Friday, 14 August 2009

8th Brigade (Kempt)

I finished Kempt's brigade the other day. I have represented this with units of the 79th (Cameron Highlanders) and 28th Foot, along with a skirmish line of the 1/95th Rifles. The actual bigade also included a further batallion, but I'd rather not compromise the look of the base by trying to represent every unit in the brigade. The fence is a Timecast piece, trimmed down.

Next up are the second Guards brigade (Byng's), but at the moment I am rebasing sime Baccus Russians for a fellow gamer at the club who is interested in gaming grand tactical napoleonics too.

cheers

4 comments:

Monty said...

Bloody brilliant, Steve - again! If you get a minute, cast your critical eye on my latest Warlord offerings.
I live in your shadow - AGGHH!

Nice one, all the best,
Monty

Phill Goodman said...

Very impressive work!

Looking at Kempt's brigade, I was wondering how you settled upon using the large square bases that you base your 6mm Napoleonic armies on? They do look very striking, but I was wondering if such a shape wouldn't make it hard for you to play any another set of rules (should you want to)? I personally I am still trying to settle on a rules set/unit presentation and at the moment have it down to Polemos (and your variant) and an American set called Age of Eagles. Any thoughts?
Thanks

Phill G

Steve said...

Hi Phill

The 60mm square is used by Polemos and is a smaller version of the 3" squares used by Grande Armee (and Fast Play GA) and Volley & Bayonet.

My armies are always planned with the aesthetics first and the rules made to fit the basing. I need to have armies that look nice and I want to play games with.

The squares work for me!

cheers

JWH said...

Steve,

More great figures. What do you do for painting the particular 'Highland' bits (kilt/sporran/bearskin/socks/that plaid throw thing the officers wear) on these figures?

Regards