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 31 December 2020

New Year, New Tier...

 ...New Allied Italian cavalry!  I've actually painted 10 Aventine cavalry since the last but one blog post, all from the bargain purchase from fellow gamer David. I allocated four figures to an extra base of Roman cavalry and six figures to two extra bases of Allied Italian cavalry ~

The Roman element of the Republican army now boasts three bases of heavy cavalry.
The Allied Italian cavalry I've just added. I made use of odd left over LBM shield transfers for these figures rather than order a new sheet. Like most wargamers I'm cheap if it comes to the pinch!

A shot of the whole of the Allied Italian cavalry with their command figure base in the lead.
Finally, the whole collection laid out, before it's put away for the duration...
I think I'll take a break from these, as I've said previously. Firstly I've an Overseer's cabin to finish for plantation settings in ACW and AWI games. Of course it will double as a cabin in other settings just as easily. Until then, Happy New Year!


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34 comments:

  1. Phil1 January 2021 at 00:39

    First class cavalry David...Bonne année!

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  2. Phil Robinson1 January 2021 at 02:34

    More splendid additions to the collection, here's to a new hope this year.

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  3. Steve J.1 January 2021 at 03:47

    Very nice cavalry David and nice to see a pic of them all laid out again:)

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  4. Gonsalvo1 January 2021 at 05:05

    That's gotten to be a nice collection, David, with the new allied Cavalry a fine addition!

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  5. Jonathan Freitag1 January 2021 at 05:36

    Great looking cavalry. Happy New Year!

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 00:00

      Thanks Jonathan, Happy New Year to you too.

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  6. Aly Morrison1 January 2021 at 07:37

    Splendid David...
    You certainly have enough for a decent game... you can always return to them when you realise you need reinforcements.

    All the best. Aly

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  7. Gary1 January 2021 at 09:53

    Excellent cavalry unit. Happy New Year.

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  8. Jonathan White2 January 2021 at 04:09

    Nice to see you've kept them scaled at 2 metres apart ;D

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 13:07

      You know me, always doing as I'm told😉 Day off or tea break?

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    2. Jonathan White3 January 2021 at 10:21

      Day off. In fact 2nd day off. I know!

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    3. David3 January 2021 at 14:32

      Two days off? What are things coming to?

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    4. Jonathan White3 January 2021 at 17:11

      3 days off coming up ....

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    5. David3 January 2021 at 23:32

      Three days off in one go? You'll get bored!

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    6. Jonathan White4 January 2021 at 05:22

      I have parcels coming ;-)

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    7. David6 January 2021 at 03:58

      Best of luck with the parcels!

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  9. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)2 January 2021 at 04:39

    Looking good David and Happy New Year!

    Christopher

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  10. George Anderson2 January 2021 at 06:15

    Lovely as ever David, Happy New Year.

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 13:08

      Very kind George! Hope your lum is reekin' as it should!

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  11. Bartek Zynda2 January 2021 at 08:23

    Amazing, we want more! Happy New Year!

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 13:09

      I shall endeavour to oblige! Happy New Year!

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  12. Independentwargamesgroup2 January 2021 at 10:55

    Its a lovely army David and you should be very proud of it. Hopefully we will bump into each other at some show in the near future.

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 13:10

      Thanks Robbie! Very kind of you. I too hope we shall meet at a show later this year!

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  13. rross2 January 2021 at 11:27

    Happy New Year David and I hope you get to put these two wonderful armies to proper use in a face to face game very soon.

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    1. David2 January 2021 at 13:10

      Thank you rross! Games? I've almost forgotten what they are like...😉

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  14. James Fisher3 January 2021 at 05:22

    Magnificent. The whole army arrayed, what a fine achievement!
    Regards, James

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