, I'd purchased the Little Bighorn Personalities pack. They sat in semi-storage for about 10 years, until I ran across a bunch of the Foundry cavalry in a used miniatures sale in 2010. I promptly snapped them up, and thus began my colonials project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Said colonials project has greatly expanded, with the inclusion of Africa and the Northwest Frontier to the American West and Mexico. But that is a tale for a different day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I had the personalities, Custer's Headquarters detachment was the best place to begin. As part of this project, I have purchased about a dozen different books on the Old West to figure out what people looked like and how they fought. The 7th is fairly easy, because Custer tried to keep all the horses in a company the same color, and several horses (like Custer's Vic, and Keogh's Comanche) are well known personalities in their own right. However, there's always the need to figure out how to paint items like hats, facial hair, shirts or horse markings. The big names are famous, but the "lesser" identities often not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, I have consulted several Last Stand paintings for information. Richard Luce's <i>Custer's Last Command</i> has been especially helpful, and bears relevance to this subject:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Lieut. Col. George Custer 2. 1st Lieut. W.W. Cooke 3. "Handsome Jack" 4. 1st Lieut. Algernon Smith 5. Capt. Tom Custer 6. Capt. George Yates 7. Boston Custer 8. Autie Reed 9. Sgt. Major William Sharrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For Sergeant Sharrow, I chose a matching mounted and dismounted cavalry figure they designate "Sgt. Smallwood." These are how they look in the Foundry catalogue:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mounted figure is no longer sold, but will probably be reissued as part of the Foundry reorganization. It's slightly different from the dismount, in that the mounted figure has overalls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, there were three pressing conversion needs:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Add boots to the mounted figure</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Turn the issue uniform trousers into buckskin ones</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Add a beard</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first two were accomplished with green stuff, the third just with paint. For the mounted figure, I sculpted buckskin fringe out of greenstuff and used additional greenstuff to shape the boot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the facial hair, I just used paint to add a beard. I followed Barry Hilton's technique for adding <span style="font-size: large;">a 5 o'clock shadow</span>, and have been doing that for all but senior officers of my 7th Cavalry. The hat cords comes from <a href="http://captainrichardsminiaturecivilwar.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Captain Richard's Miniature Civil War</a>. I probably should have used yellow, since yellow was the Cavalry branch color, but <span style="font-size: large;">I was afraid that they would not show up very well. The blue is somewhat off in these photos, <span style="font-size: large;">but I am quite satisfied with how scruffy and faded it looks in reality. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The </span></span>only bit left to be done is to add his <span style="font-size: large;">sergeant's stripes. I'd originally painted them on, but <span style="font-size: large;">I did not like how they looked. So I <span style="font-size: large;">am working on creating decals the right size in Photoshop and will add them once finished.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm especially pleased with the facial expression:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I started (and finished) well before the Analogue Painting <span style="font-size: large;">Challenge start date, he doesn't count. </span>So that<span style="font-size: large;">'s how things stand. I <span style="font-size: large;">have <span style="font-size: large;">another five miniatures for the HQ detachment currently on the painting table, though some may end up in E or F troop and be replaced with Sash and Saber/Perry horse holders. I also need to paint up Dr. Lord, his medical detachment, <span style="font-size: large;">Mark Kellogg, Autie Reed and Boston Custer to finish off the command element. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merry Christmas to all! I'm not <span style="font-size: large;">expecting any miniatures for gifts, but I may purchase a few for myself in the coming weeks . . . </span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-5993297358944137392012-12-21T18:22:00.002-05:002012-12-24T22:15:45.668-05:00Unofficial Analogue Painting challenge<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm cribbing the rules from the <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-sword-drawn-3rd-annual-analogue.html#comment-form" target="_blank">3rd Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge</a> painting challenge for my winter painting to see if I can inspire myself to increase my painting output this winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While too late to be one of the ronin, one can always serve as an armed retainer/hanger on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rules are as follows:</span></div>
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can be prepared and primed prior to the start date (Dec 20th), but no
colour can be applied until the 20th. In order to be scored the figures
have to be based and groundwork completed. The figures have to be
painted by you. The honour system will be followed in the completion and
entry of figures to the Challenge. Great dishonour goes upon anyone who
shames themselves in the time-honoured craft of painting toy soldiers!</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">In order to be
scored, photos of all figures/units along with a short descriptive note
must be submitted to me for posting on the Analogue Hobbies blog.
