Showing posts with label Westphalian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westphalian. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 February 2024

From KentG: 18mm Westphalian AB miniatures unbased (108pts)

 For this post we have more of the 18mm AB miniatures painted as Westphalian's. AB's are so nice to paint they almost paint themselves. I am now in the final stretch of this commission.


first up we have ADC's took a bit to find the right information
 on these and I'm still not quite sure I got it perfectly right




I used the same blue I use for my 28mm French which I think works.




we have 8 x Chevaleger


Next up 4 Guard Du Corps

and then 24 artillery crew and 6 guns



                    Points unbased figures

                   18 x cavalry 4pts each =72pts -(25%) = 54pts
                    24 x foot 2pts each = 48pts (-25%) = 36pts
                    6 x artillery 4pts each = 24pts (-25%) = 18pts
                        
                                                            Total 108pts

From Millsy: More lovely work in 18mm from you mate. I know you don't enjoy these from our discussions but you cannot argue with the quality of your work regardless. Cracking stuff and thanks for doing the math for me! 



Friday, 26 January 2024

From KentG: 28mm ACW Union limber, 18mm Westphalian commission (142 points)

Morning everyone just a small submission this week due
to Commission work taking over, First up we have a 
6 horse Union Limber, This was part of a large stash of 
metal and plastics that  I swapped for painting some minis.
The figures are 28mm Metals, except for the Limber itself which was 
missing so I've used a plastic limber. I have a confederate one that is
 also missing the limber so will do the same with that in the coming weeks


I love limbers and I rather dislike them, you might say what?
well I love painting them and they just look amazing on the battle field
as eye candy, but they are so big and heavy they are a right pain to store and 
I've even found they don't fit on some battlefields.



The three guys on the limber are my favorite, they look like best of mates 

Westphalian Army

Next up we have unbased commission. For those that don't already know 
I'm  a commission painter and have been for 18 years now.
the annoying thing about this is you don't get to paint a lot of your own minis
This challenge I'm trying my best to do my figures but the commission work 
has a schedule which I try to stick to, which means they can wait no longer.

Sapper de la Genie du Garde
12 foot

The figures are beautiful AB miniatures and have travelled to me from Australia 
and end up in New York so they will be well travelled

The army is Westphalian which I have never painted before so has been a 
challenge to try and find correct uniforms.

Guard Carbinier Battalion
12 foot

Guard Chasseurs Battalion
12 foot

Grenadier Battalion
10 foot one Cav 

This is about a third of the figures so there will be a few more before 
I can get back to my own minis.

            Points 

            28mm, 6 horse limber: 6 horses, 6 figures, 1 x limber = 70pts
            18mm unbased infantry x 46 = 69pts [Millsy... -25% points for unbased]
            18mm unbased cavalry x 1 = 3pts [Millsy... -25% points for unbased]

            Total 142 points

From Millsy: Only a crazy man paints limbers. There, I've said it. At least when you do paint them you do a cracking job mate! Beautiful brushwork on the Westphalians too, especially the grenadiers and sappers of the guard who are absolutely glorious. 142 more points for you tally!

Sunday, 30 January 2022

IanS: 15mm Ancients and Napoleonics (412 Points)

 Dear All

Due to a family illness I have not posted for a couple of weeks and although I have painted a few figures I had not based any.  So this week I have been frantically basing figures.

First up Ancients, this post is just Ancient British.  The wonders of this challenge is that every time I go to my spares/eBay box I find more figures to paint.  So last weeks dip into the box for a spare wheel for a chariot uncovered two bags of Celts I had won on eBay.  This means that I have enough for another clan, 5 warbands, 2 light infantry and a light cavalry unit.

So first Up are 4 warbands, I recognise some of the figures as being Donnington have no idea on the rest.





Here we have 2 light infantry units again a mixture of manufacturers mostly unknown.


The mounted arm for this army, a unit of light cavalry and a chariot unit.  




So only have 4 warband, a slinger, Light Cavalry and General and then the army will be finished, may be for this Friday as there is an ancient game at the club.

Total Army will be 30 warband, 12 Light infantry, 6 Light Cavalry, 3 Chariot units and 3 generals.  The last unit to be done for this army is a suggestion of a band, the singing slingers which are being converted as we speak.


So points 

Warband 48 x 15mm figures = 96pts

Light Infantry 16 x 15mm figures = 32pts

Light Cavalry  8 x 15mm figures = 32pts

Chariots 8 x 15mm figures plus 4 chariots (4pts each) = 32pts

Total I would like to claim - 192pts

In addition I would like to claim a Squirrel pt for the warband. 


Napoleonic

In the continuation of finding units that are not French to use the Epic Waterloo figures acquired through Wargames Illustrated we have a Westphalian Cuirassier Brigade consisting of two Cuirassier regiments, and two gun horse artillery battery.  One of my many pet hates is white uniforms i just cannot get it right, so when the option of what uniform to use for the 1st regiment, my son said white, oh happy days.







Now i did say on my last post that i would put some comparison shots of these figures against other makes.  I only have two makes of Napoleonic cavalry, Lancashire Games and Minifigs.  Left is Minifigs centre Epic and right Lancashire games .





As you can see there is not a lot of difference between them.  The big difference is cost with metal figures ranging from 80 -100p these come in circa 22p.  


Next up more Wurttembergers, two line battalions and a brigadier figures are from Warrior Miniatures





 

Points

Westphalian Cu - 24 x 15mm Figures = 96pts

Westphalian Art - 8 x 15mm figures and two guns = 24pts

Wurttemberg Inf - 48 x 15mm figures = 96pts

Wurttemberg Brigadier - 1 x 15mm figure = 4pts


Total to be claimed - 220pts

Plus Two Squirrel points 1 for Westphalian and the other for the Wurttembergers



So for this post

Ancients  - 192 

Napoleonic - 220

Total - 412pts

Squirrel - 3


A couple of questions curt 

1. For squirrel pts can I get one for 24 Wurttemberg line infantry and another for 24 Wurttemberg light infantry?

2. Do all figures have to be based to collect pts?

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Very fine work Ian and quite the points bomb as well. Well done!

As to your questions: 

Squirrel Points. Stuart is the SquirrelFinder General so I defer to his ruling, BUT as I understand it, you would get one point for your Wurttembergers entire, not for each troop type within the nationality. The Squirrel Points are 'awarded' for each entirely unique theme/period/force. I think that if you did French Napoleonics you could claim a Squirrel for that as they themeatically different from the Wurttembergers. Again, I defer to Stuart to adjudicate.

Unbased Figures. Figures can still be scored if they are unbased, but should have 20% deducted from their total. So a 28mm figure will be scored as 4 points instead of 5.

- Curt