WSS Mounted Dragoons - Full Unit

 I finished the remaining 6 Mounted Dragoons so here they are as a full unit.

Meanwhile some camels have appeared in the Sands of Sudan project box.

And some die markers.

Litko round bases, Warbases die holders and mini-dice, railway ballast, paint and static grass.

Pendraken 1882 Egyptian Infantry are soon to be ready.

Meanwhile:

I am waiting for the Covid-19 event to wither away as I'm hoping to attend Carronade in Falkirk in May and also have a family holiday in Spain during July.

Furthermore:

My medical team have reviewed my last CT scan, from January, and have declared that there is no further signs of cancer.

However they detected some narrowing of my left coronary artery which will need some attention.

My response is to keep on painting soldiers.

More when I know it.

WSS Mounted Dragoons

Wargames Factory Mounted Dragoons suitable for the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714.

These are multi-part plastic figures now available from Warlord Games. At £20 for 12 figures what's not to like, a good way to build up forces at lower cost than metals.

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/war-of-spanish-succession-1701-1714/products/marlboroughs-wars-cavalry-of-the-grand-alliance

I've had these for a while but never found the time to paint them. They have come out quite nicely.

I suspect they might be victims of rough handling so I reinforce the bases as shown below.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.com/2016/02/pinning-plastic-cavalry.html

Infantry are available too.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.com/2019/11/wss-british-infantry.html

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/war-of-spanish-succession-1701-1714/products/marlboroughs-wars-infantry-of-the-grand-alliance

Artillery or should I say ordnance are available too.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.com/2016/02/wss-artillery.html

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/war-of-spanish-succession-1701-1714/products/marlboroughs-wars-artillery-battery

No, I am not on commission for this posting but I do like this range of figures although they do take a bit of construction time although not as bad as some multi-part figures.

What do you think guys?

WSS Brandenberg Regiment

My first completed unit of the year.

Brandenberg Regiment from the War of the Spanish Succession. (Some artistic licence enabled)

I acquired the figures almost by accident at a local bring & buy costing me the grand total of £8.

The figures are Front Rank and normally retail at around £1.25 or £1.30 each.

The bag included 4 mounted figures which I will probably expand into a full unit.

They are now destined for a charity sale later this year unless someone contacts me privately.

Bases by Warbases, flags by Warflags, based for BLB.

Little Update

Nothing much to report other than painting, painting, painting.

A recent endeavour is this.

I can see a little adjustment is required to the hat lace and I've not finished the shoe buckles correctly.

Other than that I have nothing worthy of a full blog post but I do have a lot in the pipeline.

Chemical Tank by Warbases

A little diversion from the sand dunes and redcoats.

https://warbases.co.uk/product/sci-favela-chemical-tank/

Take an empty 'coke' can, add a little MDF, paint to taste and voila ...

28mm heroic sized figures from Reaper Bones.

Needs some lettering on the tank indicating how nasty the contents are.

40 shades of orange.

Ideal for Necromunda.

Must get some 'sci-fi' coloured grass tufts.

Sums of the Sudan

I recently acquired a second hand copy of Sands of the Sudan without the card deck. Not a problem as I have a new copy complete with card deck on order.

Browsing through the rules allowed to do some sums to convert distances and base sizes for 10mm figures, the original rules being designed for 28mm.

The suggested table size was 12' x 6' or 144" x 72". Dividing by 2.5 this comes out to be 5' x 2.5', well within my table size. Larger games could be 18' x 6' converting to 7.5' x 2.5' also within my maximum six of 12' x 4'.

Imperial infantry and dismounted troopers have 6 figures on a 45 x 40mm base which converts to 18 x 16mm rounded up to 20 x 20mm. It should be a simple case of checking figures densities with some real castings to make sure they fit.

Largest base I will need is a 30 x 40mm for mounted Mahdist troops.

The project continues.

Goodies at Battleground 2019

Today's winter trip to Middlesbrough produced a few goodies. The weather was bitterly cold but I won't say it was 'Baltic' when it was entirely 'Northumbrian'.

First up is some vending machines from Ainsty.

https://www.ainstycastings.co.uk/?currency=EUR&cPath=68

Followed by some drinks cabinets.

Wonder if Coca-Cola will get upset if I paint them red?

And some arcade games.

Anyone for Pacman?

Some obligatory paint from Colonel Bills.

https://www.colonelbills.com/2.html

Some driveway clutter by Warbases.

https://warbases.co.uk/

Bits and pieces for my space troopers to hide behind.

I've been saving up coke cans.

Difficult if you don't actually drink the stuff.

This one probably contains vimto (anagram of vomit).

My new reading material.

A horde of Mahdists, wonder what I will do with them?

Highlight of the day was bumping into my old friend Mike Headden, looking at least a stone lighter than last time.

I failed to get a copy of Sands of the Sudan so reserved the right to not look too closely at Newline Designs figures. Their turn will come later.