Making a start on 28mm French Napoleonic Infantry

 

#wip with my first 28mm #Napoleonic #French Line Infantry in a very long time.

I forgot what a reet royal pain they are 😄 Perry Miniatures plastics, from a planned unit of 36. Vive L'Empereur !

I started my Plancenoit Project with a Brigade of Young Guard and they were like putting some old slippers on as they were Elite Miniatures, now I've started on Lobaus Corp I think I'll put back the game for another 5 years 😆

With the first unit I've gone for a more parade ground look and also for a classic Gillder style 36 figure unit. The base you see is 45 x 60 and will contain another 3 figs in front, those of you unfamiliar with Yarkshire Gamer might notice the extended depth on the bases, this is to protect the muskets on the figures.

I will mix in more campaign style figures in later units and maybe a few greatcoat, I also like my friends Steve Shanns idea doing 32 figure French units (moving away from Gilders company based structure) and I might consider something similar later in the Project.

Anyway 33 more to do and then I'll definitely do some Crusades stuff 😄

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer 

#wargames #hobby #history #tabletopgaming

April can be the hardest month

 

New Unit Day- 28mm Gripping Beast Arab Heavy Cavalry from their plastic box set.

Getting going in April is always a challenge after AHPC & Salute so pleased to squeeze one out 🤣 a new unit that is.

Its always a strange month, the Analogue Hobbies Winter Paint Challenge finishes on the 21st March, so I've just had 3 months of intensive painting which always leads to a slump as the drive to get things done for a target subsides.

Added to that there was quite a big lead in for Salute this year, I had a pile of new figures which needed travelling storage boxes making up for the trip to that there London. I also needed to go through the boxes and make repairs from last time they were out.

The terrain boards also needed a bit of TLC, after a season of shows they needed some touch up work which took an entire week.

After Salute is done there's also a bit of a slump, it's over for another year and I am bloody knackered 😴 It's over a week since I got back and there is still at least half of the game in the living room. We live in a 3 storey house so getting heavy boards and boxes to the top floor is not easy, especially for a retired gentleman 😎

I've spoken to Richard at Partizan now and it looks like there was a cock up on the booking front, it was sent but I didn't receive it, hopefully I will be back in the October show. Its looking like I will be at Claymore, hopefully my own club can fit me in at FIASCO this year, there are also potentially another couple of shows in the pipeline as well.

NOTE - the pendants amongst you will notice that there is a rider missing, I've looked everywhere and can't find the little t'^t - the problem with modern day figures is you can't just buy one, so I'd have to buy another box, which would give me 11 spare figures, so I'd do another unit and the circle begins again. Has anyone got a spare fig they don't want ?

Not sure what I'll be bringing round the shows next year, the Narvik Project is stalled at the terrain stage, Plancenoit is a long way off, not even a third way through the figs yet. Bubbling under I have a Crusades idea and a ECW idea again a lot of work needed doing on both. ECW probably closer as that's mostly a refurb, spruce up job.

I'll come up with something.

Italian Wars at Salute 53

South London Warlords and Salute a great day was had by all.

I wasn't going to mention it personally, but we won another award down in that there London, Best Large Scale Game, hopefully that's clear enough from the banner 😉 

Thanks to Ian Rudd James Cutts , local lads, Abe, Simon, Peter and of course my long suffering gaming side kick Andrew Dickinson for pushing the lead round the table whilst I did front of house.

It was mad busy virtually all day and we had upwards of 30 people around the table at time, I spoke to as many people as I could and had some great chats with people I knew and people I didn't. As a result I saw nothing of the rest of the show, just the table and the gents 😄

Too many to mention all but It was lovely to see Henry Hyde, Creative Writer, Podcaster, Publisher again, looking years younger and whizzing round on his walking sticks with a new lease of life. I met Dave Manley for the first time in person, and he was looking good after a bout of illness. Two of the other three Brews in the Binyard boys where there as well, always good to see Iain Flags of War and the "Face" of Hendos Storm of Steel Wargaming Alex Sotheran himself.

The game itself went well and as usual with Furioso there were some confused faces at the start but after a couple of turns everyone got the hang of it. We had 2,256 28mm figs on the table, which was about 500 more than last time and was a tight squeeze. But this game was about promoting the spectacle of the big game so that's what I wanted anyway. Figs by Perry Miniatures Steel Fist Miniatures Warlord Games Wargames Foundry North Star Military Figures The Assault Group and probably a few more.

The game was a "what if" scenario based on a fictious Relief of the Siege of Forli in 1499, I urge you to look back on previous posts for more detail. The Swiss Pike proved to be the decisive factor as the pushed on in the middle and the Bradford City Pike Block managed to survive.

This is the style of #Wargaming I love and I try, in my own way to push it back into the limelight in the Wargaming world which seems to become more and more focused on skirmish style games. 

Anyway, I won't mention it again, but we won an award 🤣

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer 

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast Episode 84 - Salute Revisited with Martin and Phil

 

Hi all,

I've been allocating most of my hobby time to painting over the last couple of months and its the Podcast which has taken a bit of a back seat, but with the upcoming Salute Wargames Show in that there London (which I have been busy painting figures for) only a couple of weeks away, I thought it would be a good idea to have a quick catch up with Martin and Phil from The South London Warlords to have a chin wag about the show.

The episode is available on all major Podcast hosts and the Utubes, link below to the Podbean audio

https://kenrtai.podbean.com/e/episode-84-salute-revisited-martin-and-phil-from-south-london-warlords/

In the hour of the show we catch up on everything that's new, everything that's the same and all the stuff in between. 

I will be at the show waving my banner for Big Old School Historical Wargaming, as you would expect, there will also be lots of other people waving their banners for their areas of the hobby, which is wonderful to see. I can guarantee that none of those banners will be as big as the ones on the front of a certain wargames magazine !

Now the Analogue Hobbies Winter Paint Challenge is over I hope to have a bit more time to put some more episodes together, so if I don't see you at Salute hopefully you can tune into the next episode of the Podcast.

Until next time, Sithee

Regards Ken

The Yarkshire Gamer

Previous episode on the Utubes