Ready for action! Well, the bases will need to be flocked once I decide on how I want them but they could take the field today if the need arose. The odds are starting to even out. Ragged Republican skirmishers and that General next, haven’t had a good excuse for painting striped trousers in years. Continue reading The Cannonade of Belmont

A little bit more done today. Looking over my artillery moulds I decided that the old Karoliner/1750 French gun would not serve as anything but a 3 pounder with these larger figures but that the Rosbach 12pdr was a suitable size and shape to pass as a Gribeauval 8 pdr. Given that the games are most likely to be affairs of outposts, a four pounder seemed … Continue reading Bringing up the guns

Enough ACW for a bit. My latest Prince August moulds arrived and have been tested. LtoR Meisterzinn in later bicorne, Zinnbrigade w 1792 bicorne from PA Prussian NCO mould, said PA mould being converted to artillery officer, PA gunner with same early bicorne. (Juryrigged with plasticene to give me an idea what they might look like.) It wasn’t the best of conditions, hot and humid … Continue reading Ca ira! Ca ira! Ca ira!

I have finally finished converting my 1775 Royal Highland Emigres to 1793 Black Watch. Mostly this consisted of building the bonnet up into an early version of the feather bonnet, and repainting a few details. Sources on details of Highland uniforms in the 1790s are scarce, vague or  contradictory. For example,  the feather bonnet developed during this decade but pictures vary from a few feathers … Continue reading How regimental traditions are made.

A Scottish soldier. And a squadron of Republican French Hussards. Can they take him? Should he take his musket off his shoulder now? Continue reading There was a soldier

Its just been one of those weeks, nasty cold, nasty weather, urgent yard work when the sun appeared and……well, who’s never been there? But if there wasn’t time, energy and enthusiasm to push on full speed, one can always take smaller bites. I’d already decided to simplify the details but now I decided to cut the batch down to 3 figures and finish them then … Continue reading Push on! Push on!

Huzzah 2019 is over, preparations for 2020 have begun! I’m a little stuck at the moment since I need some modelling putty for conversions and for some new master figures but these Prince August SYW Hussars will do fine as les Hussards de la Mort. Image from Wiki article. Sure, in some realities they only lasted as an independent unit until 1793 but on my … Continue reading Finnigan, Begin Again

I’m not quite ready for this year’s Huzzah, almost but not quite. So, logically (?) I started work on next year’s game by doing a test conversion of a F&IW highlander into a War of the First Coalition or French Revolutionary War highlander. I’m not convinced the full belted plaid was worn over to the Low Countries but I have two uniform paintings of it … Continue reading Did you say you wanted a revolution?