Charge of the Light Brigade

Got back to re-basing my 15mm Peter Laing Crimean War , in a spurt of activity I got the entire Light Brigade done and Cardigan as their Brigadier .

Sorry for the rather sub-standard photos but the afternoon sun was streaming into the wargames room window and I had to shut the blind and turn the light on which has done strange things to the photos !.

The Lancer figure must be one of my all time favourite wargames figures.

In the background Lord Raglan surveys the troops (probably muttering about 'putting them in a band box' ) . Must take a better photo of him and staff . I find photographing 15mm far harder than 28mm +.

 The buildings are some I  handmade over 30 years ago (!)

First British Crimea rebased

The first off the British infantry re based - 55th Regt. leading and the 30th Regt in the rear .

Took a bit of fiddling about to get the bases to look right and I ended up using ready mix filler to finish the bases after the problems with Basetex .

I also got a base of Russian High Command done , these are Minifigs 15mm

More re-basing completed

Got some more re basing done , this time it is 4 battalions of the Dniepier infantry regiment

With these finished it means I've got about 50% of my Russian infantry done . Think it is time to do some British and as my Basetex is giving out I will have to use ready mix wall filler and see how that does .

More figures based

On holiday today - no not on strike , just getting my time in before the end of the month. Got some more Russian infantry based sat out in the sun on the patio. Think I will have to alter my basing medium - the Basetex I  have is rather runny and have tried adding more sand but this does not seem to help, it is very difficult to place around the figures bases . Will get this batch done using it and then try my old standby - ready mix Polyfilla . Think I will rebase some British infantry next and see how they look , pictures soon !

A new -old project

Been rebasing my ancient Peter Laing Crimean armies - well got a start at least !.

4 Battalions of the Azov infantry regiment

I must have had these figures for 30+ years, painted hundreds in about 1 year . Each infantry Battalion has 44 figures in it and if my memory serves me correctly I have in total 17 Battalions ! , that's (pauses to find calculator on computer) - 748 Russian infantry - bloody hell ! I must have been really keen in those days  , mind they were only about 5p each then . Not to everybody's taste , but in my eyes they had a certain style and after all these years - rebased don't look to bad . I must have about 450 + British infantry plus cavalry and guns all of which need rebasing so this may take some time . Have used several sets of rules over the years and with this revamp may try out Black Powder with them .