From PeteF: New Bases for Old Soldiers, the Flocking Continues

British Flags courtesy of Napflag

The nice thing about the Quarantine Challenge is that I can show off my dad's old Minifigs and Hinchcliffe as I get them table ready for Quatres Bras in 2021, 2022? sometime in the future. A substantial part of the army has made it to the states on various trips over the last few years. All I have to do is put the little fellas on bases and make them look nice and they'll be ready for my wargaming friends to enjoy as soon as we can get together over a cold beer.

This has been another few days of intense flocking - so much so that supplies are running low and I may need to take advantage of my FLGS's new curbside pickup service. Here are the Kings Dragoon Guards, Dutch Light Dragoons, a KGL battalion and two British Line battalions along with some command and some Frenchies.

I went all in with this lot giving them a coating of crushed cat litter which largely hides the integral bases and provides some rocks (with no need for painting/highlighting) before 2 colours of fine brown grit to simulate mud, a blend of turf flock and then tufts and static grass. I did debate whether I wanted to do new school bases with old school figures - would it clash and take away from the 1980s vibe? but I'm happy with the results.

Dutch cavalry standard fabricated from a picture found on the internet

This has been a good week for my Minifigs addiction collection as I was able to pick up a bunch of Old Guard and some great coated infantry for a very reasonable price on EBay. I was hoping to get even more from the same seller as he's breaking up a substantial collection - unfortunately it looks like others have found him and I'm too cheap to pay much more than 50 cents a figure. I'll have to lie in wait until next time - in the meantime I have plenty of Minfigs to be getting on with.

From MattT, A couple of conversions. VBCW

Converted a couple of models for this weeks post.

The first one was really simple but i am very happy with the result. Its a pulp figures sailor with a simple arm swap from a warlord plastic frame. I think the final figure has a Steve McQueen vibe to him.

Also converted the Warlord BUF mortar. Its a model that i love, but it looked a bit too facist. One model had a head swap, the loader was a bit more involved where i just keep his arms. Doner parts came from the Pulp Figures Savage Seas range. This range has been a real gold mine for me and provided the spotter and ammo carrier.

Group shot

Stay Safe, Matt.

From TamsinP: 28mm Wars Of The Roses Mounted Men At Arms

I told you that you wouldn't have long to wait for my next batch of figures and here they are - some tin cans on tin cans. Admittedly i did suggest that I might post these yesterday, but I decided to finish painting the next batch before doing the final stages of basing on these.

The ALDG list allows up to one base of "Royal Bodyguards" (elite heavy knights) and two bases of "Mounted Men at Arms (heavy knights). As mentioned in my previous post, I have enough figures for two standard or three small armies so have done two bases for each, although there's nothing to say that the "Royal Bodyguards" bases can't be fielded as "Mounted Men at Arms". Besides, I had enough figures to do four bases!


Royal Bodyguards:

Mounted Men At Arms:

The remaining elements - the Currours (heavy cavalry) and commanders - are now on bases and may even be ready to post tomorrow, but Friday is perhaps more realistic. Or I might split them over two posts, one tomorrow and one on Friday.