My Wargaming Week, 20th March 2016

Another week and another blog post. It seems this plan to put up a post each weekend is working so far this year!

I have painted a couple of small units this week and finally based a larger one.

First of the small units are the foot component of the 16th light dragoons. 

I have included the horse as I had two of the officer/pointing figures, so turning one into a horse-holder worked well. Not a new idea as he had previously been doing the same but in a green coat since about 2004. Seven of the figures were painted from scratch and two are over-paints of earlier work.

The faces look a bit basic this close-up but on the table they look fine and frankly I'm worrying a little less about some of the fine details as the years go by.

Next, I finally finished basing the Queen's Rangers (1777 appearance - see earlier post) on the third attempt. The light company are on split-bases so they can be more easily fielded in a skirmish formation. This unit looks almost napoleonic with its attached flank companies.

 Lastly for today is a unit of the 2nd Light Dragoons. These are the one-piece castings by Perry Miniatures and they are OK, but some of the horses had been a bit squished in the packaging and took some straightening out as their front legs had collapsed. I never did get the light brown one quite right. The painting on the horses came out quite well though, with a couple of washes (mixed from GW washed with a little paint added) and highlighting with multiple layers of diluted paint.

I have also been working on the latest iteration of my rules, all as part of the build up to my game at Partizan in May.