18/03/2024

WMMS 2024

A big fail for me as I forgot my camera and my phone, so I had no way to take pictures. Luckily "Tales from GHQ" did take pictures of some of the games (link)

However I did manage to get a Hungarian army for next month's DBA competition, though I will need to add some extra bits to cover the later version of the army we are using.
The only other purchase was a box of Revell Siberian Riflemen which will hopefully complete my Soviet army for Winter WW2.

17/03/2024

Brunswick Cavalry rebased

I think I originally built this unit at 1:30 scale hence the three units of the 2nd Hussars and the Uhlan unit. They were originally painted with enamels so I did have problems with paint flaking as I worked on them necessitating some repeat rework.

16/03/2024

British Hussars rebased

This needed quite a bit of work as each of the 7th, 10th and 1st KGL Hussars were 16 figure strong units. Luckily with a bit of historical fudging I created 6 different units.
The "newer" units of each pair are at the front, from right to left
* 15th Hussars became the 10th by adding yellow facings
* 7th Hussars becane the 18th by adding white facings and a light blue busby bag
* 1st KGL Hussars became the 2nd by adding white facings
My 7th and 15th Hussars were probably created shortly after Airfix released the figures in 1972 and they needed a lot of work to get them up to a passible standard.

15/03/2024

Starting up the 3D printer again

Slight change of emphasis for the latest batch, I am concentrating on printing Waco gliders for friends and filing in the space on the plate with the other bits and pieces I need.
As this was my first print after the winter I have a couple of problems to sort the Unic P304 somehow lost its front wheels and the glider fuselage had some distortion. The glider stl is a modification of the M Bergmann original and if anyone is interested in using it just leave a comment and I will send by email.

14/03/2024

Napoleonic Spanish Artillery

Although I already have two guns and crews for my Spanish, thses are in a later uniform and I felt I needed some more suitable for the early war. So I added a couple of foot guns and one horse gun using the HaT 1806 Prussian Artillery. The Horse Artillery are particularly striking and was based on a similar unit on Olicanalad's Games (link)
I will work on the limbers once I have 3D printed some mules and oxen.

12/03/2024

Hospitaller and Templar Knights

A unit each of Hospitaller and Templar knights made from the Strelets Crusaders in oriental dress, which I think is more suitable for those staying longer in the middle east.
This makes my Hospitallers and Templars into small retinues of one unit each of knights, mounted sergeants, foot sergeants and crossbowmen.

06/03/2024

WW2 Japanese SNLF

February catch up part 2 - Many years back in the mists of time I painted some Japanese infantry and copied a picture I had. Being older and somewhat wiser I realised that the only units with "green" uniforms were the Special Naval Landing Forces. So having kept the existing figures I added enough extras to make a full platoon. Hopefully it will come in handy for various island hopping games and if not it can always be used as an extra platoon for big games.
I tarted up the old figures and the extra figures are Strelets and hopefully they look fairly consistent.