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.



Friday, 12 July 2019

More War of 1812 additions...

... in the shape of an extra US Artillery gun and crew. The crew figures are from Foundry, the gun from Front Rank courtesy of Phil. It looks like this piece is much bigger than it’s Foundry fellows which make up the rest of the American Artillery Park. Although it’s listed as an 8lb gun, against the others it will look more like a 12lber!


I hope to be able to expand the War of 1812 forces again later in the year, but for now I’ve ordered some better flags for the British and Canadian units from Flags of War; some Colonels and ADCs from Perry Miniatures; and lastly, some American generals from Foundry. While I wait for those to arrive I have two Redoubt Enterprises kneeling British infantry to finish for the F&IW. Then I’ve some Front Rank Hessians to expand the unit sizes in my AWI collection. All being well I shall complete those, and more, during the gaming pause. We shall see, as they say.

14 comments:

  1. Very neat, but you could have someone's head off with that. Although, given our record with artillery fire in games perhaps not ;~)

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  2. Another lovely looking unit and for an oft neglected period.

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    1. Thanks Steve J. I feel it’s overshadowed by the European Theatre of operations for most gamers.

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  3. Just starting some artillery tonight, nice crew etc.

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  4. Nice big gun and lovely crew!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain. It's listed as an 8lb gun by Front Rank!

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  5. A fine piece of ordinance David...

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Certainly a big piece any way you look at it!

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  6. Well done, impressive colors and nice job!

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