Historical Miniature Wargames
My latest project has been a 15 mm Spanish Army for the early years of the Peninsular War, and I hope you find these notes useful. You can read about my infantry here, this post is a brief note about the cavalry figures I’ve used. The paintwork is still lacking some details – especially the hussars would benefit from having …
I used Essex and Gladiator for Dutch force that fought with the French. The major faux-pas with these figures is the lack of the orange side-plume in the shako. Well, the end result is good-enough-for-gaming in my opinion.
A fellow gamer recently asked online whether anyone has information on Roundway 15 mm Russian Napoleonics. This is a lesser known brand manufactured by Navwar in the UK. As it happens, I have quite a few of their figures. I quickly took a few snaps of the figures I had lying around, so that you can get an idea of …
I have been painting some cold war era soviets for our Force on Force games. Sandsmodels from the UK has recently re-launched their 20 mm Soviet motor rifle infantry and VDV figures. They also do engineers and artillery crew. UAZ staff car. The nice resin model comes with four metal crew figures. The picture is from one of our Force …
Miniatures – British and allies For those who are unfamiliar with the “gaming distance” the term refers to the distance you view your miniatures from when gaming. This usually means a metre or yard. BRITISH Miniatures Janne tried to purpose paint each British and Portuguese unit that took part to the battle. However as the terrain building took somewhat longer …
We’ve reviewed each manufacturer’s entire 15 mm napoleonic Swedish -range even though these all include figures unusable for the war of 1808. Also please bear in mind that our knowledge on such troops isn’t up to par with the 1808 stuff. If you are knowledgeable in such matters and see blatant mistakes by us please feel free to drop us …