More on 1/72 greeks

After my Basic Impetus Macedonian army, I've painted an Hellenistic elephant. This beauty comes from Zvezda and can be used in several Diadochoi armies including the army of Pyrrhos.

I like the idea of successors battles that are like a sumo combat. Boths armies with a huge phalanx and a lot of elephants trying to push to each other.

As I did with the phalangites, I've replaced tthe original plastic pikes with wire ones because almost everytime, the slim plastic pikes get bent.

Alexander's army for Basic Impetus 1/72 (or wargaming on the cheap).

After some time with 28mm miniatures, I think it’s time to post something in 1/72. The great thing about these miniatures is that you can have some “low cost fun” especially if you add a free set of rules. You can have both things with Basic Impetus and soft plastic miniatures.

With less than 15€ is possible to have an army (stay tuned for my future Spartan army) and seriously, with an average price of 8€/box you will have much more miniatures that time to paint them.

I’ve started with a Macedonian army under Philip or Alexander. It has a total of 9 stands with a good variety of troops: One stand of Heavy Cavalry (Alexander and companions), one of medium cavalry (Greek cavalry), one stand of light cavalry (Thracians), one stand of elite light infantry (the hypaspists), two of pikemen (the pezetairoi), one of light infantry (Greek peltast) an two stands of skirmishers (Cretan archers and Agrianian javelinmen). The unit sizes are thosefor 15mm miniatures to save miniatures for future stands.

This army however is really cheap because there are miniatures from 4 different boxes and I’ve purchased shield decals. The overall cost was around 25€ and there are a lot of miniatures unpainted that will be used in the future Basic impetus to Impetus step forward. The miniatures are Zvezda and Hat and the transfers from Little big men studio. The paintjob is done with Vallejo and the army painter products.

Now I’m waiting for the early republican romans of my friend Francesc to start playing with them.

XLIII on foot

One of the best experiences in my life occurred while I was living in Pennsylvania. I met a gentleman who invited me to his reenactent group, The 43rd on foot and I took part in the Battle of Germantown 2010 refight. I'm not new in reenactment. I take the role of a roman soldier every year in Tarragona but being in a line formation with more people firing blackpowder volleys was amazing!. You can feel the adrenaline rush inside your body and start guessing how could be in a real battle. I felt biting the cartridge, reloading and firing at the NCO orders as an automat. Trully it was awesome.

I post some pictures of the event. By the way, the redcoat with Union Jack of 43rd regiment at his back its me.


As a bonus, I post the painted 1/72 regiment prepared to assault Bunker Hill. Miniatures from ACTA (one of the best sets ever), painting with Vallejo and army painter and based to play "British Grenadier". Flags from "Flags for the Lads".

WSS French Dragoons

Following with the Barcelona 1714 project, I've converted some miniatures to create an unit of french dragoons. It seems that there where a Dragoon regiment in the Bourbon Left wing under the command of De Cilly. It comprised 300 troopers and took part in the last assault to the city forming in the third wave.
Little is known about this unit. It was called dragoons de Rochefort but not the uniform nor the flag are known so following the help of my catalan wargame fellows: I painted them red and blue and gave them the flag that can be downloaded from this site.

http://desperta-ferro-ed.blogspot.com/

The conversion is an easy one using green stuff to model the hat. Nevertheless is may firts conversion and I'm quite happy with them. The original miniatures are GNW Russian Dragoons from Zvezda. Being a dragoon unit, it can fight both mounted or dismounted.

Marquis de Cilly

The Marquis de Cilly was the commander of the left wing in front of Barcelona in 1714. It has a powerfull corps with 9 french bons and a regiment of dragoons.
Here is depicted with the colonel of La Marine regiment that formed at full strength with its three bons at Cilly's orders. An ADC dragoon is holding his horse at the rear.

The miniatures are Zvezda from three different sets: Artillery of Peter the Great (Cilly), Swedish infantry (the colonel) and dragoons of Peter the Great (ADC and horses), The dragoon have been converted by removing the tricorne and modelling a dragoon hat with green stuff.

June 2011 painting Inventory

Aquesta vegada no he estat a la altura del mes passat però, això si, he complert amb la proposta del projecte Barcelona 1714-2014. En concret he pintat dos batallons del Regiment de la Marine i una bateria. Tots ells Borbònics però realment russos de Zvezda. També he començat a pintar figures per recrear la batalla de Bunker Hill (1775). De moment un batalló de milícia americana (IMEX/ACTA).Només penjo les fotos dels francesos perquè la milícia està esperant que els sigui entregada una bandera.
Les banderes son dels meus companys wargamers de Vilafranca:

http://desperta-ferro-ed.blogspot.com/2008/08/in-1713-united-kingdom-and-netherlands.html

Ha quedat així:

Juny de 2011
Infanteria 1/72: 2 batallons @ 10 figures per batalló = 20 figures. Russos de la Gran Guerra del Nord de Zvezda. Dues figures de cada batalló estan separades en una peana més petita per representar granaders que es poden destacar per formar regiments ad hoc.
Infanteria 1/72: 1 batalló @ 16 figures = 16 figures. De IMEX
Artilleria 1/72: 1 bateria @ 1 canó = 1 canó i 3 artillers. Artilleria russa de Pere el Gran de Zvezda.
Total: 39 figures a peu i 1 canó.


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This month has not the same level as May because I have painted far less figures. However, I started my Barcelona 1714-2014 project with two Bourbon French bons of La Marine Regiment and one battery. In addition I’ve painted one American Militia unit for a Bunker Hill refight. I only post pictures of the French because the militia is waiting for his flag.
The French flags come from my fellow catalan wargamers:

http://desperta-ferro-ed.blogspot.com/2008/08/in-1713-united-kingdom-and-netherlands.html

Here is the summary:

June 2011
1/72 infantry: 2 bon @ 10 figures per bon = 20 figures. From Zvezda’s Russian infantry of the GNW. Two figures of each bon are based in a smaller base representing grenadiers that can be detached to form ad hoc units.
1/72 infantry: 1 bon @ 16 figures per bon = 16 figures. American militia from IMEX/ACTA
1/72 artillery: 1 battery @ 1 gun = 1 gun and three gunners. Zvezda’s Russian artillery of Peter the Great
Total: 39 foot figures, 1 gun

Armeé Francaise

Tal i com vaig prometre a l'anterior post, aquí penjo les fotos de les miniatures pintades durant el mes de Maig. 3 batallons d'infanteria, dues bateries, els comandaments i els caçadors a cavall. Els dragons ja els tenia pintats. Els poso perquè així es veu la totalitat del meu exèrcit.

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As I promised in my last post, here come my painted miniatures. All the units were painted in May except the dragoons. They form my french army.

Natal Mounted Police

Avui penjo unes fotos de les últimes miniatures HAT que he pintat. Es tracta d'una unitat de "Natal Mounted Police" per a la Guerra Zulu. Les figures són una conversió molt fàcil de realitzar: la base són les "Zulu war Mounted Infantry" amb puntes d'agulla de cosir al casc per fer la punxa característica d'aquesta unitat colonial briànica. Vaig enviar les fotos a "Everything Toy Soldier" de la página web de HAT però encara estic esperant que les pengin. De fet crec que porten des de Febrer sense actualitzar-la. Les miniatures estan pintades amb Vallejo i els productes de The Army Painter.

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Today I put the last HAT miniatures I have paint. Natal Mounted Police for the Zulu wars. They are an easy conversion from the Mounted Infantry box and using needle ends for the helmet points. I sent the pìctures to Everything Toy Soldier but they are not updating it since february (I think). The paintjob is with Vallejo and The Army Painter