Up-to-date scoring will be maintained on the main page. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">6mm foot figure = 1 point<br />6mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 2 pts<br />6mm vehicle = 3 pts<br /><br />15mm foot figure = 2 pts<br />15mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 4 pts<br />15mm vehicle = 6 pts<br /><br />20mm foot figure = 4 pts<br />20mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 8 pts<br />20mm vehicle = 12 pts<br /><br />28mm foot figure = 5 pts<br />28mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 10 pts<br />28mm vehicle = 15 pts</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Based on my previous painting output and all 28mm figures, 200 points is reasonable and 300 is ambitious. The first 75 points are on the painting table and serendipitously complied with all the rules - some prep work of mold-line removal and gluing to painting sticks/wine corks, but not a lick of paint applied until the 20th:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Mounted 28mm Lt. W. W. Cooke (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Dismounted 28mm Lt. W. W. Cooke (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Mounted 28mm Regimental Standard Bearer (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Dismounted 28mm Regimental Standard Bearer (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Mounted 28mm Trumpeter (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1 Dismounted 28mm Trumpeter (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">2 Mounted 28mm Greenhorns (Foundry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">2 Dismounted 28mm Greenhorns (Foundry) </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here they are in all their primedish glory:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note, the sailors and spaceship seen in the background is not eligible, though there is a cavalryman and horse or two skulking in the back who are and may be part of my next entry.</span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-85951655240925540172012-12-21T17:50:00.003-05:002012-12-21T17:50:57.692-05:00Rumors of the demise of my miniatures in the recent Mayan Apocalypse are greatly overratedI'm still painting, I promise!<br />
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A lot of work has actually been done, the problem is that not a lot of it has been photographed!<br />
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Since May, I have finished the following:<br />
<b>Sassanids:</b><br />
General vignette: 1x 28mm A&A mounted Sassanid officer, 1x 28mm A&A mounted Clibinarii converted to a standard bearer and 1x 28mm Gripping Beast musician<br />
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<b>Injurius Games Mecks</b>:<br />
1x 28mm Jumper robot<br />
2x 28mm Spartan robots<br />
2x 28mm Runner robots<br />
2x 28mm rocket pods<br />
3x 28mm autocannon mounts<br />
2x 28mm microwaver arms<br />
2x 28mm laser arms<br />
2x 28mm twin laser turrets<br />
1x28mm Street Rat Grenadier <br />
All from Red Shirt Games<br />
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<b>Baluchi</b> <b>Mercenaries:</b><br />
1x 28mm Baluchi Swordsman on Foot (Foundry)<br />4x 28mm Baluchi Matchlockmen on Foot (Foundry)<br />
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<b>Masai:</b><br />
30x 28mm Masai purchased at Origins (Foundry)<br />
1x 28mm Masai leader (Foundry)<b></b><br />
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<b>7th Cavalry:</b><br />
28mm Captain Tom Custer (Foundry), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Scout Charley Reynolds (Foundry), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Sgt. Robert Hughes, Custer's personal guidon bearer (Foundry), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Regimental Sergeant Major Sharrow (Foundry conversion), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Chief Trumpeter Voss (Artizan), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Orderly Trumpeter Giovanni Martini (H Troop), (Foundry), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm 2nd Lt. William van Wyck Reily (XO F Troop), (Artizan), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Private John Burkman, Custer's Striker (Company L), (Foundry), mounted and dismounted<br />
28mm Corporal John Briody (F Troop Guidon Bearer), (Artizan), mounted and dismounted<br />
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<b>Terrain:</b><br />
8 palm trees<b> </b> scratch built from Michaels' Boston ferns.<br />
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I also have the 12 Copplestone sailors that just need their bases flocked. The problem has been photography. With the closure of my LGS and my own camera issues, I've been reduced to photos on the painting table with my cell phone, which are less than satisfactory. So, I promise, there will be more photos once I get enough terrain done for a good photo shoot. I may post a teaser of the conversion work needed for RSM Sharrow over the weekend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-50129137659133603752012-05-12T01:34:00.001-04:002012-05-12T10:52:38.035-04:00What I've been working onI've been in a bit of a painting slump recently. Any project gets 3/4ths done, and then something else takes my fancy.<br />
