Four Musketeers

These are called "The Squire's Men" on the Bloody Miniatures website;

The idea here is that they are the retainers of some local magnate who have been called upon to defend their master's property. Therefore, it seemed logical to me to give them a matching livery theme and green seemed perfect. To make an even stronger link, I have given them yellow trimmings on their clothes too.

Obviously, as gamekeepers and suchlike, these men might be considered as expert shots and I like the way that they are posed. My favourite is the kneeling chap with feathers in his hat.

I have four more figures to post, and I will get them up on the blog tomorrow.

More good news from Bloody Miniatures too. The next tranche of 16 figures is now available on their website. Collectively, they are called "A Parcel of Rogues", but the four sets of figures can also be bought separately,

Once more unto the breach dear friends .......................................

 .......... well, sort of. 

More of my Bloody Miniatures 17th century figures. These are called The Storming Party. From left to right we have a trooper carrying a barrel of gunpowder, another trooper wrapped with a long length of rope and a grapple, carrying a pick-axe and a pistol, a heavily-armoured guy to hold off defenders and a grenadier with an axe. They are definitely going to be trouble for someone.

Finally getting back to my 17th century skirmishers

Yes, at last I am finishing off my second set of Bloody Miniatures figures.

This second set of 16 is collectively known as A Company Of Wolves and these four are called "The Moss Troopers".

The website describes these four as;

"A rapacious gang of brigands, freebooters, broken men, or discharged and destitute soldiers turned to banditry and ambuscades.

Hard-bitten irreconcilables for whom the war never ended - like the notorious Doones of Badgworthy Vale. This disreputable crew are attired in Dutch coats and boots, their hair worn long under broad brimmed hats. They’re well armed with pistols, swords and carbines."

I really love these guys, their poses are terrific and their long Dutch coats have a nice distinctive look too.

I started blocking in the base colours on these figures before Christmas but I packed them away safely and only got round to them recently because I had a lot of 15mm things that jumped the queue. I got seriously fed up with painting 15mm figures and it was a pleasant change to go back to bigger things to work on.

I have another 12 figures to finish off and hopefully I'll be posting them throughout the week.

Far East Project - part four

Here is my final post for a while for this project.

Once again, these are all Peter Pig 15mm figures, mainly from the 8th Army range, apart from the radio operator with the FOO (on the left) and the sniper on the right. Those two are both later war figures, but in neither case does it really matter. They look fine as they have been painted and based. The Vickers MMG team is all standard troops.

These will all be support options for the basic platoon force. The sniper was wrapped in a small piece of butter muslin soaked in PVA glue before undercoating. You can just about see that he is wearing a cap comforter.

For this earlier period, I still have a couple of Universal Carriers to do, together with crews, which will also have dismounted figures. One will be a standard Bren carrier and the other will have a 2" mortar. 

I also have the figures for a later war platoon and supports dressed in the JG uniform which began to be introduced in 1943 and more widely adopted the year after. I am planning to paint these troops as Gurkha Rifles with a British officer. I haven't even based these up yet, so they will have to wait for a while.