I may paint the odd new unit for the period but the heavy lifting is finally done. Here you see my latest units for Beneath the Lily Banners. Above and below Hasting's Regiment. Figures from Dixon, Essex and, mostly, Irregular.
Heeding Mr Hilton in his "Every Bullet Has A Billet" I drilled out the bases of the pike men and colour bearers to accomodate pike butts and standard poles. The result is splendid, solid. There for good. Would that I had done it for the rest of my units. Too late.
Here we have the second battalion of the Garde Francaise. Once again, there are pike men with drilled bases. About 5 minutes work drilling. The green stuff ribbon bunches took longer. Crack troops. Note the Lily Banners from David at Not By Appointment.
A very light gun with civilian crew. Useful pretty much anywhere. It will appear shortly in the March on Alnwick. The gun is from QRF.
A squadron of Sarsfield's Irish Horse. Veteran Blade Horse in Beneath the Lily Banners speak.
Here we have the Edinburgh Militia in their blue bonnets and coats. An All Musket formation.
Amazingly that is job done for my League of Augsbourg Armies. At least for the moment.
I shall showcase the completed armies over the coming months.
Really lovely units, and I will definitely borrow the idea of "burying" the pike buts for the rest of my ECW Scots at least!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gonsalvo.
ReplyDeleteIt is well worth doing, no more pinged off pikes.
Splendid stuff! Interested in seeing how the Alnwick campaign progresses, being originally from that part of the world - actually born in Alnwick and went to Grammar school there, but lived about 20 miles away until mid twenties.
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Thanks Neil.
DeleteI've just set up the table for it. Too dark for photos just yet.
Alnwick is a great little town. I have very fond memories of it. For the campaign we should imagine the Dutch marching towards it from Alnmouth.
You have really whizzed through these and as always, they look great. Any figures which require wire pikes, I would always drill the bases out for that extra point of very strong attachment.
ReplyDeleteI have painted so many of these Irregular figures it is almost automatic Steve.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wish I had started doing it earlier.
And very nice they all look too!
ReplyDeleteA long Journey Ray that started with looking at your blog!
ReplyDeleteFantastic figures and excellent paintwork! Great work. A fascinating period to game.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much John. It is a great period to game.
DeleteLovely looking units. Well done on a job done well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard, it feels good to have got there.
DeleteNice looking units to finish off with OB - I will be most interested to see your upcoming parade - and then some games, of course!
ReplyDeleteCheers Keith, games should follow shortly and parades too.
DeleteCongratulations on completion! Really nice work.Good to see the Gardes Francaises flags in action too. (Many French flags cover a huge time span; great value for effort!) :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks David. I have some cannon for you. I'll drop you a line later.
ReplyDeleteGreat; thanks. :-)
DeleteLovely figures.....can't wait to see some games with them
ReplyDeleteThanks Stuart.
ReplyDeleteThe table is set up for The March on Alnwick.