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So I have tried to impose some discipline on my painting, while still enjoying what I'm working on and finishing something. Repainting a kitchen, a front hall and assorted stuff does not count.<br />
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So here's what I've finished lately:<br />
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1 French Musketeer from Regiment Languedoc for the Dutch Wars<br />
1 Mexican Infantryman for the 1860s/1870s clashes with Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas and the US Army.<br />
1 Mounted English Civil War Royalist cavalry senior officer - tentatively for Sir Humphrey Bennett's Regiment of Horse<br />
9 Sassanid Clibinarii<br />
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They show off several new facets of my painting ability. When I paint 15mm figures, I glue cavalry to the horse and paint them as one unit. I'd originally done that with 25mm figures as well. However, it posed problems - especially when putting multiple figures on a single base. It was very difficult to maneuver a paint brush around to paint the figure, let alone spackle, paint, gravel, wash, dry brush and static glue the bases.<br />
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So now I mount cavalrymen on a nail in a wine cork glued to a soda cap, while I glue the horse to another soda cap. It makes things much easier to manipulate and get into the empty corners. <br />
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Only the two infantrymen were fresh paint jobs.<br />
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The 9 Clibinarii were the second part of 18 I purchased from Gripping Beast last year. I hated painting those figures. The horse and men had serious flash issues, to the point where I had to take a Dremel tool to them just to get the bows to fit in the hands of the figures. Gluing the bows in was also a pain. About halfway through, I decided I thoroughly hated how they were coming along and threw them in some Pine Sol to start over.<br />
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I started over. As my confidence has grown, I have begun to attempt more elaborate armor patterns, similar to those done by <a href="http://www.hourofwolves.org/?view=newsArchive">An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields</a>. I have yet to do any quartering, but I have done single horizontal lines and double horizontal lines and vertical lines. I'm quite pleased with some of the color combinations:<br />
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I took a different tack with these. Instead of just randomly using a color, the way I had with previous Sassanids, I took a "knight" approach and tried to give each figure a set of colors to tie them together.</div>
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All the unit needs is their flag. I have some interesting flag patterns from <i>Shadows in the Desert</i>, but those will be used on the general vignette. These may just get an A&A standard of ribbons on a pole.</div>
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The Cavalier was also a repaint of a figure I had first painted at 18/19. It was a good paint job for somebody starting out, but I can do MUCH better now. With a lot (40 Old Glory Cavalry, 6 boxes of Warlord Cavalry, 2 boxes of Dragoons and another four boxes of Infantry) more ECW figures in my possession that need painting and basing, it seemed far more effective to strip them down and rework. So into the Pine-Sol they went.</div>
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The officer is a test figure for how to paint buffcoats and blackened armor. When I'd originally painted the figure, I just painted the coat and leather equipment white, and the armor silver, then hit it with a Minwax stain. It worked, sorta. Now that I'm much better, I went with something different.</div>
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The armor was primed black, painted with Reaper's Blackened Steel, then hit with Vallejo's black ink wash. It gives me the very effect I was looking for - metallic, but dark. Fairly straight forward. The buffocat was actually painted using Reaper's Blond Hair triad. I wanted the coat to stand out from the leather boots and leather cross belts. I'd also read how variable buffcoat quality can be, and that the better quality coats are lighter. Since this fellow is a colonel at <i>1644</i> scale and a captain for <i>Once Upon a Time in the West Country,</i> it seemed logical to go lighter. I'm pleased with how it worked out.</div>
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Next up is a Sassanid general vignette:</div>
