ACW Battle Diorama Video
This is a video of a small diorama set up with the terrain and figures we use for our 10 mm Longstreet games. Please enjoy and leave your comments below.
Historical Miniature Wargames
This is a video of a small diorama set up with the terrain and figures we use for our 10 mm Longstreet games. Please enjoy and leave your comments below.
My latest project is some Afghan opponents to my Cold War Soviets. These figures are from Elhiem and Sandsmodels. Even though they are quite different in style – elhiem is very naturalistic with realistic proportions, sands models are more chunky and stylised – they seem to mix quite well. This is a very early stage in the painting, with most …
This is a list of the uniform colours of Spanish Militia and Provincial Grenadier battalions in May 1808. It is based on a scan of a primary document I found on the website of the Ciudad Real tourist board, and I have translated (imperfectly, I’m sure) the main table here. Most of the battalions are dressed (at least temporarily) in brown …
My Spanish 1808 army has many small one-off units. One of these intriguing formations is the lancers that fought at Bailen “Los Garrochistas de Utrera”. This unit is fascinating as it was raised from the mounted bull-fighters, and they wore their normal work-gear into battle. I ordered a bag of Battle Honors Spanish Lancers BSP9 for these troops, but unfortunately …
In my earlier posts I’ve shown pics of the units built around the excellent 15 mm Battle Honours figures by Tony Barton. This post covers some of the Old Glory and Blue Moon figures I use for my 1808 Spanish.
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 …
This 15 mm model was a ready painted freebie in a magazine. I applied a wash, highlights and varnish, and based the model. Perfect for my Spanish armies.
Aksu’s Black Brunswickers from his collection of 1809 figures. Essex 15 mm castings.
Roundway 15 mm 1809 Austrians from Aksu’s collection. Note the hand-painted flags, as these figures come with cast flags.
Duo of Airfix 1/72 Matildas crossing a bridge with some infantry tagging along.