Author: lorenzoseventh
Wargaming in an erratic style
This time of the year you can encounter fully armed Vikings strolling through the city of York even picking up their Cornish pasties at Cooplands the bakers (I missed that pic opportunity).
Quickly following on from breaking my duck in the analogue hobbies painting challenge I submitted these fine horsemen.
Now Modena was a small duchy in 1848 and the Dragoons were both mounted and a foot based part of the ducal army.
In fact the mounted arm stretched to just a few squadrons.
That was fine with me – I just had to have some sky blue cavalry in my collection.
The miniatures are Irregular (now based in Kingston upon Hull). They are easy to paint and have the detail I want for gaming.
My AHPC15 entry is here http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/from-john-b-friday-crew-1848-modena.html?m=1
Back to the paint table as they say.
My first entry into the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge No15 were figures left over from last years challenge. They were primed but that was it.
So having a LIMBO section in this years theme of the Divine Comedy by Dante was most helpful.
The figures were Hat 1806 Prussian Hussars repurposed as 1848 Prussian Hussars. Fortunately the Prussians in 1848 were going going all new with frock coats and pickelhaubes but also retro with flugelmutzes!
You can read the entry here
http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/from-john-b-friday-crew-1848-8th.html
This year I have got off to a slow start with AHPC15 and Dave Stones Paint What You Got challenge is well challenging me.
hey ho.
Next up for my Painting Portrait is another Paint What You Got effort, this time it’s the 4th line who differ only from the 7th line in their facings – yellow for the 4th with white metal buttons while the 7th sport pink with yellow metal buttons.
Painting Portrait 25a details the scenery.
My mid nineteenth century units are four 40mm square bases coated with pva and budgie grit followed by a three colour paint job – burnt sienna then heavy dry brush yellow ochre finally light dry brush a yellow white to highlight.
Peco railway scenic grass is the final addition. I tend to match the base greenery to the uniform colour accepting my armies are mixed based.
This is my first contribution to this winters “paint what you got” by Dave Stone. Last year I managed to get going by 7th January so it’s even slower progress this year.
Anyway this post also marks the switch to “painting portraits” after the demise of the “painting pedestal” before Christmas – it has a nice new home – just not mine.
The portrait approach should enable me to show scenery as and when it appears.
First up then are 7th line infantry of Bavaria who were sent on behalf of the north German federation to fight in support of the Schleswig Holstein rebels against the Danes.
The 1848 war was a victory for the Danes.
The figures are in fact Newline 20mm Prussian Napoleonic Landwehr. I simply trimmed the hat top and used some liquid green stuff to mask the officers coat long tails.
I must say these figures were a pleasure to paint and I really like the colours I chose in the end. This makes it all the more surprising in that I actually primed these figures back in March 2023!
The building is total battle miniatures bought ready painted – still my favourite piece – it no longer features as the range has changed. I think it was from their 15mm range or old 25mm one now they advertise only 28mm or 15mm.
The trees are mainly S&A Scenics by Lancashire Games. Again some of my favourite off the shelf pieces.
Finally I tend not to do flags straight away so came up with a furled flag option using some black tubing and a ball topped pin head.
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Intermission 25a
Experimenting in 2D
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Happy 2025
Goodbye 2024
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Slow work in progress
Well AHPC15 has started but I have been very slow out of the traps.
I have made a start with some irregular miniatures that arrived very promptly in the Christmas post.
They are Neapolitan Dragoons circa 1860, but I took a punt on them for my 1848 Tuscany Dragoons.
Ok so they have some incorrect details – I can live with that.
I did manage some model prep for AHPC15 as well. Not sure when/if they will make an appearance.
For AHPC15 you need points on the board in January. The Tuscan dragoons will remain my focus.
Dave Stones “paint what you got” is all about clearing off what you have already. And that’s a rich vein for me.
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Intermission 24f
The Wargaming Erratic 