The League of Augsburg
The Walls of Limerick, Part II
Clarence Harrison - A little bit of math, lots of carving, and possibly some harsh words later...
The initial step, and the most important to get right, was to layout the front wall. This is where most of the harsh words came in. All of the angles had to meet up with each other and line up with the edges of the boards.
The walls were detailed by carving scattered stones with a scalple and then going...
The Walls of Limerick, Part I
Clarence Harrison - Every so often I get the urge to launch some sort of stupid large project. Ever since my partner's series on the Walls of Derry, I've wanted to do something similar. My trip to Derrylast year reinforced the desire. Finally, I'm planning to run some games at a small local show if my schedule works out - The Guns of August in Newport News, Virginia. Rather than just set up...
Eighth Wonder? Texel ship diorama Part 1
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| I was almost incontinent with excitement on seeing this level of detail. |
I am an unashamed Naval Nut and always have been. It doesn't matter what the subject is, if its in the water and looks remotely interesting I'll be all over it.
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| Den Helder is home port to the Dutch fleet - Belgian frigate Leopold I in centre |
Having accidentally come across some pictures of the ship diorama at Texel about a year...
Amazing diorama work from Tactica
This French and Indian Wars diorama is truly stunning work. Scale is 15 or 20mm. The makers are a German team from somewhere in the north of the country.
I saw another piece of their work through photos which is an enormous Napoleonic diorama with several Austrian infantry regiments depicted on an 1:1 scale.. yes you read that correctly.
Enjoy!
A Guide to Basing - The Quindia Studios Way
Clarence Harrison - Which means lazy! I've gotten a couple of questions recently about how I base my models and I thought I'd detailed this here before, but... well, I couldn't find it so here you go. This is an easy method that still gives good results.
I mainly use three materials, fine ballast from Woodland Scenics, coffee grounds (the same as the mid-level texture on my terrain boards), and...
I mainly use three materials, fine ballast from Woodland Scenics, coffee grounds (the same as the mid-level texture on my terrain boards), and...
Irish Militia
Clarence Harrison- One of the new things in Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings, is the ability to model different pike to shot ratios on the tabletop. I'm running a game for some friends early next month and I had everything I needed for the scenario except a unit of All Pike. It's been on my 'to do' list for a while to paint a brigade of non-uniformed troops to use for the early war...
Kurpfalz Feldherren Wargame Club, Germany
We meet up with the guys from Kurpfalz Feldherren at Tactica, Hamburg, Crisis, Antwerp and even at Partizan. They do wonderful games at least two of which have been featured on the blog before. Lovely bunch of people, totally into their hobby and it really shows.
This wonderful game was I think Juergen told me, inspired by some of the Donnybrook Dark ideas (well the town at least). I just love the...
Poltava part 2 - the terrain
Jon and Diane used artificial grass for the terrain and the manual paint job was very effective. The playing surface is very robust and would take a fair bit of punishment if unfortunate enough to experience it.
The table was twenty feet by six and the paints used were I understand, commercial emulsions. The paint job was completed by running the mats over a wallpapering table.
The redoubts are...
Guest post -Swedish artillery
Some wonderful work by William Nguyen Tan Ho from France on Swedish artillery from the Great Northern War.
William has done a super job on these chaps and the basing just sets it off nicely. I was very happy to receive the pictures and share them on the blog.
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| Wonderful limber piece too! |
Lots of Dragoons
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| Painted as Hanoverian Dragoons - WLOA58 and WLOA60 |
I have been slow off the mark painting and basing my dragoons but the new codes have sold very well so far despite having no oxygen of publicity.
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| Painted as Enniskillen Dragoons 1689-1692 WLOA58 & WLOA60 |
So, time to give them a little ventilation and let everyone see how they look in nice units. Painted by myself, Toggy, Rob Goodier and Jim Masson...
Poltava part 2 - the wargame
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| A late 'battle shot' with the Swedes through the redoubt line |
Jon is very experienced at running large games as he owned and managed a wargaming centre on Crete for several years.
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| The Swedes columns lined up to storm the redoubt line before the battle commenced |
The plan for the one day show in Antwerp was to steer the Battle of Poltava 1709 through its various distinct phases in order to get to the...
Some artillery vignettes
I have been working on some artillery vignettes recently and have only just gotten round to photographing them for the blog.
Although we do not have specifically French gunners yet I shaved off the single shoulder strap from our RA1 AND RA3 GNW Russian gunners to create a heavy mortar crew for the French army in Flanders.
The base is dressed with various pieces from the siege equipment set including...