SYW British Line Infantry - part 1

This is only part 1 as I only produced two out of the four planned British Line Infantry Regiments so far, there are the 20th and 25th regiments, who both have yellow facings, the 20th being paler.

The figures are Redbox Jacobite Rebellion British, which are well suited to the Seven Years War. The 20th are at the front in the bright morning sunshine.

Almoravid Heavy Cavalry

A slow burner as I always have difficulty selecting the right colour palette for irregular troops

The base figures are Almoravid heavy cavalry from HaT and will be used with the rest of my Islamic forces either for El Cid and Crusader era skirmish and big battle games

Sunday in the Sudan

As is traditional after Phalanx we all particaoted in a big game over at Steve's in Salford. This year it was the Sudan. The Egyptians were defending the Riverside town and neighbouring village against a horde of Mahdists. The British plodded across the sand in the baking sun to their rescue.

My command, the cavalry and camelry

The Egyptians repel three assaults

Still holding on except the Mahdists have taken a building in the town.

By the end of play thanks to the staunch Egyptian defense there was no hope of success for the Mahdists.

Phalanx 2025

Myself and a contingent from the Beacon club put on Nantwich 1644 at Phalanx, as other members who had planned to produce a game were running behind schedule. Still is was a great game using a modified big battle version of Pikeman's Lament. These are pictures of the pre-battle setup as once action was started I spent most of my time organising the action rather than taking pictures. Nevertheless the battle turned out a narrow Parliment victory.

Other games

Seelowe 1940 Germans v's Home Guard

Culloden in 54mm, lots of entertaining conversions

Zorndorf - SYW Prussian Russian bash

Ramillies

An age of sail ship v's shore engagement, I would have liked to have time to find out more about the ships and the rules

And no picture of the Lance & Longbow stand where I would have usually been participating as it was too busy - well done guys

On the workbench - June 2026

So May turned out to be a complete distraction from painting. First my insurer decided to write off my car so I had to hunt for a new one, and then I realised with the sudden onset of hot weather I could get the 3D printer started again. The month ended with an outing to UK Games Expo, quite an experience. Also I managed to sell off all my Winter terrain and armies. But overall not much progress on the painting so I am working on:

• Almoravid heavy cavalry (almost there, needs a final push on all the detailing)
• Four units of SYW British infantry (All primed, half with their facings blocked in - no progress in May))
• Complete the Vietnamese buildings (Primed and first coat now painted (base colours are now on I just need to finish off the final washes, etc. They were already good enough to use in a game last month))
• 3 units of WSS French cavalry (Assembled and washed ready for priming - Still)
• Paint the wild west buildings acquired at Games Expo
• Complete the latest 3D printing campaign, mainly Napoleonic Russian Infantry, plus various ypgrades/replacements for existing vehicles

Finally Phalanx is on this month and the club is putting on the battle of Nantwich 1644

French Vichy Dewotine D520

Phew, last of May and I have finished my Dewotine D520 in Vichy colours. It started out as a wish to have something Vichy to support those French in Lebanon/Syria and North Africa. Once painted the decals disintegrated as soon as placed, despite being dosed with varnish first. So much for a £2 quick fix kit!. Step in Charles, while I had other problems to supply a set of French roundels. So a slight change to the paints scheme and I have

Looks the part

WAS Bavarian Freikompanie Prielmayer

I needed some light troops for my Seven Years War Bavarians, so they could act as a stand alone force, but they didn't use them as part of the auxilary force provided to Austria. So I cast the net wider to the War of Austrian Succession, there were three at that time and I selected the Prielmayer Freikompanie. The uniform came up on a forum so I used it.

The source I used

Also I created a command stand for my Prussin artillery

All the figures are from the Revell SYW sets.