Female Gunfighters

These are the Dead Man's Hand figures that I acquired to give some variety to my existing gunfighters

Quite a nice bunch of figures and it tempts me to get some more, maybe Mexicans or Indians

Maybe I should call them the ladies of Hickup County after a comment from friends that I was "Wild Bill Hickup"?

Napoleonic Spanish round hat brigade completed

I completed the basing of the last two units on Monday and here is the whole brigade assembled

The Fijo de Cueta Regiment

and the Cantabria Regiment.

I now need to find or create a suitable commander for the brigade.

Vapnartak 2025

Once again my show circuit kicked off with Vapnartak at York, but this time it became a two day outing as I travelled over with Andy and Si the day before and then spent the afternoon and evening board gaming. The show itself seemed heavily attended, but there were far less games on offer, which might explain why the Lance & Longbow game of Stamford Bridge 1454 was so busy.
The first game gets underway.

Just behind us was the Omaha beach game, whch was equally popular.

As well as the game being busy, the society stand also did well so it was after 2pm before I had chance to look around the rest of the show

Hornblower v's Barbary pirates

Yarkshire Gamers Italian Wars battle of Forli

An Eagle of the Ninth game

So an enjoyable couple of days away, Hammerhead is next at the beginning of March

On the workbench - February 2025

Slower than expected progress in January, but a certain amount out of the way
So I'm working on:-

• Plastic 28mm Female Gunfighters -just needing a final wash and then basing
• Some Lord of the Ring style figures - slowly getting painted
• Robert Marion, The Swamp Fox - just need a bit more attention
• The test Aztecs - base colours applied - no progress
• Lettow Vorbek and askari command stand - almost complete
• Napoleonic Spanish round hat infantry - three units completed and two awaiting basing

New additions

• Three units of Napoleonic Imperial Guard skirmishers to replace some old HaT plastics
• Four units of Italian line infantry and one of skirmishers

I've cleared out an amount of stuff on ebay, but there is still more which can be found here (link). I will also be at Vapnartak on unday on the Lance & Longbow stand if you want to rummage through my box of bits.

Some more Napoleonic cavalry rebased

While working on the Spanish I had also sold my old Prussian Napoleonic cavalry on ebay. I discovered that I had one more old style basing cavalry unit and I also remembered a couple of French units that need rebasing as well.

The Prussian unit had been part of the larger 6th (2nd Silesian) Hussars and one half had already been rebased, but rather than having another indentical unit I decided to change it to the Elbe National Cavalry Regiment by giving them light blue facings. They became the 10th Hussars in 1815.

The French were my two regiments of Eclaireurs for more details see (link)

Napoleonic Spanish round hat infantry

A few days ago, I completed three units of my 3D printed Spanish round hat infantry. Unlike the resin I used before I had zero brakages while painting as the resin is not as brittle. There are two units of brown coated close formation infantry and one of skirmishers in light blue.

I haven't add flags yet to the close order units as I haven't decided who they will be, but the skirmishers are part of the Catalonian Legion

Napoleonic Prussian Kuirassiers 1813-14

For years I have managed with using converted Airfix French Cuirassiers as Prussian Kuirassiers, but I've always hoped that someone would produce them. I suspect the reason why is that they were not involved in the Waterloo campaign. I had thought of converting a combination of HaT Russian Cuirassiers and Dragoons to provide them but it always semed to fiddly. Then at a show I had a look at the Mars Russian Dragoons and decided they were a good enough match.

As it turned out attaching the "swords" was quite tricky as Mars plastic tends to have a lower melting point than that which most other plastic manufacturers use and getting a heated pin to the right temperature was a matter of luck.

The East Prussian Kuirassiers are to the left and the Silesian to the right.