From AaronP: Back home means I have basing material, another ECW project is done (400 pts)

 Hello again,

So one of the projects I was working on while I was away was an ECW (WTK) project for a game called ADLG-R. Its one of those fast play historical games like DBA or MEG (I am sure that comment will upset someone).

Anyway, I was waiting to post these until I sorted out their bases and I was going to wait till I had all the banners done, but I waited too long to order the banners. So I got impatient and here they are.

So first up are the armies commanders. Up the top you have Prince Rupert of the Rhine. I have been reading a lot about him and he is such an interesting dude. I highly recommend a book you can get for free online from the 19th Century called Rupert of the Rhine; A Biographical sketch of the life of Prince Rupert, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland ETC. It is so incredibly embellished it reads like the Grandpa from The Princess Bride is reciting it to you. So much of it is clearly made up, but man is it an entertaining read.

For prince Rupert I painted him up as he is depicted in a lot of contemporary paintings and of course is his dog boye. 

Next is Lord John Byron, who will be leading the horse. I also used some paintings of him to base his colour scheme.

Finally is Henry Tiller, who from memory I couldn't find much about so painted him how I wanted.

 Next is Prince Rupert's Blewcoats. I read that sometimes a group of musketeers would operate separately as a Forlorn Hope, so I included a seperate unit to represent that.

Three random units, two pike and shotte and one musket. These are not based on any unit in particular. I picked the flags cause I liked them.

Some Dragoons and a large gun.

Medium cav, with Prince Rupert's Regiment at the front, and then some heavy cav with the prince's Lifeguard there in red.

Overall I am really happy with the outcome. I am keen to get some banners on the cav and Prince Rupert himself. 

OK so in terms of points. I am not sure how this will work. These are all Warlords Epic scale ECW which Google tells me are 13.5mm. I am not sure how you will want to point this. Here are the figure counts.

Infantry: 119

Cavalry: 37

Horse: 2

Dog: 1

Cannon: 1

Thanks and thanks

P.S please forgive the chaos that is my painting desk

From Millsy:

Any post that contains Prince Rupert and Boye gets my seal of approval right off the bat! Good to see a fellow loyal subject of the rightful King keeping the fight alive.

Lovely work with the brush mate. I have Talbot's and Rupert's regiments in my collection too and you have pulled off the look and feel of a worn but experienced body of troops really well.

These are scored as 15mm based on previous posts so it'll add a very tidy 400 points to you tally. Nice work.

Cheers,
Millsy

From ErikP: Prussian's in Lutzen 1813 - Napoleonic's (42 points)

This is my first Painting Challenge and first entry, 40 foot figures by Warlord Games Epic (13.5mm) scale, painted as Prussia's 11th Regiment (2nd Silesian), 2nd Battalion. 

This is the beginning of a project for a Napoleonic battle at Lutzen 1813 between the French and Prussians. The campaign book I'm working off is by Dave Brown "1813 the Battles for German" written for the rule set General d'Armée. For the unit uniform reference, I used the website Uniforms during the Hundred Days Campaign.  The website is in French, but you can translate it to many languages, if need be.

Back of the line.

I am building these figures to be able to play both General d'Armée (2nd Ed), and Lasalle (2nd Ed) sets of rules.   

These figures come in ten-man strips, for two strips per base, but I cut them in half to make five-man strips for a 10-man base, these bases are 30mmx20mm. I've really enjoyed painting these, but I need to get faster. 

Basing: Also, I off set the two strips of figures on each base.  For me, this gives a nicer look to the closely packed infantry. My first painting of Epic figures was a French Infantry Battalion, and I put them directly behind each other, but to me, it looked a little too perfect.
 

Playing Napoleonic's is how I first started in Miniature Wargaming. At that time, I painted my first Army, 25mm Prussians. Followed up a few years later painting 15mm (Mini Figs) again Prussians. Now decades later, painting Prussian infantry again is like coming home after a long trip.   

This project has been on a back burner since these figures came out, and now it begins.

The points summary:

40 x 10mm foot @ 1 point = 40 points.

Total = 40 points.

Squirrel points = 0, (Prussian Napoleonic)

 

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Sylvain: Many "firsts" for you: First Challenge, first submission, new project... These little figurines are very detailed and the basing is excellent. If the rest of the army is like this, you will be hosting fabulous games. I will add 2 points for the flag. Excellent travail!