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Then more Gripping Beast cavalry. The Light Cavalry is much better behaved, but I still have to deburr two standard bearer hands to put the Essex horsetail standards in them.</div>
<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-29752724762731276512012-02-24T21:42:00.000-05:002012-02-24T21:42:57.403-05:00Regiment Languedoc, 1672 - WIP #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided on a 20mmx20mm base, the same size my English Civil War infantry will be based upon. I generally use Litko for all of my gaming bases - they're nice, laser cut (so they all match) and I like the finish that the laser cutting process puts on the edges. I also use their "Flex Steel" bases so that the bases can be magnetically stuck in my storage cases. Because the flex steel are not as precisely cut as the plywood, I went with a slightly smaller 15mmx15mm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here the figure is glued to the base:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0UoH2aaIfr8/T0hCwJPhk8I/AAAAAAAAAMw/KzyB91ctr1I/s400/2012-02-17_18-07-15_656.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
My basing style has changed noticably. It used to be just paint the base, stick it in flock, seal it. With 25mm figures (or, really, any figure with a substantially large base) that's not a viable option.<br />
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First up, I use spackle to level off the base. I use DAP's <span style="font-size: small;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Drydex Dry Time Indicator Spackling - it goes on pink, and when it's fully white, it's ready to be worked with. As shown here:</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fECz4HMy3A0/T0hDGU4LO3I/AAAAAAAAANI/0IQFsbrlPEk/s1600/2012-02-20_18-57-34_412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fECz4HMy3A0/T0hDGU4LO3I/AAAAAAAAANI/0IQFsbrlPEk/s400/2012-02-20_18-57-34_412.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="btAsinTitle">I normally then wash the gravel with Games Workshop's Flesh Wash. Unfortunately, my bottle is almost empty, and GW has stopped making it (or, at least, I can't find it). So, since the 1672 figure is partially a test of certain combinations (like painting grays I will need for Sir Henry Bard's Regiment of Foote), I decided I could test a new ink for the base. I picked up a bottle of Speedwell's Burnt Umber ink instead. I was a bit dubious, but it looks like it dried just fine:</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-74712683461343484402012-02-17T17:58:00.000-05:002012-02-17T17:58:28.485-05:00Regiment Languedoc, 1672 - WIP #2Well, the musketeer from Regiment de Languedoc for the Dutch Wars is ready to be based!<br />
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Sadly, the hacking of the League of Augsburg has held up some of my research to finish the mini. I just assumed that the ribbons on his stockings, his shoes and his hat were red and not red and yellow. I also assumed the breeches were gray. That seems to be confirmed by this print from <a href="http://www.drabant-miniatures.com/english/drabant.php?razdel=gallery&page=redut">Drabant Miniatures</a>:<br />
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That left me with the apostles. There are several prints from Louis Susane's <u><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/histoiredelanci00susagoog">Histoire de l'ancienne infanterie française</a> </u>in <span class="source">The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms. For the apostles, I chose to use this example from the Regiment Picardie: </span><br />
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Anyway, here are four photos of the almost finished miniature: <br />
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All that is left is to highlight his hat and shoes, and base the miniature. Since my 25mm figure bases are spackled, painted, sanded, washed, drybrushed and static grassed, it didn't seem prudent to put more than a basic effort into the shoes until I was done with the paint bits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-7832222915412374772012-02-16T17:07:00.002-05:002012-02-17T00:14:23.450-05:00Regiment Languedoc, 1672 - WIP #1Through the <a href="http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/fightingtalk/index.php">Fightingtalk forums</a> at the League of Augsburg, I recieved one of <a href="http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=123&page=1">Northstar's <i>1672</i></a><i> </i>line: specifically, a French Musketeer firing.<br />
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Through the help of Arthur, a member there, I've decided to paint my sample figure as a member of the Regiment Languedoc, raised in 1672 for the Dutch War. Gray coats, blue cuffs, red and yellow shoulder ribbons Nine Years War/War of the League of Augsburg, red stockings in the Nine Years War/War of the League of Augsburg.<br />
