Friday 27 July 2018

Real life gets in the way again.

The attempt to reduce theead mountain has resumed. I have finished all my 28mm plastic Normans, which I have painted in a yellow and red colour scheme. This represents the County of Glamorgan and so this can be the Norman troops of the Fitzwilliam family.
I've also painter most of the 20mm Imaginations figures and want to get them all out on the table before I do anymore. I have around 200 American militia to paint. All the regular troops have been 12 on a 100x40 base, but I might base these 6 -8 on the same sized base to represent the looser formation one would expect from militia. The big choice is whether to make them a militia for one of my two existing armies or to create a third   nation. I am tending towards the latter, and using some Napoleonic troops say Spanish or Dutch Belgian to represent the few Regular battalions, whilst the bulk of the army is made up of militia, similar to most USA armies before WW1.

I bought some Bretonnians on ebay, a really good deal for 100 archers for less than £30. They will go with some foot knights and perry plastics to make up a couple of WOTR retinues for Dragon Rampant.