KGL Infantry

There are one or two non-Essex figures in this unit, but the Essex figures are ones that I have had since the 1990s if not earlier.  Finished now and constructed so I can make a variety of Napoleon's Battles brigade units - 2x16, 1x20, 1x24 or 1x28.  Spare figures made it easy to make up casualty bases.

Late War Spanish Napoleonic Infantry

Excessive Essex British infantry figures, a need for some Spanish units and inspiration from Military Dress of the Peninsular War.

I used a new Paynes Grey as the undercoat after a recommendation from James Fisher.

I think it worked extremely well with this uniform.

Note casualty base ready for addition of marker.

The inspiration!

Portuguese Infantry

It's not just all reading, I'm actually actively creating more units for my Peninsula related army.

Old Glory figures of some sort, not meant to be Portuguese I think,

 but in that generic British uniform that was supplied to Portugal.

Flag from the Internet and embellished with some extra paint.

A purpose made casualty stand, sans marker.

These have been painted to represent the Regiment 19 Cascais

as that was a place I stayed in Portugal last year.

Essex this time and again not meant to be Portuguese but that is what I have painted them up as.

Getting ready to invade France.

Essex Byzantine Cataphracts

Picked these up for an amazingly low price of $A0.50 a figure from Tactics.  Better still I was using a voucher my daughter had given me for Xmas.  But best of all I have them assembled, painted and based and heading to the tabletop.

First with flash:

Then without:

The archers I cut in two and repositioned, so they were firing over the heads or between the front rank (rather in the sidewards pose that looks rather daft).  

The Essex codes are BZA 14 and BZA 15 (the latter being the archers).

Yet More Romans

I needed another unit to do justice to the Carrhae scenario I am working on.

When I was painting these I felt as if I was being a bit rough and ready, but seeing them magnified I am presently surprised.

A Base Full of Romans

My Roman expansion continues.  This unit has eight figures preloved to which I have added seven more.

A red wall to be proud of.

I much prefer the tighter grouping.

Second Class Republican Legionnaires from the rear.

The difference in flesh tones, shininess of helmets and tunic trim

are the exDBA figures that have been updated and rebased.

There are still a few more to go.

For a few Romans more

It's not all playing games on this blog, been also doing the hard yards in painting and basing these cute chaps.  Three, maybe more were already painted, but the rest I did.  I originally thought they were transfers on the shields, but now I see they were hand painted.  Amazing work, but I didn't trust myself to try and replicate the work.  These are a second line legion unit after all.

More Romans

Three new units.  One painted from scratch; one consisting of purchased already or mostly painted figures plus some additions newly painted by me; and one just needed basing.

Painted from scratch with new spears.

I'm thinking they might look better if I had based them closer together?

It is only when I see the detail in a nice big photo that I find I've made a few mistakes.

Grrr!

But the biggest embuggerance is the hand holding the spear.

A combination of poor positioning by me,

plus blob of glue.

Doh!

About four of these are newly painted.

Again I think they would look better if based closer.

The ones I painted can be spotted because I didn't finish dry brushing their plumes

and the missed bits on the rear of the helmets are so obvious.

How could I have miss that?

At least these guys don't have deformed hands

All I did was base these 

My new, new Republican Romans so far:

Cavalry, Principes, Triarii and Velites

These were figures I purchased before I made the big purchase.  I am glad I am now making progress on getting them operational.

Slightly Rebased Dacian Cavalry

Having performed so well in their recent battles I decided to apply some minor TLC as well as seeing if I could trim back the bases' depths to my standard size.  The trim worked okay and I also took the opportunity to add more flock.  I originally thought these figures were from Old Glory, but now think they are Essex (DC1 Light Cavalry). 

A bit of loss of focus happening here...

They are a good looking bunch.

The rough edge on the base resulting from my trim,

is mostly hidden.

Some of those spears have so far resisted straightening...

The four bases fit well together and make a fine Impetus base

RO6 Camillan Roman: Heavy cavalry with javelin & shield

These were an 85% complete cavalry unit that came as part of a bigger purchase of unpainted and part painted Romans via a Facebook trading group thingy earlier this year.  Finally some progress.  One figure has been painted from scratch, I changed the position of the spears which required the plumes to be redone, one horse's tail had broken off and has been resecured and there were a few chips to the paint work to repair.

Very happy with the original paint work and pleased I was able to match it.  Good luck picking out which figure is all my own work :-)

The only way I can pick the figure I painted is by looking at the faces.  My technique is different.

EGA2a Early German: Sarmation Extra Heavy Cavalry

These came as part of another purchase and just need some TLC, specifically repairing some spears.  I fixed up a few paint chips and added more flock to the basing, but otherwise they are as is.

Not my best photo, but the repaired spears are on the second figure from the right, front row,

and third, fourth and fifth figures in the rear rank.

I used cut down nails, super glued and reinforced with PVA glue.

A very handy unit to have.

Bow armed as well.

Nice :-)