From MartinC: 3rd Entry - VBCW and more Colonial Brits (155 Points)

Starting to get up to speed now. After many years of experimenting with washes and not really liking the result - generally they look like dried dirty water, I've lucked out and made one that works using brown and sand coloured emulsion paint very thinned down. It gives an even coating over the figure whilst collecting in the folds etc. and not drying like, well water. I've used it on the following figures and I am really pleased with the result.

First up 9 Ironclad female militia for VBCW

These are really nice figures although some of them look a bit like Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry

To go with these some Artisan (I think) Russian Partizans. Most of these will do for VBCW with some a Russian Comrades for the Miners.

I will use some of these for Back of Beyond also

During the Battle of Alston Moor, see Battle Rep here, the leader of the Royalist Hexhamshire faction was killed by a pigeon bomb - a most dastardly weapon. The leaderless Royalists have pressed Brigadier General Talbot McAlpine (Ret.) into service. Here he sits astride his trusty charger Briseis

Northstar Lucky Bag figure

Finally a unit of the Rifle Regiment for my Africa Campaign - these fought in the Zulu War. The figures are Foundry Indian Mutiny and had air pipe helmets. A bit of tweaking and they will do. Nice to have a unit that isn't Red or Khaki.

That's 29 infantry and 1 mounted figure = 155pts.

Happy New Year and if 2016 was anything like mine then then I hope 2017 is much better for one and all, and if not can we all be on the same side in WWII

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I hate to say it but do you mean 'WWIII' (shudder)? Yes, let's hope that 2017 is a better year.

Haha, I like the Grayson Perry comparison. Yes, I've run across a few female figures where I wonder if they should be stand-ins for a British slapstick. Nonetheless, it's good to see that there are some options for female partizans as I had not seen Ironclad's offerings. Good work Martin, your new wash seems to work very well and they will serve very nicely as miners in VBCW. 

McAlpine looks to be a venerable old soldier and hopefully he doesn't meet the same end as his predecessor.  That is a very striking figure - he has a Sir Douglas Haig look about him. Nice job on the horse as well!

Nice to see some Greenjackets someplace other than the Peninsula. A nice skirmishing option for your Colonial games! 

 155 points to add to your steady march in the points roster. Well done!