Friday 12 August 2022

Guest spot - 'Old John' does it in style!

Over the last week I have been busy painting 3 battalions of War of The Spanish Succession French infantry - a total of 54 figures including 3 mounted officers - for Tony. I changed my usual black undercoat after giving it a lot of thought to a mid Grey, which I must say has worked very well for these Sky Grey coated French and it's a method I will stick to for such troops in the future. I'll describe more with photos in the next post but for now I wanted to share some photos that John sent me of a recent game played on his large table featuring troops from his collection. I'm sure John will fill us in about the figures used and answer any questions but I know there are a 'few' in there that I painted for him!

Edit: John has left a few notes in the comments section. Google won't let him post as 'Old John' (as he is always known), but he lists all the figure manufacturers there, cheers John.










5 comments:

  1. Wow, great looking game. I’ve got toy envy!

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    1. That new pad of yours JBM will surely accommodate a similar sized table :) Hope it's all going well for you mate.

      John is going to pop a few notes later about the game and the figures used.

      Lee.

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    2. game fought 18th/20thJuly, in heat!!, fun fictional game loosely based on WSS in Spain, rules used were my mate Iain's, play testing, YES loadsa figures painted by Lee, right of table were Franco/Spanish troops, left side of table Allied troops comprising British, Catalonians , Austrians, Dutch, Italian States (Papal, Genoa, Milan , Genoa), white building is conversion from AIrfix La Haye Sainte sets
      figures from many makers both plastic & metal,
      METAL , Les Higgins, Douglas Miniatures, Irregular Miniatures , Lancer Miniatures,Alberken, Minifigs S range, Hagen (Germany), Minarion(Spain)
      PLASTIC, Strelets , Mars
      RESIN, BUM (Spain) Hugarian Hussars

      cheers Old John

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    3. also some Warrior 1680s range in metal, uniform sources so many , eg Robert Hall's books , CDs & colour plates, Charles Grant's Pike & Shot, Helion Books, plus books in various languages (Spanish, Italian, French, German et al , if anyone wants more details please just ask
      cheers Old John

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  2. Splendid looking game, lots of lovely figures!
    Best Iain

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