Posting problems

All

Just to make you aware I have not forgotten this blog. I am however having problems uploading pictures and I have been unable to do so for some time.

Once the problem has been solved I will begin posting again.

Thanks

J

Items for Sale on Ebay

Just a quick post to let you know I am selling some figures on eBay, which are surplus to requirements

Please feel free to have a look here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/napoleonicwars1815

The Black Legion

Well. I realised that I haven't blogged on here for a long time

Me and my crazy wargame buddies are planning to re-fight Quatre Bras in 2017 in 1/20 scale

As part of this project, I have agreed to paint a significant amount of Brunswick figures.

I have previously purchased and painted some Eagle Figures Dutch Jagers for the project and I was pleased with the results. Eagle Figures have just released a new range of Brunswick figures and I was keen to encorporate them into this project

When I attended Salute last week, they had a very generous buy 4 packs, get one free offer, so naturally I had to.

I also promised this blog because Kevin, our wargaming and painting leviathan is a die hard Perry figure painter, and I wanted to try promote Eagle Figures to him as an alternative.

I figure if I can persuade Kevin, I can persuade anyone.

So onto the figures.

I purchased some Perry and Eagle Figures Brunswick line infantry and also some Brunswick Artillery.

Brunswick Horse Artillery Figures from Eagle Figures

I have painted the gunners as I wanted to try out my painting black uniforms.

However photographing black was harder than I imagined.

I hope you like the figures

Then I thought I would do a direct comparison between the Eagle Figures line infantry and the Perry Line Infantry

Perry Miniature on the left, Eagle Figures Miniature on the Right

As you can see, both figures are a similar height and build and wouldn't look out of place side by side.

I would argue here that the sculpting is slightly clearer on the Eagle Figures miniature. What do you think?

Now on to the command stands - here are the command figures from Eagle Figures. There are two standard bearers, a drummer and an officer in each pack

Here the figures are photographed with the Perry Command Figures. In the Perry pack you get two officers, two standard bearers and two drummers.

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I think they would combine well in a unit and would be interested to hear your opinions.

Perry as we all know are available here  - usually in packs of six

Eagle Figures are available here- the packs I purchased were their battalion packs of 24 figures, priced at £25 each

The Artillery pack had 8 figures and 2 guns and was priced at £16.50

As always all comments and feedback welcome.

Dutch Jägers

I've just finished painting some skirmishing Dutch Jagers for the Quatre Bras project we are doing

The figures are from Eagle Figures - the first time that I've painted any figures from that company

They are good figures to paint. Obviously smaller in stature than Front Rank. Similar to Perry Miniatures

I'll probably use get some more figures from Eagle Figures for my Brunswick infantry I have to paint.

Eagle figures website is here http://www.eaglefigures.co.uk/wordpresstrial/

Quatre Bras project - 2nd Nassau Battalion

For those of you who are fans of our crazy and large scale projects - the next one in the pipeline is Quatre Bras - using a lot of the troops featured in our Waterloo game.

We are doing a much more civilised 1:20 scale for this battle - mainly because we wouldn't have enough room for the battlefield otherwise!!

My first contribution is these guys - 2nd Battalion of the Nassau Regiment

La Haye Saint - Part 3

More photos of the La Haye Saint game

La Haye Saint - Part 2

Some more photos from the La Haye Saint game