Siebenjähriger Krieg: Österreich - Freiregiment Loudon

Siebenjähriger Krieg: Österreich - Freiregiment Loudon (Part II)

Figures: FrontRank

Scale: 25mm

Today I managed to finish the Regiment Loudon from Austria serving during the SevenYearsWar.

I posted the first figures of this regiment on 18th January - this was the first part.

The second part is the finished formation, completely based and ready for action.

24 miniatures based for "Die Kriegskunst". I wonder if I will ever be able to play this game.

All of my comrades prefer 15mm. That´s not really my favourite scale. So I would have to build up two complete armies. Because of my speed in painting figures this will be a project for the next 10 years or even longer.

A view from the rear.

One close up.

Another close up.

And finally two photos of the command group flanked by two other stands.

Unfortunately tomorrow will be the last day of my holidays.

So maybe it will take a few weeks for the next post.

Let the dice roll and enjoy gaming.

Cheers

Mike

American War of Independence: British Army - Royal Artillery with 6pdr

American War of Independence:

British Army - Royal Artillery with 6pdr

Figures: Wargames Foundry

Though I wanted to finish other projects first (Freibatallion Loudon for the SYW)

I now ended the work on the following unit.

But I also have to say, that the mentioned Freibatallion is almost done.

I just wanted to see other uniforms.

I hope you´ll enjoy the photographs. Feel free to give me advices. I won´t be able to change the final result but this won´t be the last unit of artillery I will paint. Three other units are just waiting for that.

A first close up.

Another close up.

The 6pdr ready for action !

Fire!!!

(Maybe you can see the little cannonball in the middle)

Cheers

Mike

Rome - Roman triarius during the punic wars

Rome: Roman triarius during the punic wars

Figure: Xyston

Scale: 15mm

So I just did it again.

Other projects are still waiting to be finished and I can´t wait to start a new one. An old matter that surely everybody knows.

Today has been the last day of my holidays. The holiday started with my birthday and I got some very good books from my wife. One of these books is "Hail Caesar". It´s great and looks fantastic.

I also got "some" Xyston-Romans, too. I guess they are about 70 figures.

But I had no time to paint them during the holidays because the day after my birthday we started a trip to Sardinia for one week. Inspired by the history of this island, the figures and the new book I wasn´t able to keen on my other projects. I just had to paint at least one of these superb miniatures.

This panit-job was done today and this is one of my first painted 15mm-figures ever (I´ve only painted two prussians of the SYW and one macedonian Hoplite in this scale before).

The plan is to get an army for Armati so that I can send the Romans against the army of Carthago that has been built up by one of my friends. As you all know - Carthago lost all wars against Rome in the end (I´m sorry for that, ACW-Lover, but this will happen again).

But I´ll try to mix the paint-job with my projects left. Whenever I´m bored by painting the same uniform (maybe after 5-6 figures) I´ll work on the other project for a while.