The League of Augsburg
Warfare Miniatures Zombies!
The concept work began last spring on my flight home from Scotland. I...
GNW Swedish cavalry - gallop back to the field
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| CHARGING CODE 1 |
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| CHARGING CODE 2 |
In addition to the originally planned 4 trooper sets and two command sets we have two dragoon drummers! So, reinforcements we picked up on the way.
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| COMMAN... |
More Donnybrook Dark
Clarence Harrison - Right! My painting in 2017 was not up to my normal production. That is going to change in 2018.
I started this second force for my Donnybrook Dark project (you can see my Scandavians hereif you missed 'em) on New Year's Eve - yep, a wild night. I assembled, converted, undercoated, painted, based, photographed, AND freakin' blogged about forty models in seven days. This...
I started this second force for my Donnybrook Dark project (you can see my Scandavians hereif you missed 'em) on New Year's Eve - yep, a wild night. I assembled, converted, undercoated, painted, based, photographed, AND freakin' blogged about forty models in seven days. This...
New product news from Warfare Miniatures
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| Set 1 - Lobster helmet, armour and swords |
ECW/TYW Cavalry
These three codes will be released sometime in January 2018. It has taken them a long time to reach the market having been sculpted bout five or six years ago.
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| Set 2 lobster helmet, armour and pistols |
There are currently nine sculpts eight of which are pictured here. The missing, pistol armed trooper in lobster pot belongs to set 2. In the...
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! |
Feature- Russian Commanders
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| Shermetev, Menshikov, Repnin |
From existing paintings it is difficult to definitively decide exactly how a particular historical figure looked. Statuesque and heroic or pox faced and pot bellied? Hardly the latter considering the sitter usually commissioned the artwork and nobody wants to look ugly in a 17th or 18th century version of the modern pouting selfie!
We chose three colourful characters...
Warfare Christmas Cracker 2017
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| Oh, Oh! (or is that Ho Ho?) It's that dodgy bloke from the mall again.. |
So what do we have in store (literally) for Christmas.
Well there is the £100.00 GNW Brigade
It contains: 4 x 20 model battalions + 1 mounted Commander + 1 light gun with crew.
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| Each battalion contains 10 musketeers + 5 pikemen + 5 Command models |
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| Gun crews will be a random choice from the 3 different sets SA1, SA2 and SA3 |
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| One of... |
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...
Poltava Part 1 - taster of an epic
This game was a year in the making and is the result of the hard work of Jon and Diane Sutherland who created it as a commission for a private collector.
I have been intimately involved with the development as all of the figures used are Warfare Miniatures and there are roughly 2,500 plus about 400 horses here! I counted 'em, Jon painted 'em and Diane built the terrain!
The commission was...
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...
At last - painted Russian mounted Dragoons
These are masters. I had none of the new horses to hand but this shows how well they sit on the existing horse types.
I have painted six troopers which come in two different packs of three. They are painted as the Moskovski Dragoons who wore a white uniform faced white.
I also managed to get one of the Horse Grenadier codes painted too. The also look pretty smart.
They were great fun to paint and...
Guest post: GNW Swedes by Don Crane
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| The Brigade in all its glory |
The Blog has featured the work of several painters over the years and I always enjoy seeing how painters and gamers create and interpret figures and unit construction.
I recently had the privilege of seeing some truly wonderful pieces of work from Don Crane who has been building a GNW Swedish army.
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| Halsinge or Halsingland Regiment (from up north) |
The shots of his force so...