TYW rebasing - yet more cavalry

Eight new units made up from the remnants of the old regiments plus a dozen new figures

Imperialist to the left Swedes to the right.


A fair bit of time was spent getting the units to have a similar appearance, but I still need to add flags (once I get my printer sorted)

TYW rebasing - wagons and dragoons

No change in bases, but these have been resurfaced from the old grass scatter to my current approach

The coach is a plasticard/miliput conversion of a gun and limber


Dragoons are always difficult as the usual horses are too large for the nags used by them, these used some slightly underscale versions.

While at work on this army I realised that the last time I solely used enamels was sometime in the early 1990s

On the Workbench - June 2017

Quite a simple month for once, the main task is continuing the work on rebasing my Thirty Years War figures. I'm about halfway through the cavalry and artillery so about a third of the way through the project.

There is Phalanx in the middle of the month and I'll be participating in the Lance & Longbow game "The Attack on Venlo, 1372" presented by the Alde Garde from the Netherlands. Then at the very beginning of July there is Gauntlet where I'm participating in the SOTCW game covering the raid on Vaasgo in 1941 (so I might need to work on some extra "winter" terrain).

TYW rebasing - Imperial Harquebusiers

Another batch touched up and rebased, this time some Imperialists.


The figures are all the pistol armed figures from the Revell TYW Swedish Cavalry set


As before these units are 9 out of the original 12 in the units, so I've built up quite a stack of part units to reassemble into "new" units

TYW rebasing - some artillery

Slightly slow progress at the moment, but I managed to rebase some of my guns and re-texture the bases on the limbers.



The guns and gunners are ACTA and the limbers Revell.

Pictures from Partizan

An unexpected bit of luck. On my way back from holiday my wife agreed to a diversion to Newark so I could attend the Partizan show for the morning. Just as well as the L&L stand was short handed. But I still managed to have a good look around in the time available to me.

Picture of things that interested me (in no particular order)

Blitzkrieg Miniatures - Ardennes - maintaing my interest in snowy scenery


Their desert game ( a rather strange mix for the desert, especially the Sexton)


Bunker Hill 1775


Nice to see the Light Infantry "sneaking" along the shore


Charlestown a bit to close to the action


ECW (1)


ECW (2), where I would have liked time to watch how the game progressed


SYW with the lovely Crann Tara Miniature, shame they are 28mm




The Perry's lovely Egypt 1801 game


Inspiring stuff, I must get back to the period again


And build some limber teams, both camel and horse drawn in 20mm






ECW(3) Inverlochy


Poles v's Swedes - lovely figures but the cloth destroys the whole effect (compare this with the Sudan game later)


I have played some of these actions, and I'll be reworking my Poles in due course


Nice German Mercenaries (maybe a use for my leftover TYW figures)


Dresden 1813 - again a game I'd have liked the time to watch how it worked out.


The Grosser Garten is a nice piece of scenery.


League of Augsburg's impressive game.


Lots of ideas for eastern European scenery


Maybe some more animated wagons?


Or maybe an artillery park




Cambrai 1917 - lovely to see the tanks breaking out into the green fields


Lots of eye candy


Sudan 1890 - along with the Perry's the most impressive game at the show.


The printed rippling sand cloth is just right (apparently the 12 x 6 cloth cost £150!!!)


A reminder that I need to make a thorn bush "zariba" (and maybe the ballon


And a track section under construction


Finally the classic wargame of the show - clothes pegs french & Indian war. The great thing was they were showing the kids how to make/paint them.


Overall, it was a great show to visit, and the journey home was not as long as expected, so maybe I'll make the trip again another year

TYW Swedish Allied Cavalry rebased

Back to the Thirty Years War rebasing. Another six units each of 9 figures leaving 18 spare to be organised into new units.

These are a selection of Hessian, Saxon and Danish units

Having completed these I've run out of mounting card for rebasing