The League of Augsburg
The Battle of Foulness, 1st May 1672, Part 2 - Battle report.
Returning to the Essex coastline to bring you the news from the fleets... whether you align with the Dutch, English or French... here it comes.
Turn 5
Many vessels, feeling they had the advantage of opponents in gunnery duels, attempted to back sail and hold position to secure victory. The Ruby, surrounded and taking heavy fire, was shot to...
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| The most dramatic moment of the battle seen from the north. |
Turn 5
Many vessels, feeling they had the advantage of opponents in gunnery duels, attempted to back sail and hold position to secure victory. The Ruby, surrounded and taking heavy fire, was shot to...
The Battle of Foulness, May 1st 1672 Part 1 Battle report
The war between the English and Dutch intensifies with King Charles' fleet desperate to expunge the shame of 1667 which haunts the navy, torments national pride and the authority of the Crown.
Dutch admirals are brazen and bold and have little fear of probes and forays into the very heart of home waters. One such 'cruise' is moving down the English coast off Essex and appears to be heading into the...
Swedish regiments... can't leave those Blues out!
To balance things out having shared pictures of the Russian forces massing for Crisis 2019 I thought it only right to get the Boys in Blue in front of the camera too.
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| Vastmanland Regiment |
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| Skaraborg Regiment |
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| Tremanning Regiment |
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| Narke Varmland Regiment |
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| Liv Dragoon Regiment |
Spoiling myself
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| Thick of the action at Foulness. |
Work has been pretty all consuming of late and I have been promising myself a gaming treat for a while merely as a little carrot to keeping me wading through the grind. The naval rules have been growing in detail and feel and during my travels. A point system and some of the random elements which I like to incorporate in rule mechanics to remove player control have...
Tales from the riverbank (Medway) - revisiting the battleships
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| Remember these? I moved to V2 for each |
I very much enjoyed customizing the Tumbling Dice models for the large English men o'war 'in ordinary' which I have shown previously in some posts. The more work I do with these 1/2400 models the more confident I get in the scope of conversions.
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| V2s in the rear V1s to the fore |
I was very happy with the versions I did until I thought about simulating their...
Media work
Been busy talking to some media moguls in the hobby over the last couple of weeks. I did a podcast interview for Henry Hyde's Battlechat Live 32 which seemed to fly by but actually lasted two hours. Well, Henry and I are never short of a word or dozen and the experience was candid and interesting. He has a nice interviewing style which opens the interviewee up before they know it. Henry is a...
Lots of lovely Russian regimental packs
I set up quite a lot of re-shoots for some of the items in the shop whilst photographing some new products. I am working my way through Russian unit deals so here are some of those which are now available in the Warfare Miniatures shop combined with some existing products revisited:
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| Russian two-gun battery with field guns and wagon @ £40 |
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| The popular RB1 Russian infantry in tricorne firing and... |
Lots of lovely Russian regimental packs
I set up quite a lot of re-shoots for some of the items in the shop whilst photographing some new products. I am working my way through Russian unit deals so here are some of those which are now available in the Warfare Miniatures shop combined with some existing products revisited:
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| Russian two-gun battery with field guns and wagon @ £40 |
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| The popular RB1 Russian infantry in tricorne firing and... |
News I thought you might be interested in.. GNW cavalry
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| Swedes in karpus ready 1 |
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| Swedes in karpus ready 2 |
We have some nice news for all you Swedish and Russian collectors out there...
Cavalry in karpus and kartuz. Initially I thought, a pack of each but we've got a bit wild.
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| Swedes in karpus charging 1 |
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| Swedes in karpus charging 2 |
Four packs of Swedes - two charging and two ready plus drummers to add to the Command packs.
For the Russians - two packs plus the...
Wrecked - sinking and sunken vessel markers
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| A French 1st rate sails past a wrecked English 1st rate |
I wanted to make visual representations of ships that had taken a bit of a hammering during action and used some of the Tumbling Dice wreck markers as made whilst doing some work myself with
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| Dutch wrecks for 4th/5th rates and Fireships |
bits and pieces of other ships which I had cannibalized for various reasons. These all came out quite well. The...
The dust is settling.. With Talon and Claw reflections and a QRS!
The book reached its first customer on August 16th and now seems to have arrived in most corners of the globe. It was a massive relief to finish this project which had been all consuming for over eighteen months.
The final decision to print is always a bit like betting £50,000 on red. You know there is a risk that something will not be right but having checked and checked, you can't find it. It was...
Guest Post: The work of Gareth Lane Dutch troops 1690s
I have the privilege of receiving photos of the work of many talented gamers add collectors interested in our period.
Recently I was sent some wonderful pictures of units from the collection of Gareth Lane. I was very taken with the style of the units and the painting.
Gareth has used wonderful castings from North Star's 1672 range and has depicted some fine units from the forces of the Dutch...