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  • Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Hi Bandit,

    The Austrians were the exception to the rule.  Their converged grenadier battalions did carry colours.  For most of the period this would have been a spare Ordinarfahne  (the yellow flag) taken from the regimental depot but in 1805, when the grenadiers companies weren’t detached, the grenadiers were the first battalion of the regiment and so carried the white Leibfahne.

    You can find more details here: http://www.warflag.com/napflags/flaghtml/austria.htm

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    It is always nice to find an exception to the rule.  It makes me want to paint up this battalion.  They would look really colourful.

    Incidentally, a while ago I was trying to establish which regiment in a combined grenadier battalion would provide the colour party and I wasn’t able to find any definitive answer.  Do you have any thoughts on the matter?

    Initially, I thought it would be provided by the senior regiment numerically (ie. the lower-numbered regiment). Now, however, I am inclined to think it would be the colonel’s regiment that would carry the standard (and so form up in the centre in the case of a battalion formed of three regiments).

    in reply to: Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada #56283
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Hi Mark,

    That’s a great-looking unit.  I love the round hats.  I agree about the name of the regiment but my favourite has to be the Lower Canada Sedentary Militia – not a name that is ever likely to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy.

    Stephen

     

    in reply to: 1st Regiment of Foot #56282
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Another very nice looking regiment.  I look forward to seeing the British forces grow.  Are you planning to do all of them in numerical order?

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Hi Bandit,

    I also thought that German and Hungarian regiments were not combined in grenadier battalions but I have checked in Enrico Acerbi’s ‘The Austrian Imperial-Royal Army 1805-1809’ and his information for Mayblümel / Locher tallies with what you have found.

    Acerbi’s work is on Napoleon-Series and is available here as a pdf: http://www.centotredicesimo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ACERBI-The-Austrian-Imperial-Army-1805-09.pdf

    If you don’t get an answer here you could try the General de Brigade forum where Dave Hollins posts replies on all matters Austrian.  He has been kind enough to help me on a couple of occasions in the past.

    in reply to: Old School hills #55251
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Polystyrene tiles for me as well.  I also used some stuff which I think was called fibre board, which my dad used to line the roof of the loft. It looked a bit like chip board but it was quite soft.  I think I left it unpainted because it didn’t take paint well.

    in reply to: Russian Infantry Flags of the Napoleonic Wars #55200
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Thanks Jonathan.  It turns out it is a rather lovely-looking book and it appears to be exceptionally well illustrated.  It’s definitely going on the want list.

    in reply to: Russian Infantry Flags of the Napoleonic Wars #55122
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    To be honest I would really only be buying the book to look at the pretty pictures and whilst I know you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover I do think the cover is kind of ugly . . .

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: Crom’s Anvil – 15mm Fantasy #54644
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Sounds like a fun project.  I love those Copplestone barbarians (I wish he would hurry up and add a few more figures to the range).  I’m also a sucker for anything Conan so I look forward to hearing how this turns out.

     

    in reply to: Aragorn vs. Conan #53442
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Conan would rip Aragorn’s arms off and beat him to death with the soggy ends.

     

    in reply to: Company-specific forums #52162
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    No worries.  Anyway, maybe it will encourage me to give their rules a try.

    in reply to: New Forum? #52135
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Would this be a separate forum from TWW?  If so, then sure, why not. But I would rather TWW itself stuck to wargaming.

    If you have an ‘eye candy’ scale model forum how long before it gets bombarded with pictures of semi-naked, improbably-proportioned fantasy women posted by guys who claim they are only admiring the skill of the sculptor at capturing the female form or that they only look at them to learn techniques for painting flesh tones?

    Or am I being too cynical?

     

     

    in reply to: Not FrancoPrussian #51605
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I didn’t realise the Stadden figures were as finely detailed as that. They really are very nice sculpts.  I’ve just looked them up on the Tradition of London website and I think it is fair to say that your paint jobs are rather superior to theirs.  Maybe you should offer your services?

    in reply to: Not FrancoPrussian #51585
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Count Belisarius, I love the look of your imaginations figures.  They really are beautifully painted. The two officers in particular are exceptionally well done.

    in reply to: Ral Partha Europe Orcses… #51582
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I use PayPal when I order from them, which means you don’t have to create an account if you don’t want to.  And if you check out their privacy notice they do say that your financial details are only stored for long enough to process the order and they don’t store full details on the server: http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/privacy.html

    in reply to: Not FrancoPrussian #51525
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I haven’t tried it but I do occasionally toy with the idea of doing 19th century imaginations with armies painted in the style of the soldier on the old Quality Street tins or turning the Franco-Prussian War into the start of World War One so all of Europe is involved but everyone is still in colourful uniforms and waving flags.

    in reply to: Does ESR "look Napoleonic"? #51443
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    To be honest I think the only thing that makes this (or any other wargame) look Napoleonic is the fact that you are using Napoleonic troops. Unless you are using tanks pretty much all wargames look the same. With my eyesight the third picture down could be Romans v Carthaginians.

