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Monday, 9 January 2017

MartinC - More Colonial types (515pts)

For my next trick I've been painting up some more colonial figures. By normal standards this would have been a paint bomb but this year, well there have been some outstanding submissions that have been a joy to behold already. Glad I'm not in charge of the counting. I'll leave that to today's minion.
First up is my prize for coming 2nd in the total points tally for last last year. I was delighted to recieve a £75 gift token from Westfalia, see opposite, which I spent on a lot of Persian and Afghan Napoleon cavalry. The figures are great and a joy to paint. They will find a place in my generic North African and NW Frontier forces.

8 Persian Lancers

10 Afghan Cavalry

and another 10

Next up some Natal Carabiniers. 3 of these figures started life in a Northstar lucky bag as British troops in home service uniforms. Head swaps and an arm changes gave 3 suitable figures, 2 in rain capes. To complete the unit I bought 2 more mounted figures and 5 dismounted figs from Rapier Miniatures. This was my first time buying from Rapier and the figures are very nice, although the horses heads look a bit like rabbits

5 Mounted Carabiniers

5 dismounted

Next some colonial artillery. The figures are random suppliers with a mountain gun from Col Bill.

Mountain gun and Crew

I bought this Zulu war heliograph from Black Tree Design. The crew are the C section of the Royal Engineers and were the first section of the unit that went on to form the Royal Corps of Signals

The final Colonial unit for the moment is this rocket section, again from Black Tree. I've always been a fan of their figures but until recently their service has been shocking. That seems to have improved greatly.

Finally something random. These 2 German Robot machine gunners have been in my bits box for ages, again a Northstar lucky bag. With the rise of Konflict 47 it seemed a good time to paint them up

Really finally, a quick splash and dash. I'm playing my first game of Impetus in a couple of weeks. My Republican Romans from last year's challenge are finally getting a run out. However I need a couple of units of Gauls to complete the army list so I painted them on Saturday. These are truly rubbish Wargames Factory Gauls in plastic. They are rubbish poses, fit together badly and were right at the bottom of the lead pile.

16 Gauls based, temporarily for Impetus. I think I've overdone the PVA sticking them to the bases.

So that is 33 cavalry = 330 pts, 31 infantry/ gunners / robots = 155 pts, 2 artillery pieces = 20 points and a heliograph (10pts?). Giving about 515pts

MilesR: BOOM - now that's a points bomb - very well done. More impressively you've made the Wargame Factory plastic look good - something I've never been able to do myself. For me the best of the lot are the Persian Lancers but its all very, very good.