Showing posts with label 28mm wargames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 28mm wargames. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Napoleonic Wargaming Blogs for January 2025 - yes a New Year and you miniatures mad folks have been busy....

Ken's back on the painting joymill with his Plancenoit project continuing in 28mm.  Here is shows his French battery and a bit later in the video the start of what will be a lot of Landwehr: click on the pciture below to go to the viudeo (for some reason I'm struggling to embed).  Thanks Yarkshire Gamer.

A picture of painted 28mm model soldiers. They are abattery fo four French guns from the Napoleonic wars with crew.  All in 28mm lead from Calpe minaitures





 

https://youtu.be/itz6ze92xPA?si=D9hZQhkpcBu1z4AZ


Heretical gaming have been working on some 6mm Saxon's.

Sparkers Wargames played an epic scale Quatre Bras using Lasalle 2 rules.  Neat looking terrain and figures








Over on Bloody Big Battles Albuera gets fought out with some reflections.

Will's Wargames is a wonderful look at 20mm ish wargaming - from Hinton Hunt's through to 3d printed figures. Here he is updating his Prussian Kurassiers.  Meanwhile over on the actual Hinton Hunt blog some bad weather reports and some glorious images of a game, Waterloo no less!  Below - the French advance on Hougomont.


 Chasseur has posted a refurb of some Perry Marie Louises - crisp clean painting



set during Lutzen 1813 and depicts the afternoon counter attack by the Imperial Guard around the 'four villages' defended by a Prussian and Russian force. French had 32 units with 2 Old Guard,12 Young Guard, 4 Line, 4 Second Line some Skirmish screens and supported by Guard Lancers and Line Lancers with several batteries of guns (some Guard standard with one Battery static on heights), they also had 45 Morale.

The French had to place 2 Brigades in off-table reserve (they choose the Old Gde and Gde Cavalry).

Allies had 24 units with 4 Prussian Line, a Prussian Guard Brigade with 2 Gde Musketeers, a small (3UI) unit of Gde Jager, 4 Russian Grenadiers (although Pavlov unit starts as a village garrison), 4 Russian Second Line, Skirmish screens and Prussian Cavalry Dragoons and Hussars, a unit of Russian Gde Hussars and several gun batteries, they started with 35 Morale.
Game was another cracker with lots of action and incident.

For more see here 

Calpe's Peter Fitzgerald has finally decided to retire from producing figures - he still wants sot sculpt but his looking for someone to take on the making.  I've bought his figures over the years and love them for ease of painting and animation. 


 








and with some Saxon Command figures and casualties, a game or two and a some thought on General d'Armee 2.  Delighted to see this blog back!  

Phil Robinson is still painting peninsular French and there are some gorgeous 6mm Baccus Prussian reinforcements painted over in Scrivsland




One Lover Ray at don't throw a one is painting some fab 28mm Retreat from Moscow figures - including a Wurtemberg contingent:

I didn't want to use all the Foundry figures otherwise they would all look the same, so I included 3 plastic Perry figures and one Perry metal figure. I also added a scarf in the 4th facing colours to the only marching figure


Gonsalvo presents the freshly painted "Portuguese 23rd Line, "2nd Almeida".

A very old style Bavarian General graces the pages of Miniture Minions - mooch through those pages for wonderful old style figures. 

That's all I've found this month. It's been a delight - thank you all. 




Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Napoleonic Blogs - some things I found recently.

 

I was frankly amazed at the quality of information and images in the site https://miniatureaddiction.info.

I really good example is this on ... 




Go and gorge on the fab pics of this Battle of Borodino on Dave's One Man His Brush blog... here's a taster 



https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/  talks us through building an Austrian Farmhouse circa 1809... click to have a nose at it finished. 
 



Valleyboy blogged months ago about Napoleonic commanders. I love the vibrancy of the painting here



and ...







along with Bavarians.... 








Then there is the return of Partizan: 

https://youtu.be/HJ5Wk5GREkM



Friday, 10 March 2017

28mm Milan Guard 1813 - Painted Wargames Foundry Figures - Perry Sculpts

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

This is a unit I painted many moons ago as part of a slightly mad plan to create Bertrand's 1813 IV Corps in it's entirety in 28mm. I was tempted by the variety - it includes an Italian Division and Wurttemberg Division.  Needless to say I only managed to do part of the division.  I'll try and dig out some more of the Italians and a bizarre experiment with painting Wurttemberg flats, for speed!

I got the inspiration from a couple of books:  Petrie's volume on the 1813 campaign and "Napoleon's Grand Armee of 1813 by Scott Bowden". 

The last book has a series of unit lists for the army at various points in the campaign. The Milan Guard was in Moroni's 3rd Brigade of the 15th Division - commanded by Fontanelli.  They fought alongside three battalions of the  7th Italian Line Regiment at Gross-Beeren, Dennewitz, Wartenburg, Leipzig & Hanau.   The battalion had six line companies - no "elite" companies. 

The figures are metal 28mm Wargames Foundry French Infantry  (I think mainly FN 080 - marching in campaign dress) - one of the last lots sculpted by the Perry's I think. They are beautiful figures and a pleasure to paint.  The flag is hand painted and pretty much to size - but feels a little too small.

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry



I need to work on my photography - any tips on how to get better depth of field would be greatly appreciated. 
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

Monday, 20 February 2017

Mike Owen 28mm Wild West Cowboys Painted as 7th cavalry.


Here's a set of 28mm Wild West Figures Painted not as cowboys but as a group of renegade US cavalry.  They are all figures sculpted by Mike Owen of Artizan Designs.  Crisp clean mouldings with action but also really simple to paint. 

I think I probably painted these 8 to 10 years ago, mainly using Foundry and Vallejo Model Color paints (I've always loved the texture and richness of pigment in the Vallejo paints - they leave a wonderful matt finish which also takes washes and other treatments well).













Selling - 28mm Young Guard - Flanquer Chasseurs Painted 2 battalions

  Here's the link if you want to have a look :  They're the fab green uniforms (with higher officer wearing their blue Middle Guard ...