Another phase in the merging of two armies and rebasing is complete. This time it is the French light cavalry. Consisting of three light lancer regiments, two of chasseurs and two of hussars, they make a splendid sight on the table. Also, another horse artillery battery joins the army.
A closer look at the lancers:
One of the chasseur regiments:
The stunning hussars:
And, finally the horse artillery:
As I mentioned before, I have been going through some old memory sticks and have found a few old pictures from around 2008. This one stood out as i had forgotten about it and recalled the fun I had painting the model and the figures. The aircraft is depicted as having landed at a jungle airstrip to drop off supplies and pick up a wounded soldier.
The aircraft is a Westland Lysander, probably Airfix with Far East markings. I think the kit originally had a spy figure in a trench coat!
The figures are a mix of Airfix, Revell and Matchbox. The observer's head was turned to the right to give the impression that he is watching the loading operation.
The settting is just a textured board with a picture of a jungle scene downloaded from the internet.
Last week I started rebasing the French Army, having more or less completed work on the Austrians. However, in the case of the French, I am adding units from my existing French Army, suitably based to match the Jeffers collection figures.
The first batch consists of the French line heavy cavalry. The combined total is, five regiments of Cuirassiers, one of Carabiniers and four of dragoons. There is also a horse battery.
Currently Marshal Ney is in command. This was a clever conversion carried out by Jeffers, who is also responsible for most of the painting.
Does anybody know what this figure represents? It is almost certainly a Miniature Figurines S Range sculpt and is 25mm. I am thinking Mongol? There is no catalogue number either on top of or underneath the base.
Whilst wading through the sea of white as I rebased the whole of my Warrior Austrians, I painted small groups of plastic 1/72 scale Egyptians. The figures are mostly Atlantic, with a few Zvezda items to make up numbers.
The army consists of 10 chariots, four archer units, six of infantry and a command with escort:
The figures are all quite roughly painted using Speed Paints, but they stand up to the one foot rule. Next, some Hittites.
I was going through an old memory stick when I found some old pictures of Airfix 1/76 figures set in the Western Desert. I must have painted these around 2009 when I was working overseas and had lots of spare evenings. They are a mix of Aifix 8th Army, Afrika Korps and the Bren Gun Carrier with 6pdr:
The weekend saw me finishing off another batch of Warrior Austrians from the Jeffers collection. This time the units were one Jaeger battalion and four battalions of Landwehr. I had to paint a couple of officers to make up the numbers. They make quite a colourful display:
