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Rawdon Raises an Army, Part Three
Thomas Grove - I've finally finished all my horse for Rawdon's army! Here they are arrayed for battle. No doubt just fleeing Dromore. LOL
Hugh Magill anchors the flank with his veteran troopers. While Rawdon leads is huge dragoon regiment of 3 squadrons personally.
The man himself Arthur Rawdon the Gardner of Ireland! I gave him a fancy uniform laced with gold, and went for a smart Bone colored...
What a F*****g day!
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| We had such a great show.. what could go wrong? |
I do not usually resort to expletives in my blog contributions but today is an exception. Having completed a very successful and enjoyable CRISIS 2018 in Antwerp, Toggy and I had planned an early start on Sunday - breakfast at 0830, on the road for 0900 - Ramillies by 1015, Neerwinden by 1400.
Having checked out at 0900 I reached the car and fumbled in...
The work of Dino Todaro
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| Swedish Regiment Vasterbotten - the basing really sets off the unit superbly |
Wargaming takes some unusual turns. When we visited Tuscany on holiday I arranged to meet an Italian gamer, collector and painter with whom I had corresponded for a couple of years. When we met in his beautiful home town of Lucca we really hit it off.
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| Detail of the three stands of Vasterbotten Regiment |
Since then we have met...
Come on, more? Really? Warfare Minis Guest Gallery 5
I've managed to get to a fifth in the series of Warfare painted miniatures from the brushes of excellent painters whilst maintaining the quality!
Here we have some super, stylish Saxons from the very prolific brush of Roger Castle. Roger can be found evangelising about the GNW on several fora at the moment. His work output is high and he has done a wonderful job on his Warfare minis.
Friend and...
Rawdon Raises an Army, Part Two
Thomas Grove - Rawdon's forces begin to muster!
So that's two units of Horse finished! Hugh Magill's Dragoons with Hugh Magill himself as a personality. As well as the 3rd squadron of Rawdon's Horse!
I went with a drab uniform for Rawdon's dragoons using Foundry Granite and Forest Green for the cuffs.
Magill's dragoons I went with a red (foundry terracotta) uniform with green (forest green)...
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon!
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| 12 x 6 custom built and scaled central section of Waterloo I made a few years back |
After so many years of doing it, we are getting tired of lugging around car fulls of terrain boards. Storage and transport thereof is a pain. I have admired the teddy-bear massacres of the last few years and recall being impressed by the Waterloo terrain of the Loughton? Strike Force at Salute a few years back and...
Heidelberg Castle - photo walk through
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| The large tower on the right (Dicker Turm) was mined by Louis XIV's army in 1693 |
It was my good fortune to find myself in Heidelberg for a couple of days and to explore its Thirty Years War and War of the Palatinate history.
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| Many of the defensive works were repeatedly reconstructed after sieges during the TYW and Nine Years War |
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| The view from the castle down into the town and the Alte Bruecke over the... |
Kurpfalz Feldherren do the '45 at Tactica
Some Summer pictures of a winter time game from Germany.
Those very talented chaps - Jurgen, Sven, Stefan and Mirko aka the Kurpfalz Feldherren have done it again with this wonderful '45 Rebellion Donnybrook game at Tactica.
Their table was beautiful and contained four forces - French, Highlanders,...
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| Awa' in the Heilands - Speed Bonnie Boat and all that stuff.. |
Those very talented chaps - Jurgen, Sven, Stefan and Mirko aka the Kurpfalz Feldherren have done it again with this wonderful '45 Rebellion Donnybrook game at Tactica.
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| This looks suitably grim and Scots |
Gunter's video of LoA Waterloo 2015 + Blog links
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| My own 2nd Dragoons |
ATTENTION: LOADS OF GOOD LINKS ALL OVER THIS POST!
As a 'non-Facebooker' I often miss bits and pieces of hobby stuff. This particular 2+ minutes of video footage was taken by Germanicus at our 2015 re-fight of Waterloo in Derby.
Adrian made the terrain, Toggy, Gerry, Peter, Barry and several other chaps provided the 8,000 or so figures. The event was a decisive result and the game...
Principality of Catalonia (Guest Post)
Hi everyone, my name is José María Cagiga (Chema, 1986) in the League of Augsburg forum, first of all I want to thank Barry and Clarence for allowing me to participate in their blog.
I am a wargamer based in Cartagena, Kingdom of Spain, and since 2013-14 I am very interested in the armies of the League of Augsburg war, following an advertisement that I saw in a magazine, then I discovered the...
I am a wargamer based in Cartagena, Kingdom of Spain, and since 2013-14 I am very interested in the armies of the League of Augsburg war, following an advertisement that I saw in a magazine, then I discovered the...
Principality of Catalonia (Guest Post)
Hi everyone, my name is José María Cagiga (Chema, 1986) in the League of Augsburg forum, first of all I want to thank Barry and Clarence for allowing me to participate in their blog.
I am a wargamer based in Cartagena, Kingdom of Spain, and since 2013-14 I am very interested in the armies of the League of Augsburg war, following an advertisement that I saw in a magazine, then I discovered the...
I am a wargamer based in Cartagena, Kingdom of Spain, and since 2013-14 I am very interested in the armies of the League of Augsburg war, following an advertisement that I saw in a magazine, then I discovered the...