Fusiliers Grenadiers 1809

These have been waiting to be painted for a long while.  Now successfully completed and ready for battle. 

 Fusiliers-Grenadiers 1809

 Always love the variety of poses and headgear with Old Glory.

 Plus the animation.

The 1809 uniform doesn't have the jacket piping or some of the shako trim of the 1806 uniform.

I went for simplicity.

I originally posted about these guys four years ago.  At that time they had been in undercoated for eight years.  Hopefully won't have to wait too long to get them on the table.

Tiger Tiger

Today there has been a visit to the lead mountain, but I'm not sure what the collective noun for the accumulation of plastic kit conversions that now languish in various boxes and containers. 

In going through Military Modelling magazines I came across this article:

Then I thought, I did that conversion.  Do I still have it?  I was expecting to find it my spares box(es), but it was there with my other collection of Tiger Tanks (one Minitank that I'd painted up the same and three of the pre painted models you can get now a days, which includes one which is radio controlled - Dragon Armour I think).

 Hand painted tools as well as transfers.

Sadly barrel is needs a 90 degree twist.

 Some use of plasticard (very rare back then in Adelaide for a 14 year old).

Plenty of use of plasticine as Miliput and equivalents were also hard to get.

Don't know what happened to the Panther road wheels. 

 I don't think I had them and probably used something that I subsequently detested and ripped off.

The paint colour is Humbrol Khaki and probably way too dark for the yellow colour it should be, but I like it.  Some of that weathering is actual real dust and grim.

And as a supplementary, here is the Roco Minitank which I painted up to match.

 Okay, so I got the numbers round the wrong way.

But look, the hatch opens!

Beautiful model, pity it wasn't to scale with Airfix kits.

Waterloo movie from 1970 - Review from Military Modelling magazine Issue No 1

Following on from my previous post, Military Modelling isse No 1 had a review of this seminal movie that so inspired me (and still does).

I can't recall if I saw the movie before or after receiving the magazine.

Military Modelling Magazine Issue No 1

I remember mum and dad bringing this magazine home for me as a present.  Not sure what I'd done to deserve it, but it had a major impact on me, that's for sure.

Sadly I dumped my collection in a teenage funk in 1973, but recovered and collected them for the next ten years.  As previously related I had the good fortune to pick up the issues I was missing and can now travel down a happy memory lane, some of which I will be posting shortly.

Found on Lead Mountain

24 Prussian Musketeers 1806

37 French Light Infantry - side plume

24 French Line Infantry

4 French artillery pieces and 12 crew

Burgundian Ordonnance versus Sassanids

Only a 1,000 years out, but it would be an interesting game as my Burgundians took on Mark B's Sassanids (helped by a recently recruited unit of Persian slingers on loan) using Basic Impetus 2.

 End of Turn One.

Sassanids are the attacker and have taken advantage of deploying after the Burgundians.

 End of Turn Two.

Both sides are trying for a right hook.

 End of Turn Three.

Oh dear, it's going to be one of those nights.

 End of Turn Four.

After an initial set back, my pike have cleaned out the Sassanid archers.

However their elephants took out both units of my longbow.

 End of Turn Five.

Pike clash with Sassanid heavy cavalry - interesting.

Both sides have their right hooks in.

The Sassanid light cavalry are doing what exactly?

 Bombards take aim at the mercenary skirmishers and blast them off the field.

 End of Turn Six.

Bombards about to try out as elephant guns.

Sassanid cavalry commences to make an ill-fated charge.

 Elephants stomp on the bombards.

 End of Turn Seven.

Sassanid cavalry have come off badly and it's about to get worse...

Sassanid cavalry score no hits.

Organ guns score one.

Sassanid cavalry catastrophically fail their Cohesion Test.

Game Over.

My luck changed halfway through, just as the Sassanids ran out of luck.  Made for an exciting game.

Persian Slingers

In under two days some figures off my lead mountain went from this in the morning:

To this in the afternoon:

And then today:

Yes, it's only three, but that is fine for a skirmisher unit for Impetus.  Suffice to say these poor chaps had been lost in the lead mountains for over two decades, possibly three.  How will they go tonight?