Wednesday 22 August 2012

French Indian Wars - The British Infantry

My French Indian war project is now moving forward at a rapid pace.

The project has three phases:

1.       Source and Paint Figures – sourcing complete and around 50% through painting)
2.       Source or scratchbuild log cabins and other suitable structures, plus fences etc – Grand Manner looks promising but I need to save the pennies
3.       Decide whether I need to build a new table with wooded cliffs, gullies, rivers and farmsteads or do I just slap it all down on the table –

Given that the figure painting is most laborious task I figured I would tackle this first

The intention is to paint around 200+ 28mm figures that represent the various protagonists.

These will include:

British Line Infantry (c 30 figures including officers)
French Line Infantry(c 30 figures including officers)
Rogers Rangers (I went a bit mad here and have ended up with 28 of these guys)
Canadian Militia & Trappers (12)
Native Indians (around 60 figures – these can be used for Huron, Mohawks etc)
Civilians, Militia & Provincials – 30 figures

All the figures have been sourced from Perry Miniatures, Galloping Major, and Redoubt

The following photos illustrate the Redcoats ....more to follow






4 comments:

  1. Very nice project. Please continue.

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  2. Very nice. Have you though of scratch building the log cabins from twigs or dowling

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  3. Very nice careful painting of your troops, Sir.

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  4. Nice work!! Are you painting any regts in particular or are you keeping it fairly generic?

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