Sailors and Marines

Last night I completed the sailors and Marines that I had on-hand for my upcoming Capitania General de Florida game which will involve some naval action as well as land action.  Some of the figures in the pictures below have been painted for a long number of years and some were just done this month.

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These stalwart officers will command the row-galley and some of the gunboats.  All four were recently painted.  The front three are 25mm Miniature Figurines while the one in the back is a 25mm Abbott figure.  The officer in the center is from the old MiniFig Pirate line.  The one of the left is from their Napoleonic special wagon set.  The one of the right is labeled as an AWI figure but I couldn't find a correlation of his number to the current list.

These armed sailors are also 25mm MiniFigs.  The three firing figures are from the AWI line and the three in the rear are from the old Pirate line.  I have others of these that I use as New England Continental regimentsin my AWI American army.  Three are old figures that have been painted for years and three were just painted.

These 25mm MiniFig sailors are all from the old Pirate line and have been painted for years.

These are RAFM figures from their F&IW line.  They are supposed to be SYW era British Marines but the small mitres don't exactly match what was being worn at this time.  So I've painted them as grenadiers from the 24th Foot who just happen to have been seconded for naval duty.  They will appear again as part of the converged Britannian grenadier battalion in later battles.  They were just completed last night.

The galley and the gunboats require gunners to serve their artillery and these 25mm MiniFig Pirate line gunners will fill the bill.  One figure (second row, far left) is from the Napoleonic special wagon set.  Four of the figures have been modified to hold a lever used to train the guns.  All were recently painted.

These are the rest of the gunners who have been painted for several years (or longer in the case of four of them).  All but two (center rear) are 25mm MiniFig Pirate gunners.  The two that are different are from a manufacturer whose name I have forgotten.

I wish that I had more of the old MiniFig Pirate line figures.  They made excellent ship's crew and gunners.  But I'll just have to get by with what I have for my game in two weeks.  Between now and then I'll be laboring to paint the guns for the ships and get the ships ready, including equipping them with sails.

British Navy and Egyptian Infantry

The last of my Imperial "troops" have now been completed.  They were two Naval Brigade Gatling guns and crews, three Naval officers, six sailors, and a platoon of regular Egyptian infantry.

The two Gatling guns are each manned with a crew of four gunners (one petty officer and three ratings each) and have a senior petty officer as the "battery commander."  The guns, senior petty officer (blue coat), and two ratings (brown leggings) are Ral Partha figures; the two petty officers in charge of each gun are Miniature Figurines (in yellow straw hats); and the other four ratings were cast by The London Warroom.

 The naval officers and ratings are a mix of manufacturers.  The officer in the center is the Parroom Station "Captain Jack Cole" figure.  The smaller officer on the front right is a Miniature Figurines. I cannot recall the manufacturer of the officer of the front left (unfortunately as he is a nice figure).  All six ratings are old London Warroom castings.

 

The Parroom Station officer will be my senior Royal Navy commander along the Green Nile.  I've decided to name him Captain Daniel Harrington.  He will be a distant ancestor of Admiral of the Fleet Steadholder and Duchess Honor Harrington. He is a nice figure with a stern gaze and is holding a cigar.

Finally, the Egyptian ground forces received their last troop unit, a platoon of regular infantry in the "older" white uniform.

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With the Imperial forces completed, I can now begin on the native forces.  This will be a larger contingent, consisting of a mounted leader, two 20-figure infantry units, three 12-figure cavalry units, and one 12-figure camel unit.  It will probably take me two months to complete them.  I'll posting pictures as they are finished.