More civilians

A couple more IMEX civilians move off the painting tray and populate a small village.

Log Cabin

I've completed this rather large building. It's entirely scratch built from various pieces of wood.

You can also see a couple of railroad modeling trees I've bought.

The building is not entirely useless, figures can be placed on the top floor, and there are slits in the floor to shoot downward.

Dragoons

These are the Italeri British light dragoons. Nice and slim figures and a joy to paint after all the ugly Strelets ones. They have received hat conversions so they can be part of any European army.

Woodland Indians

Another distraction, this group of Italeri natives was painted & based in a day's work. They took the primer badly, so I wiped them over with some wood glue to have everything stay in place.

The Old and the Even Older

So I stripped these Airfix British Grenadiers for the 3rd time or so and painted them real nice. 

I've come to like them and thought, hey, if I can get them cheap/in bulk, they and their counterpart (Washington's Army) would be a good addition to the collection. But of course, being Out of Production, they come at horrendous prices, especially if one considers their aesthetic value.

More tricorne

Quite a handful of 18th century figures are the topic of this post. They had waited for a long time, primed and hanging out on one of my temporary storage trays. Four Strelets personality figures on the left from the Court of Peter I set, a mounted officer (perhaps the Tsar himself) and a trumpeter from the same, then the thirteen remaining figures from the Accurate AWI militia, and some others below in the post!

Civilians? On Random&Creative?

And by that I don't mean the recent surge of hits from Russia.
It's been a while since I purchased this set, I think from Drum&Flag on ebay, but only painted ten or so figures. The figures are all from the same IMEX 'Pilgrims' box. With the recent Formaggian villa build I thought I could paint some more, so here they are, doing various tasks around their two scratchbuilt cottages, the latter sort of just happened to be assembled and painted in an afternoon's work.

Redcoats

These are the figures for the "half" army of the Albionic Monarchy, whom will only be used as redcoats, and not as Böhnstadter redcoats. The cavalry is Baccus light dragoons, the infantry is H&R Prussian infantry, but seeing how detailed they are, they pass for British as well.

The idea is to swell up the ranks by using the Baccus Prussian foot in red, the guns and heavy horse, plus the three Highlander units, to create a complete army.

These units will play a prominent part in an 'Over the Hills' RPG campaign, in which the players are regimental commanders, so the facings of two of the three units match their owner's choice. Smaller battles will be conducted with Easy Tricorne, and larger ones with Maurice.

Here's a premade army composition for the latter:
NA Lethal Volleys (12) 12
NA Steady Lads (9) 21
4x ART (10) 31
6x RI Trained (36) 67
+upgrade 3 to Elite (9) 76
4x RC Trained (24) 100
+1 RI Trained when attacking
Army Morale 10

Actually, with cannons borrowed from another army (the French, Swedes or Austrians), the Brits would only need one unit of horse transferred from the Böhnstadter side to be quite autonomous in a Succession Wars campaign. There's also that little trouble that I bought the "SYW Prussian Artillery" pack fom Heroics and Ros, but there were no cannon in it. Perhaps if I could scratchbuild some guns, and use the crews for those...

Dragoons and militias

The next item in the row of tricorne fever painting posts contains twenty-four figures in two units: GNW Swedish dragoons without horses, and another dozen after the existing 25 of the Accurate Figures 'George Washington's Army' lot, which I previously confused with IMEX for the sole reason that IMEX produces the same set with the same figures.

More Continentals

With these 28 jolly chaps 94% (47 figures) of the Italeri AWI infantry box is completed. The remaining three are natives in long coats. I have a complete set of FIW Indians unpainted so they will be joining them on top of the Heap. 

What I've said previously about the figures still stands: they're rather ugly and have a bunch of useless poses, but are easy to paint. To further simplify things, I used white on the cuffs and facings, the same color as their legwear. 

Actually, even with the Napoleonic diversion, the tricorne part of the infamous Heap is reducing quickly. I'm going to finish the most recently bought Zvezda hussars first, and then the infantry figures from the GNW Russian dragoons set. These figures have small cuffs and turnbacks so they're going to be dismounted Swedish dragoons - there are ways to avoid the complete lack of Swedish infantry on the market. OK, I even considered buying the box that is on ebay for 40 Euros. 

Another BIG figure showcase

As I'm officially out of humorous titles, I came up with the above. There are more than sixty figures completed recently, some started in the past year but finished only now. There is another contingent of 28 AWI Continental infantry on the painting table, and I've started working on some Napoleonics as well. 

This post features 

• two Strelets cannon painted in Saxon colors
• the last of the Zvezda infantry painted as Saxons, this time with light blue cuffs
• twenty-five Accurate US Militia
• seventeen Italeri AWI regular infantry
• eight Italeri AWI British Light Dragoons.

6mm Militia & Mercenaries

192 Baccus figures organized to six units, three of militia and three Highlanders. Both are from the AWI range and will be used with my existing 6mm armies. As I requested, there are only three command strips per pack. 

I used a very simple painting method, a white primer after cleaning the figures, a dark brown shade on the militia and red on the Highlanders. The brown is hobby store acrylic and is close to a chocolate brown hue. Then I drybrushed the militia people with saddle brown, picked out the details and painted a few figures in brighter colors for less uniformity among the ranks. The Highlanders I just blocked in as I saw fit, then dabbed both in a black glaze, followed by adding highlights to the uniforms in their respective colors. It is a practical principle to highlight only the larger parts of the figures.

The bases, on the other hand, are something new. I used tea filter material for flocking, wet brushing it on a few places with green. It has the advantage of removing the difference in elevation between the plasticard base and the bases of the metal figure strips. On the other hand it has to be painted somehow, which is rather difficult if one does not want to add some green to the figures also. I think I will return to using static grass on the Frenchmen I'm about to paint up.