    Probably the only things that visually say ‘Napoleonic’ to me are squares and skirmish lines.

    in reply to: Instructions for Miniature Assembly #51401
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I’ve got a Minifigs Old West stagecoach kit that I have never been able to put together because I didn’t come with any instructions and I can’t tell how to fit the springs (in fact I’m not even sure how much of the piece in question is spring and how much is sprue).

    If anyone knows how to put this together I’d be very happy to hear from them:

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Not Connard for the win.  Congratulations you win a prize of your choice (which you will have to purchase and pay for yourself)

    The picture is on the Minifigs website to illustrate item 1CE a 15mm Colonial Mule Wagon.  http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=2&CategoryID=13&SubCategoryID=88

    They seem to have decided that it will help sales if they leave most of the parts out of the picture and put it together to look like a grav sled for their old 1970s science fiction range.

    This is what it should look like:

    The above image is from the Keep Wargaming site where they manage to produce clear images and detailed descriptions of every model they sell.  http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Keep-and-WRG/_i.html?rt=nc&_sid=96142197&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14&_sop=10&_sc=1

    Why are Minifigs going out of their way to make their stuff look crap?  Is it a new marketing technique?

     

     

     

    in reply to: Neuchatel Battalion, what figures? #49748
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    They are similar in style to the 30mm Tradition and Willie figures sold by Tradition of London: Tradition of London 

    However, I’ve never seen the figures in the flesh so I’m not sure whether their ’30mm’ is a match for your figures.

    in reply to: Clangers #49510
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    And yet I can’t help but feel Oliver Postgate might be turning in his grave . . .

    I know, but hopefully he’d approve of the home made nature of them. It does actually bother me a little, to be honest.

    I’m sure he would approve of their home-made nature – and the fact you have done such a lovely job on them. And thinking about it I’m pretty sure Noggin the Nog carried a sword.

    in reply to: Clangers #49492
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I love them.  And yet I can’t help but feel Oliver Postgate might be turning in his grave . . .

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I really enjoyed your AAR and I think the broken-up and crowded terrain really adds to the look of it.

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Thanks William.  I will check them out.

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Thanks Zippy,

    I’ll stick to the frock coats and waistcoats for the early encounters and use the figures in rifle shirts for other units.

    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Thanks Zippy,

    Much appreciated.  I think I will put these guys back into the lead pile and concentrate on doing some more regular types before I branch off into painting up troops for the more obscure battles.

    Can I also pick your brains on clothing worn by the Patriots at Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill.  As I understand it they would all have been in civilian dress (apart from the occasional old soldier who turned up in his regimentals).  However, I was wondering whether hunting shirts would be classed a civilian dress in this context or should I stick to guys in frock coats, waistcoats and shirtsleeves?

    Thanks also for the advice on the Ospreys.  I will start looking out for them on eBay (I generally find you can pick up most titles pretty cheaply there).

    in reply to: 3mm 6mm 10mm 15mm SAW figures #48555
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Once you are down to 6mm and smaller then ‘paint conversions’ should work very well.   For example, you could try Heroics and Ros, who make very nicely proportioned small 6mm figures (I say ‘small’ because they are considerably smaller than Adler and Baccus).  Using a combination of their ACW, Colonial and WWI ranges I think you would be able to create everything you need. http://www.heroicsandros.co.uk/heroics/pdf/webcat.pdf

    in reply to: Do team riders use spurs? #48528
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I don’t know whether the wearing of spurs by team riders was universal but in the Napoleonic Wars the British Royal Artillery drivers do appear to have worn them.  In C.E. Franklin’s British Napoleonic Field Artillery he says that in the field the drivers wore “ankle-length boots with boxed, swan-necked spurs”. (Mind you I have no idea what a “boxed, swan-necked spur” looked like). Similarly, according to Lucien Rousselot, Napoleon’s Army 1790-1815,  soldiers of the artillery train wore soft riding boots, similar to those of dragoons, initially with detachable spurs but from 1812 with spurs fixed to the heels.

