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Tuesday, 28 December 2021

KenR : 28mm Garabaldi Infantry Part 1 (90 pts)

I'm making the most of a few days off work to get going on this Project, the Artillery was a nice aperitif but its time to start doing the hard yards and get cracking through the Infantry for the Garabaldi Forces.

This is the first unit of 20 for the Army and represents one of the famous red shirted units that are associated with Garabaldis troops. I plan to do about 10 units in this manner before finishing the project off with some of the more exotic units from the Army.

The unit is made up of 24 28mm figures from Gringo 40 and they have been based 6 to a base with each base being 60mm x 60mm. The additional depth is to help protect the bayonets on the front rank of figures (something that I remembered on the first base and then forgot on the others 🤦)

Points wise I am only claiming 18 of the figures as one of the bases was done pre Challenge as a tester for colour and base layout etc so that will be 18 x 5 for 90 points.

I've tried to give the unit a ragged Campaign look with different hat types and colours as well as different colours of trousers. This is also my first full unit of Gringo 40 figures, larger than most other 28s they do paint up really well with some great faces. I think this will get more and more impressive as the Army grows.

I'll finish off with a picture of the Project to date. Next up will be another unit of red shirts, this time in a firing pose. I am going to try and plough through as many of this type of unit as I can before I switch to anything fancy. I've already got 12 of the next lot done so hopefully there will be another unit before the new year.

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Beautiful work Ken. Like you, I really like these hefty castings that you're using for this project. It's always satisfying what a simple colour shift in headgear, trousers or coat can do to troops that are similarly posed. Lovely stuff.

- Curt