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A peaceful hamlet in an unnamed valley.
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Terrain was a combination of Willy's mat from the Terrain Guy along with the road by an unknown manufacturer and selected pieces from my collection. Recognize the huts? Those were the medieval/dark age huts I scratch built for our future Viking campaign from an earlier post: http://thehistoricalminiaturist.blogspot.com/2011/04/viking-housing-development.html. Carpet tiles were used for the plowed fields along with my scratch built haystacks. The wooden kegs were acquired from the wood working section of my local craft store (i.e. Michael's, Hobby Lobby).
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| They have smaller scale barrels that are perfect for 28mm and very cost effective and easy to paint. We're talking $4 for a package of 9 wooden barrels. Wooden fence sections come prepainted from Pegasus Hobbies. |
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| Objective: Loot the Village! |
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| Red Coat opening shot of the day. "That should keep those Frogs' heads down. Come on in Frenchy!"  |
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| Keeping the Frogs at bay. |
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| Fire fight from Red Coat perspective: Frogs taking cover by the ale barrels. "Hold your fire, Perkins! If you put a hole in 'em barrels, it'll be your hide!!" |
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| And across the field, the fire fight from the Frog perspective. |
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| Impetuous bayonet charge by my Red Coat is successful. |
The Red Coats won that day but barely. The bad news: 70% casualties. The good news: survivors don't need to share the ale!
Lovely stuff - really like the barrels too!
ReplyDeleteOnce again our interests collide - we are going to do some Nappy skirmishing using the "Sharpe's Practice" rules by Too Fat Lardies in a few week
Good stuff, good barrels, nice eye candy.
ReplyDeleteGreat Batrep. Superb terrain and nice to see the huts in action again.
ReplyDeletethanks, gents.
ReplyDelete@paul - right ya are, mate. we seem to be in gaming synch. willy's the nappie fanatic and u should see his 6mm collection! also sharpe's practice is a great set of rules that we've used from time to time. cheers n happy gaming!
Very good! I have been thinking along similar lines with my 28mm Perry ACW chaps...hmmm ;)
ReplyDeleteI like the finer details. The barrels were a nice touch.
ReplyDeletegreat looking terrain - looks like a good battle
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog while I was browsing the internet for websites related to Commercial carpet. Your topic interest me as I am a big fan of miniatures. I've always dreamed of making one for my kids. They like the Polar Express inspired miniature.
ReplyDeletethanx all for the comments.
ReplyDelete@scarlet: welcome to the world of miniature wargaming! your serendipitous research has led you to a crazy, visual world that i'll hope you'll enjoy. there's a lot of us out there (as you'll soon discovered if you haven't already) that covers every aspect of military historical periods not to mention fantasy and scifi. good luck with your project.