Retreat from Moscow - 25mm More French Wagons!

Here are my next 2 French wagons for my Retreat from Moscow wagon train.

Both carts are from Warbases, the left is their Hay Cart, the right is their Turnip cart, the horses are from Redoubt Enterprises.

The wagons have nowhere for a driver to sit, so I bought some Redoubt Enterprises French wagons leaders. I chose not to winterize these poor freezing chaps. The reason why was quite simple.....I'd ran out of greenstuff!

I've bought more of the green gold so may add a cloak to the figures.....but probably won't!

Retreat from Moscow - French Wagons

Its back to the 25mm Retreat from Moscow project for todays post. I did want to have a few wagons in our first big game at Broadside, but ran out of time.

My plan was or should I say is, to paint up a dozen or so wagons, so we can field a large wagon train running away from Moscow.

So here are the first two. This one is from Iron Gate Scenery with a Redoubt horse.

With a Warbases load.

The next wagon and cart load are both from Depot Battalion, sold by Warbases, The two horses are Iron Gate. 

Now the problem I found is I couldn't find French Napoleonic drivers sold singularly. Most nowadays are sold along with a wagon. Now of course, I'm painting up French figures who should look cold, preferably in a great coat. What to do?

I searched through my massive box of unpainted figures and found these two figures, which are actually, Depot Battalion c17th Century Civilians.

The big cuffed coat worn in that period looks very similar to a Napoleonic French greatcoat. I did need to file the cuffs down a little and replaced the floppy hatted heads with some Warlord plastic heads. I'm very pleased how they came out!

 

25mm Wagons & Loads

Been a very busy boy recently as well as decorating my daughters 2 bedrooms I managed to get a splash of paint on these wagons and loads.

They come from a variety of  companies including 4Ground, Warbases and Col Bill's

The horses are from Essex minis, but I can't remember where the Bulls came from???

The wagons loaded.

And more loads for another day or another wagon!

These will be primarily used for Donnybrook but could of course fit into any 16th to 19th century period, including my Haitian Revolution!

AHPC X - Wagons Ho!

All things Wagon for this post. These were entered into the Challenge back in March, here.

            This I think is a 4Ground model it supposed to be a water wagon, 

but mines a beer wagon instead! I already have one loaded so thought I better get one unloaded.

Its a easy model to put together and no 25mm army should be without one.

 Stick the tap in this end.

The next wagon is from Col Bill's Depot Battalion, you can see them here.

It a heavy ammo wagon so I painted up 4 horses, 2 with riders moulded on.

All can also be found at Col Bills.

Here for the draught horses.

and here for the Riders and horses.

Lastly 3 Wagon drivers, these are Foundry models, purchased gawd knows when!

So onto the points

Although its a 25mm vehicle Its probably a cheek to get 20 pts for the Beer Wagon

so I'll just go with whatever my Minion says, 10 pts perhaps?

For the bigger wagon 20 points

30 points for the horses and riders?

15 points for the drivers?

Making a total of 55 points?

Donnybrook - 25mm Warbases Engineers Cart

Back in April at Salute, I picked up several wagons from Warbases, these were all going to

 be used in the Rejects, Donnybrook, game we were putting on at Broadside in June. 

You can see the report on the Tangiers game here, 

In the scenario I needed lots of wagons, but only had the time to paint up 

five, (with a lot of help from Postie!!)

At just £6 the Warbases Engineers Cart was a must.

Also included in the price was the Engineer's equipment, which just slots into the back

of the wagon.

And here's the wagon without the equipment, there's no reason why you can't use this for

any period from the Renaissance up?

I'll be adding the other wagons to my blog in the coming weeks.