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Flags are the traditional and easy to paint white cross over quarterings of filamot and violet, though Not by Appointment has lovely paper flags for Languedoc <a href="http://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2011/08/colours-of-french-languedoc-infantry.html">here.</a> Officers theoretically wore the same uniform as them men in the French Army, but made of better material and more sumptuous. Languedoc's musicians were in the Royal livery.<br />
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The North Star 1672 (formerly Copplestone's Glory of the Sun range) line are quite exquisite figures. Upon receipt, there was only a little bit of flash: <br />
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Here he is, mounted on a bottle cap for painting:<br />
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First up was the gray coat. I began with black over the gray primer, to keep the grays from streaking. I also painted his hat and shoes. The coat is Delta Ceramcoat Charcoal for the shadow and Hippo Gray for the main shade; my highlight color is not yet determined, but I am thinking a 1:1 mix of Hippo Gray and Ceramcoat Quaker or Country Gray:<br />
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Next up were the cuffs. I'm quite a fan of the shade of <a href="http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Royal-Carabiniers">blue</a> that Project SYW uses for the French blue, and I think I figured out how to mix it. The shadow was Vallejo 70965 Prussian Blue (yes, heresy!), and the main shade is a 2:1 mix of Prussian Blue and Vallejo 70943 Grey Blue. The highlight will be a 1:1 mix, or a 1:2 mix of the same colors. I think the cuffs look pretty nice:<br />
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The musket and sword scabbard I am particularly proud of. Instead of building up from a shadow to a highlight the way I do for most of my 25mm colors, I painted them with Vallejo Game Color 72042 Parasite Brown, and then washed with Games Workshop Flesh Wash. I think it gives a nice varnished wood effect:<br />
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I painted the leatherwork in another Reaper Master Series Triad: 09109 Ruddy Leather for the shadow, 09110 Oiled Leather is the main shade, and I will highlight with 09111 Burnt Orange.<br />
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I'm not sure if I want to expand into the Dutch Wars. I'm tempted, but I have a lot in the metal mountain to paint. I may purchase some more from Northstar, since I need to purchase pikes and a few other figures for my English Civil War collections. Then again, I'm also tempted by Barry Hilton's Warfare range, and do have two WSS regiments in 28mm that need some TLC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-13166826793884057752012-02-01T18:46:00.000-05:002012-02-01T18:46:05.192-05:00Miniatures looking for a good homeFor those who are interested, the German tanks are up on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/15mm-FOW-Mid-War-German-Panzer-IIIs-and-Panzer-IVs-/290665144968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43acfe2288">ebay</a>.<br />
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Hopefully, they will find somebody who enjoys them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-86678194046791916792012-01-30T17:55:00.000-05:002012-01-30T17:55:31.859-05:00End of an EraI've been combing through my collection of miniatures, and hit upon my 15mm World War II. Flames of War can be best described as a graveyard of a dozen schemes. I would purchase a bunch for an army, paint up a little, lose interest, and move onto the next.<br />
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The truth is, I've not played a Flames of War game in at least two years - I'm hazy on the changes from 1st Edition to 2nd, and have no knowledge about 3rd. It's not something my gaming group plays, and with the demise of my LGS, it doesn't look like something I will be playing with in the future.<br />
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Thus, I am contemplating parting with pieces of the collection. It's a hard decision, because some pieces I put a lot of work into and am rather proud of. It's not the first time I have sold miniatures, but all previous sales were to people I knew, people I gamed with, and those whom I knew would give the miniatures a good home. Prices were low, and swaps were as common as cash purchases.<br />
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Ebay is a whole new world. I have bought a lot of unpainted miniatures to expand collections and a few painted, but selling is new.<br />
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So I dug out the old miniatures and took some photographs, some for the first time ever. Most of these were taken on the dining room table, where the only terrain was a green placement. Every miniature has a bit of a story to it.<br />
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<b>DAK Germans:</b><br />
