English Civil War part 2

Good Morning Folks

Part 1 of this project can be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/ecw-new-shed-project.html

Not too much to report at present, the weather is too cold to venture into the Shed (and it so desperately needs a clear out and tidy up) so I have been focussing on putting together my English Civil War army.

On Saturday I had the opportunity to assemble the first of the King and Country box sets mentioned in the previous post. The figures are relatively straight forward to assemble but they do take time.

Once glued I stuck all the infantry onto 25mm m4 washers and the cavalry onto 2.5 x 5cm plasticard bases. The washers were then given a quick coat of paint (I find pva glue adheres better to a primed base). All the bases were then given a sand and ballast treatment.

These were left overnight to dry and on sunday morning I sprayed them up all grey primer. With the weather so cold I had brought the spray paint in over night so this was room temperature as were the figures. The spraying itself was done outside but I allowed these to dry in the kitchen. Much to the annoyance of the family who complained I was trying to poison them with paint fumes !

So the Army starts to take shape...

I am still waiting on the rest of the box sets to arrive but a quick analysis of what has been bought shows that the cost of a Plastic Army is relatively good value.

In summary I have bought a total of 288 figures (of which 60 are cavalry) for the princely sum of £181 which works out at about 63p per figure. By comparison a metal army of equivalent size would cost double if not triple this sum.

Unit	For King & Country	For King & Country	Battalia Box Set	Cavalry Box Set
Pike	16	16	24		56
Musket	36	36	48		120
Firelocks	12	12	10		34
Command	6	6	6		18
Cavalry	12	12	24	12	60
Total Figures	82	82	112	12	288
Source	Warlord Games website	Ebay	Ebay	Ebay
Cost (inc postage)	£70	£44	£49	£18	£181
Total Cost /Figure	85p	54p	44p	£1.50	63p

The plan is to assemble all of these boxes before the serious painting starts.

I still need to purchase some artillery support and then determine what other gaps exist in this force?

I reckon I can use some of the firelock infantry as dismounted dragoons so just need some unmanned horses - bound to be able to get cheap ones on the ebay site.

Until next time

part 3 of this project can be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/english-civil-war-part-3.html