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 26 July 2021

Voluntaires de Bykli, Part 1

 There are 24 Eureka Miniatures in the unit I'm currently painting, the Voluntaires de Bykli. If you remember they were a gift from Aly Morrison at a seemingly distant Partizan. As it will be a while until they are completed I thought you might like a sneak preview of those I've completed to date ~

I continued with the light blue faced yellow scheme for them, which I'd previously used on Alphonse de Bykli and my French mercenary cavalry commander in Typoo Bhyka's army. The figures are mostly the ragged versions of Eureka's French Revolutionary infantry so I've tried to vary other colours on the figures where appropriate. When I've completed them I'll be sure to feature them in another blog post, only half way through for now though! 

That will bring me to the last planned unit in my original purchases, being 9 Tribal Cavalry from Perry Miniatures' Victoria's Little Wars range. Once they are completed I will be due a rest from the sub continent and will be delving into the Lead Pimple for something different for a break!

18 comments:

  1. Nice if even only half finished, I like the combination of the mounted officer something I have started to include as an option in some of my ACW units although I have made them optional👍

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    1. The mounted officer made up the number so it saved two figures.

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  2. Nice Eureka figures and an attractive colour scheme.

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  3. These chaps look lovely David…
    It’s a really attractive colour combination…
    It does appear that Alphonse is too mean to buy fresh uniforms for his men…😁

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Alphonse is as tight as a duck's derriere! Glad you like the effort though!

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    1. Thank you Jonathan, much appreciated, though it's 'colour' this side of the pond😁

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  5. Very nice work once again David and always good to see the odd mounted command figures here and there:)

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    1. Thanks SteveJ, though the mounted figure saved two foot figures.

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  6. Great combination of colours David, a veritable cornucopia of revolutionary goodness.

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  7. Lovely looking regiment David!

    Christopher

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  8. Beautiful miniatures and thoughtful brushwork has brought out this unit. Looking forward to seeing the remainder of the unit when completed. Aly is a lovely chap to pass these miniatures onto you.

    Cheers,
    Helen

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