Ashtonski Battery

Wanting to add something to my Crimean War project for the Roosians , but unable to face the prospect of thirtyish figures to unit completion, I opted to paint two Warlord Games 12lb Roosian guns and crew next. As I mentioned previously they were part of the large package gifted me at the outset of the project by friend Colin Ashton, after whom the battery has been named. As I had ordered two Orthodox priests from TAG I utilized the second one by adding Father Rasputin to the gun's base in the act of blessing their efforts in the coming battle. Not much more I can say about them other than the gunners' cap bands really are now beyond the limitations of my hand and eye but I did my best ~

The next unit to have it's time under the brush is the 2nd Battalion, the 1st, the Royal Scots, to add to my truncated Highland Division. These are all Great War Miniatures figures, which I almost feel I could paint in my sleep now! {That arch bounder 'Black Bottle Bill' would probably tell you I do!} After that it should be the third Roosian Jaeger battalion; oh joy, oh rapture!