Command and Colors Napoleonics: Corunna

I rarely photograph the games I host, I just can't get organized to bring a camera and frankly, would rather not be messing around with one one a game night. So instead I took this opportunity to take some shots of my 1/72 Command and Colors game of the Corunna scenario from the box game. I am pleased with the terrain, which includes a brand new 4" Hotz Command mat, JR Miniatures 6mm rivers, terrainmaker hill hexes, and nice 4" hex resin villages that I picked up in the last club auction. (Each is a single piece, they were a real chore to paint!).

This looks like a fun scenario, French attacking the British rearguard during Moore's retreat from Portugal in 1809. British muskets in tough terrain behind a river, the French will need to draw a good hand to have a decent crack at it, I reckon. But CC:N often surprises me. One of my favorite all time games, I must say.

And finishing with the obligatory cat photo, this time fat Charley squeezing under the cupboard where a warm air vent gently heats his backside.

WW2 Valiant

I painted a handful of Valiant 1/72 GIs for a change. I really like these models, too bad they don't mix with anything else in either size or proportion. That wouldn't be a problem if Valiant did a complete range, but so far they only have late war Western Front covered. Booh.

Thinking of out of scale, oversized figures....

Does my butt look big in this?

Big and Small

 I finished the German forces for a WW2 scenario "Buron" which will pit the 12SS versus Canadians (North Nova Scotia Highlanders) in Normandy. The vehicles are GHQ and I used Adler infantry which are quite good. I will likely run a game using FFT3 at the club next week.

 

I also painted a box of 54mm Austrians between vehicles (see here, a 1/285 Sdkfz at the feet of 1/32 Austrian grenadiers - looks like Tonka toy) as part of trade with one of the guys at the club.

They were quite refreshing to paint after a few weeks of 1/72 and smaller. Great models.

GNW Swedes complete!

I just finished the last couple of regiments for my 1/72 GNW Swedish army for Maurice. Here are two regiments of foot (Strelets) with 3 artillery batteries (Zvezda):

My good friend Mark Wall found the flags on a blog by a fella named Wayne Turner  (http://www.khanage.net.nz/page1.php). Thank you Wayne, these are fantastic!

And the centerpiece, the commander in chief Charles XII himself, carried on a litter due to a foot injury. What a great model, Strelets again:

DBA Ancient Britons

I finished a Corvus Belli DBA army this week, this one has been on my to-do list for about 2 years. These are great figs, even though they take a lot of clean-up due to flash. I look forward to playing these guys one day, I love the combination of warband and mounted. Suits my play style.

I also completed another Swedish regiment for GNW Maurice, this is getting close, just another regiment of foot or two, some arty and Charles himself then it's done.

Microarmour

Well, a new addiction has started. After selling off some projects that had not seen the light of day for a few years, I splurged on some GHQ microarmour. I bought some from my chum Kevin and the rest from the Sentrybox- close to 40 blisters in all - focusing on late war Italy and NW Europe. Here are the first few stands of Shermans with a few Stuarts, Fireflys and M-10s in the mix.

On the workbench now are also a 15mm Ancient British DBA armies and 1/72 GNW Swedes. Not enough free hours in the day!

Some Picoarmor

Between painting Swedish regiments for the Great Northern War Maurice project, I dug into my 3mm (1/600) picoarmor to put together a few extra bits to fill out a scenario for the next game night. This stuff is just lovely, shame I am such a lousy photographer (not that I am much of painter either..). I did a battalion of Crusaders, terrain, some air support (Hurricanes and CR.42s) and a few Italian support units.