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.



Thursday 19 March 2020

War of 1812-15 vignette

I really do dislike having to buy figures nowadays in blisters from many manufacturers, much preferring to choose individual figure combinations to suit how I want a unit or group to look. When the most recent phase of my War of 1812-15 expansion project had finished I had quite a few figures from the Foundry range left over. Some of these I utilised in making more skirmisher base markers and a few I used in additional Command bases, but that still left five figures to use up. My solution was to marry them up with a spare horse from another collection, albeit from a later period, to produce a vignette base. Anyway, see what you think ~

Apart from the two remaining units of US Infantry in the tombstone shako I still have some American and Anglo-Canadian command figures left over. I'll keep them for now as the US figures give me the option for a further Militia unit, while the Anglo-Canadian figures will let me create an alternate command base for my de Watteville regiment converting them to British infantry. But that lies somewhere in the future for now. Older folk like me may soon have more painting time than we want I expect...

18 comments:

  1. Very nice David and a great way to use up spare figures. Luckily Pendraken (10mm I'm afraid) allow you to order single figures for a small premium, which is great. I wish more manufacturers did this.

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  2. Nice looking command stand, your not going to be the only one with more painting time!
    Best Iain

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  3. Nice job, I have several figures now on the tray to see me through as long as it doesn't last more than two weeks.

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  4. Lovely vignette, cracking job David!

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  5. Turned out nice again, neat job Sir.

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  6. An excellent use of ‘spare’ figures David.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly, waste not want not I think.

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  7. Nice job on some fine "Table Dressing"!

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  8. Totally agree about blisters...I was bemoaning their introduction by Foundy in the nineties just today on someone's blog! You have made nice use of the left over figures nonetheless

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    1. Glad to read I'm not the only one thinking like this!

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