    in reply to: Maryland Brigade 1781 #47975
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Those Flag Dude flags really do look the part. You really do get the feeling of the wind rippling through them.  I use GMB for my Napoleonics and they are little works of art but I haven’t quite mastered the technique of getting that much movement in them.  As you say $5 each is pretty reasonable when you consider the amount of work that must go into each one.

    in reply to: French Artillery – required reading;-) #47914
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    As a Napoleonics player I feel a vague sense of guilt about how little attention I pay to artillery.  I’ve bought books on the subject but I have never actually read any of them and when the experts start debating the advantages of one system over another I’m afraid my eyes start to glaze over.

    in reply to: 6mm Scale Sumerians #47913
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    The water effect is just flexible filler, shaped with a steel sculpting tool, painted dark blue, heavily drybrushed with a lighter blue, lightly drybrushed with turquoise and finally the wave crests picked out in white, matt varnish for the whole thing then a coat of gloss varnish for copper helmets, bronze spear points and the water. Takes longer to describe than the water did to paint.

    Thanks Mike,

    It looks really good.  It gives the water a really nice glassy effect.

    in reply to: 6mm Scale Sumerians #47855
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Two lots of Sumerian Battlecarts in a week!  The Wargames Website is finally taking off.! Love them donkey carts.

    Mike I love your stuff. The city looks really cool. You seem a bit apologetic about your warship but I think it looks great.  What is the technique for the water effect?

    in reply to: Maryland Brigade 1781 #47743
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Another couple of very nice looking units.  So far I have opted for one flag for my American units but I like the idea of using more.  (I’m not too clear about grand division flags and what they were used for so I’m on the look out for a copy of Standards and Colors of the American Revolution in the hope that it will explain it all).  Whose flags do you use?  They look really good.  I’m about to put an order in to GMB but there aren’t any illustrations on the website so I’m not sure what the designs will look like.

    in reply to: Help me fend off the French menace! #47741
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    The old Blandford uniform guides might be useful to you in your project.  One with the snappy title “Cavalry Uniforms of Britain and the Commonwealth including other Mounted Troops” written by Robert & Christopher Wilkinson-Latham and illustrated by Jack Cassin-Scott includes plates illustrating the uniforms of such stalwart bodies of men as the South Salopian Yeomanry in 1842 and the Taplow Lancers in 1870. There are a couple of companion books on infantry uniforms by the same authors but I don’t have those so I don’t know whether they cover the more esoteric elements of the British army.

    in reply to: Rather unusual Imagi-Nations #47670
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Never mind the cavalry, wait till you see my Sumerian battlecarts

    Now that’s a line you don’t hear everyday.

     

     

    in reply to: Rather unusual Imagi-Nations #47667
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    They look like Michael Bentines Potty Time figures!

    That was exactly my reaction.  I used to love the figures in Potty Time and these little guys look great. Can’t wait to see the cavalry!

    in reply to: 15mm 2nd gen Minifigs: ACW, ECW, Napoleonic #47611
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Hi Andy,

    I haven’t had much luck so far.  I’m afraid I don’t have a great deal to trade (I think the only thing I have a real surplus of are kneeling dismounted cavalry in slouch hats, which possibly aren’t the most useful figures in the world).  However, if there is anything specific you need drop me a line and I’ll be happy to do an exchange if I’ve got the figures you are looking for.  You can contact me at stephenprentice at aol dot com

    Best wishes

    Stephen

    in reply to: Webster's Brigade 1780 #47280
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Yes, I think a match case would be a bit hard to see (even assuming I was capable of painting one!).

    in reply to: Webster's Brigade 1780 #47230
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    That’s interesting stuff about the hat caps.  They look like they were the precursors to a light infantry cap illustrated in Haythornthwaite’s ‘Uniforms of the French Revolutionary Wars’ (plate 63, Officer, Light Company, 34th Foot c.1800).  This shows a similarly shaped cap with a transverse plume (Haythornthwaite speculates on whether it is fur or feather). The big difference is that these later caps are made of leather and have an additional upright plume.

    For me the good news is that  in 15mm Minifigs make a figure wearing this type of cap in their French Revolution range so I might be able to do an acceptable paint conversion to make flank companies for my own Brigade of Guards.

    Apart from the LI on the front of the Light Infantry caps was there any difference between the uniforms of the grenadier and light companies?

    in reply to: Napoleonic Unit Frontages #47222
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    Thanks Bandit,

    They sound like reasonable assumptions to me.   I was basically trying to justify to myself using wider bases for my guns so I could fit more crewmen on each base (I don’t worry about sticking to the figure ratio when it comes to artillerymen).  I may end up compromising and making them a little bit wider and a little bit deeper.

    Thanks for taking the time to work it out.

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