British Grenadier markers Part 3

Well, after a little break due to illness both for me and the kids I may actually get a game in next Saturday. Here are the rest of the markers I've made up for the game. Think I need to see them in use before I decide what to use for what.

British Grenadier markers Part 2

There was an interesting link on TMP to the Koenig Krieg website where they had what look like pre-molded triangular markers with numbers 1-3 and a molded generic musketeer casualty. At least that's what I take them to be. Can't find a link to buy any yet so thought I'd have a go at making some of my own - well one to start with:


I know Paul Marsh has done similar for his 15mm BG but using stones to mark the numbers. Can't decide whether to go for that, this or this with white text on black? Either way, I have another 18 casualty figures I can use and need to get them done for the first BG game on Saturday!

York

Well, made it to York on Sunday. My first time at Vapnartak since it moved to the racecourse. The old venue was 'characterful' but not ideal in terms of space and lighting. The new is excellent. Not as spacious as say Derby but good none the less. We arrived about 10:30 to be greeted by cars stuck in mud in the parking area but got a spot and headed in. I'd arranged to meet Eccles from the W3D Forums to hand over some Polly Oliver AWI Brits but he texted to say he couldn't make it.

I'd also arranged to meet Mark who I've been negotiating buying some 15mm Polly Oliver AWI from. These were very nice figures: 12 DeLancey's, 24 Grenadiers, 30 Light Infantry and 18 Casualty figs. There's a part pic of Delanceys in the post above and I'll post more when I get them rebased.

Other purchases included:

Pre-cut mdf - both bases and random shapes for woods etc.
Some flock and 'field' material
British Grenadier Scenario Book 1
Armies of the Seven Years War: French and Reichsarmee
GMT Monmouth boardgame for £12 on the B&B for £12
Some more Basetex

And for the first time ever I think, NO unpainted figures!

Saw most of the display games but nothing really grabbed. Not to say it wasn't nice stuff, just not in my interest area - I'm a bit funny like that :)

We ended up leaving about 2pm, partly to avoid the impending snow. Enjoyed it though andwill be going again next year, wife permitting!

I'd bought one pack of pre-cut mdf bases which I really like the idea of but they are twice the thickness of the card I use and for my AWI I think the difference shows in 15mm. May use them for my next project, whatever that may be!

A Seven Years War diversion

I recently acquired a rather large SYW French and Reichsarmee 15mm collection from Richard at the club. He has been working on a set of SYW rules and from the game I played and those I've seen they are rather good. However, I'm a stickler for the cosmetics of the game and as I have plans for Imagi-Nation type stuff in the future I want all my troops in a uniform basing style.

Now there are a lot of figures here (c.60 x 16fig battalions plus cavalry etc.)so rebasing will be a long and slow process. I also want to keep the bulk of the army available for playing the rules at the club so I started with the smaller Reichsarmee contingent figuring some could double for Hessians and some for French in my AWI games! Now I also wanted to 'alter' the painting style to fit more with my own. They are very neatly but basically painted and given the numbers I didn't want to spend too much time on them so I applied a Games Workshop Flesh wash to the skin areas and then used Future/Klear with a little black over the rest of the figure. I think they've come out OK. This is my first attempt with Klear and the mix has been a little inconsistent so some look better than others.

Here are some comparison shots:

Cronegk - before and after
Kur-trier - before and after

Rear view

Warasdiner-Creutzer

The finished brigade

Still a lot to do but I think the approach has promise and when done they overall effect will be worth the effort.

British Grenadier markers

As I slowly limber up for the first game of British Grenadier at my local club I thought it was about time to do some markers. I'd seen various threads on the GdeB Forums about different approaches and also Giles's recent post on his blog. I decided to try a couple of approaches and have markers with either 1, 2 or 3 'items' on them. I'm not sure on using one marker and using whichever side is in contact to determine the value. Too many opportunities for it to get knocked out of alignment. So I tried the cairn and the grass patch approach. Corners of markers clipped to betray my ASL background!


Not sure if they'll be too 'visible' but got to be better than any plastic markers. These are currently for DP markers only. For casualties I can't decide on using a roster or doing casualty markers on triangles as Paul Marsh suggested to me.

Will post some more when done and also when in use.

Preparing for battle

Seeing as I've been trying to reorganise the attic to create some space I thought I'd set up a small table and finally take the shrink off some of the Purbeck blocks I have. It's only 4x4 but there is room when the underlying table is fully out to take it to 6x4 which for 15mm battles will do me. I also wanted to see what the troops I have to date actually look like en masse. Still having problems with the camera so no doubt if you zoom in then they'll be out of focus!

So first an overall view as multiple lines of Rebels prepare to defend the hills:


And then views of the Rebel and British lines:



I want to do some mods to the Purbeck to add some texture and variety and maybe some fields. Or maybe just do them on card at sizes my fences will fit around! And I need roads. And I've got a few buildings to paint up as well.

There is just sooo little time....

British General or 'Beware of the dog!'

And to command His Majesty's troops is this little chap. Receiving a report from his Captain of Grenadiers while his pet dog pauses for lunch!



British figures are Polly Oliver, the dead and the dog are Freikorps. The two grenadiers were done by Billy Bones Workshop as part of a small test batch of figures. He also painted the spares I sent in case of breakages so this is them put to use. Just checked his site again and he has some very interesting looking stuff about paper armies. Worth a look!

Still haven't quite mastered the focus thing but not really made too much effort with it so far. The first set of shots I took were better but when I zoomed in I realised his Lordship was covered in flock!