Back to The Wars of The Roses!

 The two regiments of Foot featured previously made their way safely to Scotland to take part in the game of Black Powder thanks to Royal Mail Special Delivery! The photo below shows them on the table alongside those already painted by Marcus, and I think they match very well, (mine to the right and Marcus' to the left ). 

So I'm now back to WoR for Noel, starting Faction #4 with the men of the Household, lots of armour both mail and plate and a good smattering of Red/Yellow livery. 15mm Peter Pig Miniatures.

 This week its on to the Retained men then I have some nice 20mm Spanish siege gunners to paint for Tony ('Foy') and then some Warlord Epic Napoleonic cavalry for Tim which will run into June so keeping nice and busy. Also, another large box of figures has arrived for Old John this week!

Ready for the long march North!

The men of Barrells and Pulteneys Regiments of Foot start the long march from Kent up to Forfar today to be ready for battle tomorrow afternoon! They will join the 5 Government units already painted by Marcus to face off against hordes of hairy Scots in a practice game of Black Powder Wednesday afternoon. We are going with Royal Mail Special Delivery because it guarantees next day delivery unlike the usual Tracked 24 service which does not! I'll ask Marcus for some photos and if OK post them here next post. 

Thanks again to Old John for his help with flags, Marcus has now ordered from the two links below.

http://maverick-models.com/JAC%20FLAGS/JAC%20Scottish.html

https://www.wargamesdesigns.com/flags.html

Right then lads, off you go.....

Barrells 1745 completed.

 Given the scale (Warlord Epic 13.5mm) I don't think they look bad and Marcus is happy with them, they along with Pulteneys Regt will be making the long march North on Tuesday (via RM Special Delivery, guaranteed next day!) in time to join the rehearsal battle (Falkirk) on Wednesday Afternoon. More will follow later. For the upcoming Culloden game the rules will be Black Powder with every unit represented on the table.

We are still searching for flags! Old John has been very helpful and supplied lots of links that I'm working through - print or buy but has to be 15mm scale.

Barrells 1745 (from Warlord Epic AWI).

Painting Warlord 'Epic' AWI's for Culloden!

 These are the first 2 bases of Barrells Regiment (4th Foot) for a Battle of Culloden display game to be held at Montrose in Scotland in (I think) July. Commission work of course for Marcus. I'm finding the new visor is really helping me now I am used to the hand/eye co ordination. The uniforms are not perfect for the earlier period but work OK in these small 13.5mm 60 figure units I think. I have 3 such units to paint with more to follow.

Flags - can anyone assist me with suitable flags please? We are trying to find 15mm scale flags for this period to either print or purchase. 

Latest YouTube offering - visor update/ Wars of The Roses/ Epic Culloden.

 The old YouTube channel now has 1080 subscribers with several of the older videos achieving over 8000 views over time. It just encourages me to keep updating now and then and this latest video discusses the new headset visor, a new commission painting Epic AWI's as Government Troops for a Culloden display game, more Wars of The Roses and those pesky gliders again, all ready to be packed up to return to Noel finally. It's a bit of fun, just my gruff old voice speaking into my old IPhone which has just been upgraded to a superior later version with excellent camera for future videos.

Robo - Painter!

Stop laughing at the back there! - my wife was in stiches last night when I first tried them on - but I had been looking into (pun intended) investing in an Optivisor headset when I saw these fairly cheap (£25.00) magnifiers on Amazon so thought I would try a pair first and to be fair they work really well. They come with a selection of clip in magnifications and LED lights which are adjustable to different settings. I am experimenting today with the x3 glass fitted which certainly brings out all the detail of straps and faces etc. I want to see how the hand/brush/eye co ordination works for me and I will report back in due course. 

 

 

Something different - Ski Corps 1711 to 1717!

 Among the latest batch of painting for Old John are these three lovely 20mm conversions representing Ski Troops. I just had to share them here as they are so unusual!

Described by John as 'Les Higgins/Airfix conversions'.