These were my first FOW miniatures - two PzKfwIIIs and 2 PzKfwIVs. They were also my first bits of conversion work, taking the Rettemeier Panzer III J moden and splitting the pieces between three different tanks to give a lived-in look with minimal cost. They were also my first attempt at dunkelgelb. I've never been that pleased with them - the detail works, but they're just subtly off.<br />
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Ultimately, they formed part of a small kampfgruppe I'd put together. It was never really large enough to play with on it's own, and until recently it wasn't a combination that could be fielded legally. However, I changed how I painted German tanks midway through, so these guys didn't really fit.<br />
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Here's the rest of the kampfgruppe:<br />
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In the back row on the left is the Tigerless Tiger platoon. It's vehicles #2 and #4 (which the TOE has as Panzer III Ns) and one of the battalion HQ vehicles added to make a legal platoon. There's another use of the Rettemeier model in there too. Next to that (back right) is the three squadpanzergrenadier platoon. I never got around to finishing their transport. They were my first attempt at German infantry, using Humbro's Italian Uniform for the greenish/faded German tropical uniforms. It kind of worked.<br />
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In the front on the left is a pionier platoon with two squads. The infantry are Old Glory 15mm conversions, and the faded German feldgrau was a Reaper mid gray. On the right is a two-gun 150mm infantry gun battery, which can only be fielded with panzergrenadiers (at the time) and was pretty but not as useful as I'd thought. They also need a command base and transport.<br />
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I have enough tanks to flesh it out as a late 1943 Panzer Company if I desire to. I have some recon elements that also need some painting, should I get around to it. There I will keep, should I get back into FoW.<br />
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<b>Winter 1942 Germans:</b><br />
I'd been interested in the battle of Rzhev ever since I'd read David M. Glanz' "The Battle that Never Happened"<b> </b>in the anthology <i>No End Save Victory</i>. Thus began a Grossdeutchland infantry company, before they were made into a Panzergrenadier Division.<br />
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This has some of my second attempts at making snowy bases, along with some of my favorite work on 15mm WWII.<br />
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<i>Infanterie Platoon with attached anti-tank</i><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are Old Glory/Command decision, and the same Reaper gray was used for feldgrau. The bases need some reworking and so do the faces, but they're servicable and they have a nice level of detail. I have the miniatures for additional platoons and the weapons platoon, but never got around to painting them either.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><i> Headquarters 28mm anti-tank gun</i><br />
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<i>Infantry Gun Platoon</i><br />
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Here are two Battlefront 7.5cm light infantry guns<span style="font-size: small;">, with transport. The command team are Command Decision. I'm missing an observer, but I'm not sure the platoon comes with one. I'm proud of these for the same reason I'm proud of the 28mm gun. Yes, I realize the shell is out of scale, but I had the spare crewmen. This is version 3 of snow bases, with lots more snow directly glued to the base and white painted on the flocking. The piled up rocks started out as blue aquarium gravel and were then painted, washed and dusted with snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The transport is Battlefront and they were cast resin, which are different to paint than all metal or resin/metal vehicles. I'm pleased with them, but they need decals. The space for the GD helmet is deliberately darker than the rest of the vehicle, because they wouldn't wash over the stenciling when they whitewashed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>4 Marder I self-propelled anti-tank guns</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don't know if these are the right kind of Marder or not for what GD actually had in the Rzhev salient. They're older Battlefront models, before they retooled and added crew to their vehicles. Despite that, they have a good war record, even if they think they are tanks half the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>88mm gun platoon with transport</i></span><br />
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Tactically, they're often a liability, but they're just so beautiful and I put a good deal of work into them that I can't not take them. Instead of whitewashing the guns, I painted white stripes and then glued fake snow to them. I'd read that, when whitewash was scarce, they would put snow on vehicles and/or gunshields to conceal them, so it sounded like a good idea to model. The supports are pieces of wire, and the camouflage netting is window screen material. I'd also put some spray-on snow on them, but that has fallen by the wayside.<br />
