David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Monday, 28 January 2019

The Geese Take Wing

I recently completed a Command Stand using some superfluous Wargames Foundry figures for my SYW Wild Geese. You may recall that earlier this month I added Regiment 93, de Clare, to my SYW collection to supplement Regiment 92, de Bulkeley. The base consists of a Mounted officer, an officer on foot pointing forward, in my view the least useful of the French Fusileer Command pack, and a Fusileer in a casual marching pose from the French Fusileer Character pack ~

It’s not the most dynamic Command Stand I’ve made, but the poses of the figures in this range are relatively limited. Of the three figures the casual pose of the marching Fusileer is my favourite. It’s a shame they don’t do a pack of eight of him! It would make a delightfully different unit I think.

Next up in the SYW expansion project will be a German Regiment in French service, the Regiment Deux-Ponts. As this is my project I’ve taken the liberty of showing them in the light blue and red uniform and carrying the rather more swish version of their Colours, available from Flags of War. No doubt somewhere a lace freak has had a seizure reading that! My toys! My game! As I’ve said before...
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  1. Steve J.28 January 2019 at 10:19

    I must say I do like that command unit:).

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  2. Independentwargamesgroup28 January 2019 at 11:51

    Lovely stand David. The fusilier marching is very similar to the French Fusilier from Jackdaw Miniatures. Unfortunately I dont know if they are trading anymore. Have you checked out GMB's standard for the Deux Ponts, it is very colourful and bright. Good choice of unit though, I do like my regiment.

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    1. David28 January 2019 at 12:32

      Thanks Robbie. I chose Deux-Ponts after seeing the alternate flag. I've already fin the Colour party and Colonel and am on the first base of Fusiliers now. I liked your rendering of the unit on your blog very much by the way.

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  3. caveadsum147128 January 2019 at 12:47

    Nice characterful command stand, good use of the pointing officer.
    Best Iain

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    1. David28 January 2019 at 23:15

      Thanks Iain. I’ve found the pointing officer a home at last!

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  4. Matt Crump29 January 2019 at 00:05

    Nice work David, always good to point the way to the enemy 🙂

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    1. David29 January 2019 at 01:44

      Thanks Matt. Sadly at present knowing where the enemy are doesn't seem to help!

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  5. George Anderson29 January 2019 at 01:08

    Very posh commander, lovely. Let's hope the Germans appreciate the swish flags and fight better.

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    1. David29 January 2019 at 01:45

      Glad you like them George. As to fighting better, well, fighting at all will be an improvement in my performance of late!

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  6. Phil29 January 2019 at 01:42

    Beautiful command stand!

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  7. Phil Robinson29 January 2019 at 08:01

    Jolly nice piece, looking forward to seeing the Germans finished, looking grand so far.

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    1. David29 January 2019 at 13:37

      Thanks Phil! Two bases of Royal Deux-Ponts completed, third underway. I like the look of them so far.

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  8. Aly Morrison29 January 2019 at 11:16

    A great little command stand David...
    He looks like he is getting bad news... ;-)

    All the best. Aly

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    1. David29 January 2019 at 13:38

      Thanks Aly. Given my performances in January games bad news is inevitable.

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  9. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)30 January 2019 at 16:58

    Very nice little command stand David.

    Christopher

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