I am not sure you can have an expansion of a project that has not actually started yet, but if you can, then this is it!
As I awaited the arrival of my recently ordered Ebor GNW Russian infantry, I remembered a few days ago that our occasional gaming buddy from up north in Whangārei, Adrian, purchased a Warlord Black Powder Marlborough's Wars starter box set a couple of years back, but was distinctly unimpressed by the contents. I dropped him an email enquiring after the said figures and offering a financial inducement, and lo and behold, a few days later, a small carton turned up containing enough plastic figures for four units of infantry (in the 18 figure units that go with Beneath the Lilli Banners) plus four squadrons of horse (the latter were a bonus I was not expecting!)
With a whole weekend of miserable weather forecast, I decided the first unit out of the blocks would be this one (uniform details courtesy of https://www.tacitus.nu/gnw/armies/russia/infantry.htm
Here are the results, with which I am pretty happy.
Officer
Ensign minus his flag
Drummer
The pikemen were converted by carving off the musket form the Warlord marching figure and replacing it with some spare pikes left over from the Ebor Swedes I did a couple of years back.
Ensign with Colonels colour now in hand.
NCO
The five infantrymen who will go on a six figure stand with the NCO
Below are the final six figures I finished off Sunday evening - another three standard infantrymen, plus three grenadiers in tall mitre caps
All eighteen figures are now based on three 60mm x 60mm stands and I should get them finished tomorrow. Meanwhile, another eighteen figures have been assembled with the intention of doing this unit next:
Thats all my news for this post - thanks for your visit!
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Nice conversion and brushwork. A preamble to the Ebor contingent? Certainly when mounted the regiments will look serviceable on the table. Good use of a washout weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe, a pretty simple conversion to be fair, made all the easier with being plastic figures!
DeleteVery fancy uniforms there Keith. You’ll need something to keep you occupied if bad weathers setting in. At least you’re going down a related rabbit hole on this one. Lol.
ReplyDeleteCheers JBM. By my standards, that was a pretty full on weekend if oaintinfg, three days to paint and base an eighteen figure regiment...I can't do that very often!
DeleteVery nice and like you say the extra cavalry are a bonus
ReplyDeleteThanks Scotty...the only downside is I now have to paint the bstrds!
DeleteGreat addition to the GNW project! May I give some friendly advice, Keith? I hope this will not cause as many emotions as last time... Officers' scarves in the Russian army were three-colored - white, blue, red in the colors of the national flag. Sincerely...
ReplyDeleteVery helpful suggestion, Valentine!
DeleteThanks Valentine and yes, I noticed in the uniform card that it said this regiments neck scarves were, in fact, white! I will see how hard it would be to repaint them, now that are all handily attached to their bases....
DeleteForgive me, Keith, but we are not talking about neckerchiefs, but about officer scarves worn around the waist or over the shoulder.
DeleteAh, right....thanks for that clarification Valentine.....I just guessed with the colour the officers sashes should be! I will do some more research...did the three colours run the length of the material, or across it, do you know? In other words, on the figures, if the sash is worn around the waist, would there be a single line of red right around the waist, then a line of white and then a line of blue...or would it be red/blue/white top to bottom, repeated several times (hope this makes sense, I know what I man but its hard to put into words!)
DeleteHey, don't worry about this, I found the answer via some Google images....but thanks for the tip, Valentine!
DeleteThe colors of the Russian flag are horizontal stripes - white on top, then blue and red on the bottom. They go along the entire length of the officer's sash. It is not necessary to draw straight lines - the sash was twisted when dressing. Sincerely.
DeleteThanks for confirming Valentine, I will be fixing up the officers tomorrow evening :)
DeleteThis is some fine brushwork, Keith. The red/green combination is a good one.
ReplyDeleteThe warlord figures make excellent rank and file - I have a Marburian Bavarian army which is mostly these figs with a few casting room officers . I've also used the open handed arms and the torso/legs to do pikemen for my 1680's stuff. And also taken some of the pike arms from their pike and shot range sprue to make some pikemen at the charge.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stuart, I agree, I really quite like these figures. Our mate Mark of 1866 and All That blog also built up a Bavarian WSS army using the same figures. The one thing I think would have improved them would be two or three slightly different marching poses, like the later Napoleonic Portuguese set, for example, but that's a minor complaint. Of course, they ere not originally a Warlord product, so they are not quite the same production concept.
DeleteGreat work sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal!
DeleteLovely work Keith. Looking at those sprues it seems to me you will need a few rainy weekends to stick the rest of those figures together.
ReplyDeleteYou might be surprised Lawrence...two of four units are assembled....I won't do the third till the second is nearing painting completion!
DeleteKeith, I think all projects get early expansions :-) Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteHaha....thanks Norm!
DeleteExcellent job Keith.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard 😊
DeleteVery nice indeed Keith…
ReplyDeleteA good choice of colours…
All the best. Aly
Cheers Aly... I have to own up and say, I actually intended to paint the Mosowsk regiment, but when I went back to the illustration (after oaintinfg all eighteen figures) I found that regiment had red stockings rather than green....fortunately, I found the St Petersburg regiment was more or lass as I painted them!
DeleteNice work Keith 👍 those Warlord figures are not the best but they look good painted up.
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, as I say, some variation of the marching pose would be nice, but apart from that, I like them!
DeleteKeith, I think an earlier comment from me may be lingering in your SPAM bucket...
ReplyDeleteOk that's weird Jon...I will check and release...can't do it on my old iPad as the browser isn't supported and I can't access the DESIGN function right now!
Deleteproject creep can certainly happen before the project is complete. 😀
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to give those soldiers a good home.
Thanks Stew...my scope creep occurred before the project even really started, but that's ok!
DeleteVery nice Keith. I'll follow your progress with interest.
ReplyDeleteThanks OB, it will be a few months duration in total, I imagine, but I am looking forward to it!
DeleteLovely work Keith! And the name of the regiment Peterburgski is awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben. As mentioned, the regiments name is a bit of a fluke....they were supposed to be the Moscowski, but I should have painted their stockings red, not green. Instead of fixing up my error, I just found a unit that wore red, faced green, with green stockings!
DeleteLovely work Keith and a good way to make the most of wet weather. Finally here we now have some glorious weather, which means plenty of time in the garden and no time on figures etc. At least the finger is healing nicely but still not usable for painting, modelmaking etc:(.
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve. Nice to have some good weather. How is gardening work with your injury?
DeleteA lot of one handed work Keith, combined with wearing a glove on the injured hand at all times. No surprise that I'm being very careful when using the secateurs!
DeleteYes, a case of being wise after the event but very sensible nonetheless!
DeleteExcellent use of the wargames factory figures, they've come out nicely!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, I think so too.
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