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<b>Midwar Winter Soviets</b><br />
Naturally, to fight the Germans, I needed Soviets. I'd whipped the credit card out before I'd thought, because Soviets mean hordes, and I paint very slowly. The idea was to paint a Naval Infantry Battalion to fight the Germans in the snow.<b> </b><br />
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<i>4 15mm Soviet Flamethrower teams:</i><b></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uH4Uc5UJB-M/TycHUMSCpMI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QmE9VlUshdU/s1600/P1290272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uH4Uc5UJB-M/TycHUMSCpMI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QmE9VlUshdU/s400/P1290272.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> At the time, flamethrower teams were the thing to have in a Soviet horde. So they were the first thing I painted. The snowsuits are Reaper White Leather and the helmets are Reaper Kilt Green. You can also see some dismounted Cossacks I added to the stands. They're conversions for troopers in winter dress - mostly using paint. I'm quite fond of the officer with the drawn sword leading one of the flamethrower teams!<br />
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</i></div><i>Blocking Detachment and Commisars</i><b><br />
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You can see the theme I was going for. Most of the conversions were done with paint - painting khaki trousers instead of blue, different color greatcoats, or machine gun crews in dark naval uniforms. I think it makes for a good "in the field making do" look. The flags are a combination of standard Soviet flags, with one naval ensign. I think the naval ensign was planned for the Battalion Kommisar.<br />
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I have the miniatures to finish out the battalion, but, as with the rest of these, not much desire to.<br />
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<i>The Kommisar's Tiger Tank</i> <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e6F0_xboJ3Q/TycHtFDKckI/AAAAAAAAAIg/9XcSJlg3ckA/s1600/P1290283.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e6F0_xboJ3Q/TycHtFDKckI/AAAAAAAAAIg/9XcSJlg3ckA/s400/P1290283.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div>Even if I sell off all of my WWII, this mini I will not part with. Easily ten years ago, we gamed the Grossdeutchland attack at Kursk. The Germans had the mission of attacking through a series of Russian infantry positions. The Germans were warned that they heard tank noises and clanking on their right flank. They ignored the warning and were completely surprised when three entire battalions of T-34s came surging through the open flank. One battalion pushed into the rear of the assaulting Germans, one across the battlefield hunting their air and artillery observers, and one circled back to attack the heavy tanks. In the melee, several Tigers were destroyed and one captured.<br />
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I asked whether the Russians could field the captured tank - I was told yes, provided I purchased and painted one appropriately. I did so, and this was the result. The Saga of the Kommisar in his Tiger was born. The Kommisar commanded a heavy tank battalion from his Tiger through all the remaining Battle of Kursk and the Russian 1943 offensive. The Germans were determined to destroy it, and threw everything they had at it - artillery, air attacks, anti-tank guns, even more Tigers. Nothing worked! Not even a swamp could stop the Kommisar and his Tiger!<br />
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<b>American MidWar Armor</b><br />
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<i>4 <span class="heading18">T28E1/M15</span></i><b> </b><i>(one with armor, three without)</i><b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_B8Hif2f68/TycHkeAdMjI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Ri3GNv4JBzQ/s1600/P1290279.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_B8Hif2f68/TycHkeAdMjI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Ri3GNv4JBzQ/s400/P1290279.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>These are all that are left of a Midwar Operation Torch force. The Lees and infantry were sold years ago when I lost interest in the project. They're painted in a Tamiya olive drab that I passionately hate working with. Unfortunately, the photography has washed out some of the shading on the olive drab.<br />
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So, that's a bit of a trip down memory lane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081495603415468615.post-16812931971070625832011-08-10T19:35:00.001-04:002011-08-10T19:35:30.605-04:00Huzzah!Three followers now!<br />
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I suspect you expect me to paint more!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2