Tableshots

Two posts on the blog in one day.

Just some tableshots to show of the figs and table.

Here the two brigades meet on a field.

And here the fight is over a stream and some woods.

33rd Regiment of foot and Websters Brigade

Ok, my first British 40mm Brigade is finished, I finished painting the 33rd yesterday, and finished the baseing today.

the 33rd is a 24 figs unit, and is Sash & Saber.

Again the big diffrence from front rank is in the details, like the lace, which is just a blob on S&S but is acualy a lace on FR.

And here's Websters Brigade, loosely based on the one under Cornwallis at Guilford Courthouse, only with stronger regiments, both these units are 360ish storng ,while at that battle they were both under 250.

2nd Maryland and maryland brigade

This one will be picture heavy.
First up is the 2nd maryland in the historic correct brown coats faced red(I think)
This was my first unit of sash and saber and after doing 3 units of front rank they were quite diffrent, while front rank is the Perry or AB of 40mm AWI, while S&S is Old Glory, they actualy look alot like S&S 28mm figs, same herroic anatomy and possison, but I shouldn't be to hard on them as I think is was one of the very very first figs in 40mm by S&S, but even other figs like British or militia are far far from Front Rank, just to use one exampel, on FR british you can actualy paint the lace, by that I mean you can paint just the lace and leave a little of the faceing color in the middel, while on S&S the lace is just a bump to paint. Thats said, they do paint up nicely and look good on mass.

Here they are, most of them in brown regimental coats, and a few in hunsting shirts, there do have some weried anatomical odities, and very very animated faces.
As you can see, on mass the look good, but as you get closer and closer the diffrence in quality is quite evident.
And I realy have to think hard if I want to buy more, 40mm is expencive, and I just don't want a big 28mm, I want something that justifies the expence, FR does that, so far S&S dos not.
I have orderd some hessains from trident and will teste them out when they get here,
Then I have to wait for highlanders in kilt from either trident or FR.
But that still leaves 2 units of militia, that I either have to get from trident or S&S,

Next up is the maryland brigade, 1st and 2nd maryland, blue and brown coats both faced red.

They are command by Mordecai Gist and will be the elite backbone of the american army, after the british has tired them self out with the milita, they'll have to fight these guys, or they might be sent to a flank that needs some muscles.

In total 43 figs with command, only 5 more brigades to go.

Thats it, next unit and brigade up is the British brigade under Webster, with the 33rd and 23rd regiments of foot

1st Virginia Militia

Well this was kinda a fauilure, this was supose a full 30 fig unit,
But they were just so damn damn damn boring to paint.
After two and a half weeks, I had only done 2 bases worth of figs, and the 3rd was half done, I then orderd a fireing squad, and had guns pointed at me, to force my self to finish the 3rd.
After that I gave up, and based and finished the unit, I'm still planing on doing the last two bases, but I just couldn't do it now.

This will be the first of two virginia milita units, as I paint OOB for the american side becomes clearer,
I'll have one Maryland brigade, with 1st and 2nd maryland contiental, this will be the elite brigade of the american side.
Then I'll have a virgina milita brigade with 1st and 3rd virginia milita.
And then a New York/pensylvania brgade with more milita.

I did this unit in all hunting shirts, it will be the only one to be dressed like it.
I did 3 diffrent colors, white, grayish white and browngray.
Colors that might be close to natural linen

Again I did the whites with a base of bone unther it, the gray had a medium gray under it and light gray under it, the brown is actualy horse tone dun, with some gray to shade.

Anyway I finaly got my order from Sash and Saber, after 1 month 22 days, thats a long long time, they realy need to find a better way to package their stuff, so far I havn't found any broken guns, but there has been a few close ones, and it's pure luck that 10 or 20 of them havnæt been broken.

Anyway stay tuned to see a British mounted officer that I might put up on the blog today

Say hallo to the 1st Maryland

Here they are walking down the road

Here they are poseing for a instant painting, they ran away when the flash came.

I kinda like these pictures

When I had done the first base I didn't think they looked as good as the fusiliers, but with all 3 bases I think they infact looks just as good. Deffenetly figs I won't be afraid of showing off on the table.

WIP Maryland

This will be the 1st Maryland, and therefor the one elite unit of the american side. this one should be able to stand up to most of the british unit if not all of them, it will only have 270 men, so it has to be used lighly, and not in the first line, lets the milita tire the brits then send in these guys, they will be brigaded with 2nd maryland, and while the 2nd is not as elite it will have more men, and it will be alot better then milita, togeather this brigadce should give the brits some trouble if used right. Anyway over to the pics

This is the 1st base out of 3. one guy got a long rifle just to not make the unit totaly uniform.

Out for a walk with the dog with out the dog.

They look ok, but I feel they are not up to the fusiliers standard, but they are easier to paint, the blue is easy to cover unlike red. And they are not uniform like the fusiliers that had 21 figs that were totaly the same, just in these 6 you had 4 diffrent figs, togeather with the separte heads it looks good, this is still one of my best jobs, but not quite as good as the fusiliers, they might have been a one time super thing.

23rd Regiment of Foot finished

Minus the flags.

I'm very happy with these guys, the only the 3rd units that I'm realy happy with, the others beeing my latest AB 15mm Napoleoincs.

They look quite impressive with all 24 figs, they take up 20cm frontage, so I can't have that many units on the table, I'm thinking 4 British units, and 6 american, with some light infantry units, one american unit will be a full 30 figs or 450 milita, the rest will be 18 or 24 figs.

Or bewteen 270 and 360 soldiers and milita men.

I'm also thinking of 4 cannon, 2 each, with 1 6pder and 1 3pdr on each side.

The OOB will be a mix, the british will have the commanders from Guildford courthouse, with 3 regimetns from the same battle, the 23rd, 33rd and von bose, but with stats closer to Nothern theater, and not the southern, For the american side i'm not sure, I was thinking 1st maryland contenetntals as the one elite unit of the americans, then another continental unit, mabye a New York or Delaware regiments, the rest will be milita.

Anyway to the pics.