British foot artillery

 

This week I finished off the first of the artillery bases for the British. I do like the uniforms for the British artillery crew - very smart looking (and hopefully no glaring painting errors on my part...)

I was tempted to go with the a light grey for the timbers, or even the light blue-grey that you often see people use, but settled on a mid grey in the end, with just a hint of blue to it. For the guns themselves I used Foundry's 'Bronze Barrel' B and C, with a watered down wash in between of Nuln Oil. Those metallics are now my favourite for painting cannons.

I'll add more foot artillery in time, and I have some horse artillery waiting in the painting queue, but I think I'll switch over to painting more infantry next. And of course I need to get a game in at some point!

KGL 1st Light Dragoons

 

I managed to get the first of the light cavalry units finished off this week for my Anglo-allied army. These are British light dragoon figures from Newline Designs painted as the KGL 1st regiment.

I have one other pack of these in the lead pile at the moment, and it's tempting to paint them as the KGL 2nd regiment since both units saw action during the 100 Days campaign, but I may go with one of their British counterparts instead and add the other KGL unit at a later date.

Next up will be one or two artillery bases I think. That should give me enough to give the British their first proper run out on the table with a small game.

British 2nd Dragoons - Royal Scots Greys

 

I have a bit more spare time on my hands at the moment, so there's no excuse not to dig into the lead pile and add some more units to my British Napoleonic army. First up is the Scots Greys.

I've settled on 8-figure cavalry units these days, but may extend these out to 12 figures to match units that I painted earlier in the project. 12 figures (6 bases) do look great on the table, but 8 figures are fine and work well for games like Shadow of the Eagles and Neil Thomas' Napoleonic Wargaming.

These were good fun to paint - a solid couple of days' work, but worth the time put in. I didn't go for much variation on the horses, and held back from adding certain uniform details, but all in all I'm happy enough with how they turned out. The grey horses will certainly stand out nicely on the table.

A unit of light dragoons is next in the painting queue, and I'll see where my fancy takes me after that.