Natal Native Contingent.

First of all, thanks for all the interest in my last post and this blog in general. You have made me a happy blogger.

Today we have a couple of pictures of NNC. These are again mainly old style Foundry figures with European NCO's from the Perry Mafeking range and the Mounted and dismounted officer figures are Boers from the excellent Empress Miniatures.

Here are some more Perry figures from there Mafeking range and the mounted figure is Nogs the reporter from Chelmsford's command pack, Empress Miniatures. These will be used as European Officers and NCO's for future NNC units.

Zulu's

Happy New Year to you all.

Here as promised are some new pictures for the start of the New Year.

There are over 400 Zulu's in 7 Regiments. They are mostly the old style Wargames Foundry figures, with 30 plastic Wargames Factory and  about 30 Black Tree figures. The Black Tree figures are probably a little big in comparison with the other figures but I have stuck them in the rear ranks so they don't really notice. There is also a mounted command stand from Empress Miniatures and these figures are really superb.

I have finished the terrain for Rorke's Drift ( Redoubt Enterprise) with a little conversion work added, and also wanted to paint a good amount of Zulu's before I started on the British.

I have painted a few British, mostly old style Foundry with a few head swaps from Empress. I have purchased the complete range of Empress Miniatures excellent Zulu War British and Volunteers and have started painting these ( saving the best until last).

I plan on doing a photo shoot of the Battle of Rorke's Drift  (See the link on my photo shoot of the Battle of Bunker Hill) when I have enough figures to do the defenders on a 1 to 1 ratio. I then hope to do the same thing with the Battle of Isandlwana, obviously not on a 1 to 1 ratio. These will be in future entries on the blog.

I will be bringing my Zulu's along to my good friend Dave Marks place on the 21st January. To give you an idea of the size of his wargame room(s),  we will be playing on tables covering a total length of 55 feet and my 400 Zulu's will just be a very small part of the huge amount of Zulu's that Dave will be fielding. I will bring my camera along to this and will share with you the game in a future entry on the blog. You will be able to see Dave's gaming room in April's Wargames Illustrated where he did a big ACW game using the Black Powder rules, this event was attended by the editor of WI along with the author of Black Powder.

  The last picture shows the iNdlondo regiment on the left (red and white shields) and uMbonambi regiment on the right.

I have finished a couple of units of NNC along with their Europeon officers and nco's and will post these in my next blog along with some details on my basing.   

Mercenaries from War of the Roses

War of the Roses Mercenaries from the Perry's plastic box set.

Napoleonics

Here are a few pictures from my Napoleonic collection. I am unable to find the majority of my photo's so I will take some more in the New Year which will include French Infantry, Heavy and Light Cavalry and some Artillery.

These are all from Perry, the British Line are from the plastic box set including the flags. The 95th Riflemen are also plastic apart from the command which are metal and come from the Perry Dutch/Belgium Naps. At the time of painting these, the Perry's hadn't brought out command figures for the 95th but now they have and they are on my lead pile waiting to be painted.

There are also a couple of conversions amongst the 95th, I have used plastic arms and a bare head from the French plastic box set.     

I have a lot more Napoleonics primed and waiting to be painted but it all depends on what grabs my attention at the time, at the moment I am heavily into painting Empress Miniatures British for the Zulu wars.

Next up will be Perry plastic Mercenaries from their War of the Roses range.

Merry Christmas to you all and thanks for visiting this blog.

War of the Roses

My first batch of WotR using Perry's plasic figures with metal mounted command.

Robin Hood and his Merry Men

I had a few unpainted Lord of the Rings characters spare and unpainted which I thought would be ideal to use for Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Scale wise, these fit in well with Perry or Foundry HYW figures. Some of the pictures also include Perry plastic War of the Roses bowmen.
I just need a suitable Little John figure now.