More Plastic Napoleonics

Here is another of the Victrix 28mm plastic French Napoleonic infantry figures. I have done some work on this fellow to make him look suitably ragged so as to depict a soldier of the early Republic. I like the spoon in his bicorn, a nice touch.

Plastic 28mm Napoleonics

Continuing my introduction to 28mm hard plastic figures I have painted two from Victrix's 1804-1807 French infantry set. I painted them as soldiers from the revolutionary war era, although they could be just as easily be early Napoleonic apart maybe from the officers patriotic sash. I am most impressed with these figures, nicely detailed, well proportioned and they went together without a hitch. You get multiple head and arms choices on each sprue and the figures will be so easy to convert and enhance, which is something I will be doing in future.

Plastic Viking

Here is an image of a 28mm Wargames Factory hard plastic Viking Bondi that I purchased at Cancon 2011. I bought several boxes of these and wanted to paint one up to see what they looked like. As you can see the finished result is quite impressive. These fellows come with a great variety of options on each sprue; lots of different heads, arms and weapons. Quality hard plastic 28mm certainly has arrived on the wargames scene.

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Oliver Cromwell and the Saker Gun

Here are some images of my recent ECW efforts.  Below is the magnificently designed Saker cannon from Warlord Games- with an additional Master Gunner - of course! This was a pleasure to paint and I have not seen a gun or crew from this period to rival it.  This is the same as model depicted on the rear cover of the Field of Glory Renaissance rules. 

 Here is Oliver Cromwell in his glory.  Depicted in his earlier days, when he led the fearsome 'Ironsides' before he became "Lord Protector' or just a plain old megalomaniac! Oliver here is showing off his 'secret' or armoured skull cap. Once again, this was made by Warlord Games.  Below he is 'revving' up the troops for the charge- probably quoting revelations or some such! The figures in this lot are a mix of Redoubt and Essex with a couple of conversions and even one chap has a Prince August head!


Let's give those Cavaliers a taste of holy steel!



Chins up lads!

CHAAARGE!

Looking for Bill!

Here is the GW Witch King of Angmar a.k.a the Lord of the Nazgul, not at all a very nice guy. He is no doubt out searching for the freshly painted Bill the Pony as he does not like nice things. I tarted this fellow up by the addition of a base which has two fallen heroes one from Gondor and one from Rohan. The skulls are there to make the big boy feel at home.

Bill and Barney Lead the Baggage Train

Every good army needs a baggage train.  Here is part of a project I have been working on.  The two figures have been in my collection waiting for a paint for almost two decades!

Bill The Pony

Bill the pony is the same one that followed the fellowship of the Lord of the Rings.  He is good friends with Sam and Tom Bombadil  and on occasion will carry baggage for the odd Pike and Shotte army!  He is a two piece casting and comes from the original Citadel miniatures range for the Lord of the Rings way back in 1885/6 when Citadel held the licence.  I'm surprised that I have kept him unpainted for so long!  Upon investigation on the Stuff of Legends site, I found that I have collected most of the figures in the seres and still have them! Here is a link to the  fellowship of the ring boxed set from which Bill came from.

'Barney' the Donkey and cart do not keep the same illustrious company as Bill.  They are about 21 years old. Originally, the cart came with a coachman with some outlandish blunderbuss, whom I still have tucked away in a box somewhere.  It is a great looking cart that can fit many periods.  Barney and the coachman (picture at the bottom of page)

Barney and Cart

As an aside, here is a stand from immortal's plastic Greeks set.  They are a lovely kit and a challenge to paint.  The waterslide transfers are very good.

Immortal Greeks