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Wednesday, 1 February 2023

FoGR TYW/ECW additions

More plastic TYW/ECW units off the production line painted speedily with speed paints!

The 'Orange Coats'

The 'Purple Coats'

The Dragoons:

The infantry I did with blue sashes for use as Swedes mainly but the sashes are not that noticeable compared to the flags which can easily be switched.

I'm definitely impressed with the speed paints, for the right units they look great and are so quick to complete a unit once you get used to them. I now have twelve pike and shot units which is probably far too many for any table size I'm likely to play on!

Now I just need to finish off a couple of extra units for the Catholics and all the Swedish cavalry (plus guns and gunners).

Wednesday, 28 December 2022

FoGR TYW Swedish

A while ago I picked up a Warlord Games 'Battalia' starter set cheaply on eBay with the vague idea of using it as the basis of a Swedish or Parliamentarian army to face my Royalists/Imperialists.

As the project was making no progress I thought I'd try speed painting an infantry unit to see how they looked, being relatively simple uniforms they seemed suitable for speed paints.

The 'Blue' unit:

The 'Greens':

The 'Yellows':

The 'Reds':

All four units with a General I got as my prize from the ADLG-R competition:

I must admit I think they came out well considering how little effort it was to paint them (I'm sure it took longer to make them, undercoat them and base them than it did to paint them!). The Flags of War flags really help as well and as with my other 28mm FoGR units can be changed to represent different nations (the flag just slides over a wire the standard bearer holds).

I have two units of Horse I could paint the same way though I'm not sure they will be so suited to speed paints and a couple of bases of Dragoons. Of course that isn't enough for an army so to have two armies I'll need to add some more, otherwise they can just be used as extra units for my existing army.

Sunday, 31 March 2019

ECW Personalities

As the ECW/TYW project is approaching being able to get on the table it was time to add a couple of personalities to the generic commander bases I'd already done.

Having looked through a few different manufacturers I finally settled on Bicorne Miniatures range of ECW personalities and sent off an order.

The first base consists of King Charles and the Royal Standard Bearer Sir Edmund Verney:

My second choice was Prince Rupert and 'Boy' his dog:

As usual the flag on the King Charles base is removable so I'll be able to swap it for a TYW one if I want to use the army as a TYW army.

I thought 'Boy' was rather small. He was a white hunting poodle who accompanied Rupert into battle and was thought by his opponents to have magic powers! He was killed at Marston Moor in 1644.

Looking at this picture painted by Louise, Princess Palatine, he does not look that fearsome:

He was also the subject of a number of propaganda leaflets on both sides:

Quite an effect for a small white poodle!