Royal Welch Fusiliers

A bit of a farewell post, not to the blog but to my AWI army. Decisions were made and they have marched off to pastures new, I will in fact be seeing them again hopefully as they have taken up new billets in a wargaming friends collection. It was when packing them up that I realised I hadn't posted pictures of my favourite regiment the Royal Welch Fusiliers, so this post is to correct that particular oversight. 

Figures are 28mm Front Rank Figurines and the flag was hand painted and the first I did for the AWI.

I will be returning to the AWI at some point in the not too distant future....

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Giant

A little, or not so little addition to my fantasy collection for Dragon Rampant. This is a Mountain Troll from the Harry Potter range that I picked up cheap on eBay as it's club was missing. I've added some detail with green stuff and Milliput, barrels are from Renedra, the club is part of a plastic tree with Milliput and cocktail sticks added, the millstone was scratch built and the chain was picked up off eBay. Shields, skeleton bits and banner were scavenged from my bits box. Finally my new Giant was based on a cd disc.

All in all I'm pleased with the end result, a proper Giant!

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Parthian Light Horse

While digging through my pile of unpainted and painted lead I cam across some old 15mm Essex Miniatures Parthians. I'd completely forgotten I still had them, as I thought they'd been lost in one of my numerous moves over the years. As it stands I have enough unpainted figures left to form the core of another army for To The Strongest.

Two units can be combined to form a Cantabrian circle, after basing these I was pleased to see that rules for a combined light unit for To The Strongest were reported on The Big Red Bat blog. 

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Successor Agema Cavalry

15mm Successor Agema armoured cavalry (code WE-MH02) from the War and Empire range by Forged in Battle. I've also included below a group shot of the Successors project to date.

On the general hobby/painting front there has been a slight post Christmas lull as real life takes priority, however I've managed to paint two units for my WSS British with a third nearing completion. There's also been some fantasy additions for Dragon Rampant, one of which is a conversion to create a Giant! 

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British Napoleonic 38th Foot and 60th Rifles

Infantryman 38th Foot and an Officer 60th Rifles

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Spanish Militia Part 2

As the UK is experiencing an arctic blast this weekend I thought I'd offer up a little something from warmer climes. Spanish Napoleonic Militia have been recruiting with another 12 figures completed and added. These are 28mm Eagle Figures, still lacking flags (apologies), but starting to grow into a meaningful force. I chose to give these 12 recruits a slightly more uniform appearance with a blue jacket to represent a degree of military training and reflect their militia status, I think they should mix in nicely with the previous figures painted in civilian colours.

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Spain 1809 French Allies

Fusilier Reuss 1809 

6th Rheinbund Regiment Spain, 1809

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