Hello everyone and welcome to the Big Yarkshire Gamer Project for this challenge and after all the white of the Allied Italian Legion I have steered away from that colour and towards a lovely shade of red. I always like to get a post in before Xmas and get some points on the board early doors.
This year I am tackling one of the more obscure European Wars and I am looking at the Italian Wars of Independence (Risorgimento) in the late 19th century but more specifically I am trying to build up both forces for the Battle of Mentana in 1867 with the plan to put it on as a display game around the UK in 2022/3. It goes without saying that the Project is in 28mm (after all I have a reputation to keep 😄)
I will talk more about the Battle itself during the course of my posts this year, but the forces involved were those of General Garabaldi of around 10,000 men against those of a joint Papal / French Army of around half that strength. I'm a bit stuck waiting for the Perrys to release their Franco Prussian French range to do the Galic half of the Papal Army but I have a big chunk of figures prepped and ready to go over the next 3 months.
The first unit completed are the Artillery for the Garabaldi Forces, a three gun battery with 4 figures per gun, which by my calculations should be 30 pts for the guns (10 each) and 60 for the 12 figures (5 each) giving 90 points in total.
The figures themselves come from an Italian company called Shako 64, they do a pretty comprehensive range of figures for the Wars, they are pretty decent quality too and as you can see paint up nicely. My only minor quibble with them is that they are very "flat" when you look at them sideways on.
