Bits and Pieces

Couple of extra figures completed for 02 Hundred Hours. Another dog team and some casualty markers where the raiders have managed to be successful and make a “quite kill” in the game.

Something that has been sat staring at me undercoated for a few years were the Lighthouses that were produced for Cruel Seas. I finally managed to get them completed and ready for use in the game.

Having a change and trying to meet one of my aims for the year I dug out the Anhalt Battalion that fought as part of the Confederation of the Rhine contingent in the Peninsular War.

Different from the normal blue and white of the French forces with dark green jackets and grey trousers with a lovely pink facing colour.

The standard was from Maverick Miniatures – one of their cloth flags.

I got the following “Soldiers of Fortune” as a present so it seemed rude not to paint them so that I can use them for O2 Hundred Hours.

As a change from painting ancients I looked in the “pile of potential” and pulled out a battalion of French Young Guard in campaign dress. These are from Elite Miniatures (who by the way give a unique experience in their online store 😉).

So the intention was to give a less uniform appearance so trousers were painted in multiple colours (blue, brown and white). However as you can see from the photographs I wasn’t paying attention when I based the figures up so all the white trousered individuals have been put in the rear ranks doh!

This also brought home why it takes me so long to paint Napoleonic figures when I put away the 23 paints I had used on the figures 😂.

The 02 Hundred Western Desert expansion came with a few unusual figures and I finally got around to painting them up.

These were a pilot and Rommel for the Germans to act as objectives and four LRDG figures all from Artizan Miniatures.

As a quick aside from painting ancient figures I knocked up a couple of dog handlers for 02 Hundred Hours, Now these are from the original starter box so are in European theatre late war uniforms but as is my want I use the rules for the North African theatre so they got the DAK treatment.

One thing I have to do is try and sort out where the leads got broken but that is a problem for another day.

While plugging away at my ancient romans I also managed to finish off another units of Confederate cavalry for the American Civil War.

These are Dixon miniatures (something of a marmite figure range) but I like them especially the ACW range and they do “take paint” well.

This unit has been completed in a range of grey and butternut colours to reflect the lack of “unformality” of the time in the Confederate forces.