'Red Contingent' for Gudugan Pudugan

I continue churning out painted 6mm lasercut figures from Commission Figurines, for my Gudugan Pudugan (that is Ancients era) project. I plan to have enough figures to field large battles.

I had to have some sort of organization system for the 500+ infantry and 200 cavalry, so I started colour coding them, this is the first batch completed, the part that is painted red.

6mm Ancients Test Basing

I made a larger order with Commission Figurines in September/October. I'm actually kind of slow on reducing stockpile, the Bloody figures I bought in April are just being completed. Anyway, half of that order was about eight hundred 6mm lasercut Ancient figures, infantry and cavalry. They are meant for the late Republican Roman period, but what I really wanted was some generic bods for my Gudugan Pudugan rules.

There are seven troop types in Gudugan Pudugan (which can of course be used to fight historical battles as well), and once I had the figures and the bases required, I set out to try my basing concept which would help discern the troop types and give armies a unified overall look.

Kickstarting a project

There is no better way to delve into a new period than painting 170-odd figures in one go. This is what I did with the promised Hungarian War of Independence project, for which the 6mm MDF range by Commission Figurines seemed a reasonable choice.

The fruits of my labour are the following: three units of Hussars, two dragoons, one cuirassiers; a Hungarian, a German and a Honvéd unit of foot.

As it is a very local conflict and therefore not widely known, I'm going to share interesting trivia as things progress. 

The MDF army marches to battle.

I have finally completed the Commission Figurines MDF lot with these three units of foot and horse. I've also painted up a bunch of scratchbuilt cannon with Heroics and Ros gunners.

A Tiny Update

Tiny both in scale and scope, a couple of buildings and two more Commission Figurines MDF units for my Imaginary Leuwenthal / GNW Russian army had been completed. 

I did not like going all green, so I chose this pair, the Ingermanland foot and Arkhangelgorod horse with yellow coats.

The houses are typical to the Hungarian countryside, their roofs are made from tea to look like stacked reeds.

First MDF troopers

I thought the next 6mm army should be cost-effective so I ordered some infantry and cavalry in bicorne hats from Commission Figurines. This has been planned for a long time, and I can safely say I don't regret purchasing them.

These would be ImagiNation figures suitable for games with other 6mm armies or proxies for SYW/GNW Russians.