The Scots Grey Dragoons

As Phil had returned the first six horses painted to my specification in double quick time it was only polite of me to advance their completion, by painting the riders, to the head of the painting queue! To refresh your memory these are my first Warfare Miniatures figures and proved to be almost at the limits of my hand and eye when it came to colouring them in. Not that I'd like to give the wrong impression though: they are sharply sculpted and cleanly cast, in fact the latter is outstanding as no clean up is required at all as Barrie sees to that before posting them out. The figures are posed full of life and movement too, so see what you think ~

The standard is from David Morffit's wonderful blog, 'Not by Appointment', which I make no apology for printing out in larger format as I just liked it! 

The figures come from three of the many available packs: Horse Command; Horse Charging; and Horse Charging Enthusiastically. 

I really like the look of the finished Squadron base using the figures from the three packs, a charge in full flow. They may have been Dragoons, but they participated in charges alongside their Cavalry companions!

I've included this picture of one of the Troopers to give an idea of the quality of the sculpting. The face is beautifully modelled in my opinion and painted up nicely I think.

The officer figure is nicely animated, I especially liked the full wig flowing over his shoulders! The poor effort at picking out his waistcoat buttons though clearly shows the limits of my colouring in! But I know you will cut me some slack there!

Next up for their time under the Brush of Doom are the third British Foot regiment, River's Regiment of Foot, again using Ebor Miniatures figures.  As I didn't buy any figures at The Other Partizan on Sunday I have treated myself to an order for a fourth Foot regiment! More on all that in due course though.