Paint Table Oddments

Maybe I have a strange way of painting - but it works for me.  I usually have one main project on the go plus a number of 'strays' at the tray edges.  When I have a little paint left on the brush (especially browns) a 'stray' or two get leather work done.

 Over time a group of figures gets near to completion - so I finish them off - and here are the latest oddments:

Greek hoplites (Old Minifigs) fronted by Regular peltasts (Tin Soldier).

A real mixture of 'Arabs' - on the left 4 bases of Almughavars (Minifigs)

         - on the right 4 bases of cavalry (unknown)

Current main project is 20mm 30 Years' War Germans.  

The latest version of the DBA-RRR army lists meant that I had to remove 1 x Pk and replace it with 1 x Sh (for the Imperial Catholic army).  The unwanted Pk can go towards building a German Protestant army.

At the edge of the board are 10 x Carthaginian 4h chariots (STILL) plus sundry others.                 

Parcels - part 2

You wouldn't believe how many attempts I made to take these pictures!  The riders fit badly on their mounts and the bases are not wide enough to be stable (sigh!).

 Lithuanian Tartars

Polish Lisovchiki

Yesterday's DBM scrap was between Later Muslim Indian and Anglo-Danish.  The game started late and, in spite of a Welsh flank march arriving, resulted in a draw.  

Still it was better than last week's debacle where I did everything wrong - positioning, army composition and dice-throwing.  My Medieval Portuguese went down 0-10.  Such is life! 

Parcels Galore!

Saturday 7th June - two parcels arrived.

The heavier one was from www.wargamestournaments.com with my custom MDF bases (60mm frontage).  These are destined to smarten up my Renaissance DBA-RRR figures making them easier to handle and less liable to breakages (I hope).

The lighter parcel was from Emodels:

and.....

I found an interesting article on the Lisovchiki:

http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/lisovchiki-v-moskovii-1607-1616

Scroll down for the English translation.

As soon as the figures have completed their 'chemical treatment' and I have trimmed them up I will post pictures.

More Painting

Here are the 15mm figures:

Essex Chinese - painted here as Southern Dynasties Reg Bd(F).  

I first blogged about these in December last year.

On the left - hoplites (Asgard in front, unknown behind).

On the right - regular peltasts (Tin Soldier).

Still have many oddments on the painting board - including Carthaginian chariots.  Still progress is progress.

I Have Been Painting Again!

Hot off my painting board are some of these:

Cavalry / Command and Artillery for my Colonial Portuguese. 

The padded armour of the cavalry mark them out as New World troops but they would do for Spanish, French, British or Dutch.  As an aside - once I stuck them to the base they listed very badly to the left so I had to put a weight on each horse in turn.  They have straightened up ok but I have this niggling feeling that their socialist leanings will re-assert themselves.

The artillery are pretty generic so could be used in a wide range of Renaissance armies e.g.30YW.

Between photographing these bods and the 15mm figures something happened to the camera's focus.  Hopefully I can sort that out and post the rest tomorrow!

FoG in the New World

Well I finally got around to comparing the two 'New World' Field of Glory supplements.  Initial thoughts are that dates were often hard to find (especially in 'Cities of Gold'). In spite of this I have done my best to make a comparison chart:

 

FoG Americas (& Africa) comparison chart (10.4.14)
	Blood & Gold	Cities of Gold
Olmec	1150 to 400 bc
African, central		1640 to 1699
African Forest, west		1655 to 1699
Amazonian Forest Tribes	1350 to 1500	1494 to 1662
Araucanian, Mapuche or	1461 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Arawak		1494 to 1555
Aztec	1375 to 1500	1494 to 1521
Buccaneer		17thC
Canari	1400 to 1460
Carib		1494 to 1698
Chanca	1000 to 1450
Chichimec	700 to 1500	1494 to 1600
Chimu	850 to 1470
Chinantec	1300 to 1500	1494 to 1530
Dutch or English colonial (American)		1622 – 1698
Eastern Woodland Culture	900 to 1500	1494 to 1698
English or Dutch colonial (American)		1622 – 1698
English West Indies expedition		1654 to 1655
French, colonial		1564 to 1698
Funj or Fur		1504 to 1699
Hatun-Colla	1400 to 1460
Huaxtec		1494 to 1526
Imbangala or Zimba allies		1589 only
Inca	1438 to 1500	1494 to 1572
Mapuche or Araucanian	1461 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Mayan	600 to 1450	1494 to 1697
Mexican, west	100 to 900
Mixtec, Zapotec or	400 to 1500	1494 to 1522
Moche, Mochica or	100 to 700
Mochica or Moche	100 to 700
Mossi		Late 15thC to 1575
Mound-Builder Culture	900 to 1500
Natchez		1494 to 1698
Oromo		1560 to 1699
Otomi		1494 to 1526
Pacific North-West Culture	1100 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Plains Culture	900 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Portuguese, Aviz		1494 to 1580
Pueblo Culture	900 to 1500	1494 to 1692
South-Eastern Woodland Culture	1300 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Spanish, colonial		1526 to 1698
Sudanese, central		1564 to 1596
Sudanese, west		16thC to 17thC
Tarascans	1300 to 1500	1494 to 1533
Teotihuacan	100 to 750
Timucuan	1200 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Tlaxcalan Confederacy	no dates
Tlaxcaltecs		1494 to 1521
Toltec	900 to 1179
Tuareg		1494 to 1698
Tupi	1400 to 1500	1494 to 1698
Zapotec or Mixtec	400 to 1500	1494 to 1522
Zimba allies, Imbangala or		1589 only

I separated Olmec out as it is the only bc army for which there is a list.
18 lists span the 'Ancients' divide - I will look at the differences later.

More Purchases

Been away this weekend at "The Grand Departs", Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire.

True to form my FoG(R) books turned up on Friday  - "Cities of Gold" & "Colonies & Conquests" - so no chance to look at them.  Busy until Wednesday when I hope to give them my attention.

On the way home I called in at the Halifax shop and picked up:

Red Box RB72050 Highland Infantry - Jacobite Rebellion 1745.

Strangely Red Box uses exactly the same image - "The Battle of Culloden (1746) by David Morier" on all three sets - 72049, 72050 & 72051. 

As this makes three boxes in stock it might be  worth my while looking at army lists to see if I can put together a skirmishing force for both sides.  Don't hold your breath though!!!