My mid-life crises continues...ARMY PAINTER!

So after watching Army Painter Brushes Tufts and Paints Gift Box Reveal from Sword 'n' Steele I went and spent $200 at Mind Games in Melbourne and 20 bucks at Metro Hobbies (where I got the small grass tufts, Mind Games only had 28mm sized ones).

 The Wargames magazine has several articles about the Spanish army and people in the Peninsula war though not much I didn't know already.

The paint is Army Painter, along with the Brushes and ball bearings (which I understand you really need for Army Painter paints) and the wild tufts are made in Spain and look ok for Spain too.

I'm disappointed that Warlord has a Russian and French paint set, but not a British one. The set I've just noticed dosn't have a Green either, so I'll need some more paints for British Riflemen.

21st Portuguese Infantry Regiment painting part 2

 

My painting of the 21st Portuguese Infantry Regiment continues. Got some more colours in, only 4 more base colours to go.

Eureka Miniatures AB British Peninsula figures. When/If I build a full Portuguese division I'll buy the correct Portuguese figures. This brigade will be in a British division.

Citadel Base paints using a Citadel Small Base brush, cleaned in a Citadel water pot and the brush conditioning with conditioner. 

Bases are magnetic ones from Olympic Games. After painting 1/2 of it by just blue tacking them one by one to the Citadel Stand holder, I suddenly thought last night I can use the bases I already have. This made painting the figures 10 times easier.  

View at table distance. You can just see Blue and Yellow.

BATTLE OF FOENTES D'ONOR, Taken from the Right of the Position occupied by the 1.st 3.rd and 7.th Divisions

BATTLE OF FOENTES D'ONOR, / Taken from the Right of the Position occupied by the 1.st 3.rd and 7.th Divisions on the 5.th May 1811 published 10 Oct 1812

Aquatint with etching and engraving; printed on paper; hand coloured; edged with paper | 37.2 x 50.3 cm (image) | RCIN 735155.c

 I shall have to paint my Corps Commander and ADC's like this. From militarymaps.rct.uk.

A view of the baggage train of the Anglo-Portuguese army through the Serra de Estrela in May 1811. Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815): Peninsular War (1808-1814).

A view of the baggage train of the Anglo-Portuguese army through the Serra de Estrela in May 1811. Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815): Peninsular War (1808-1814).

 

 

From George III's Collection of Military Maps collection. This shows the British baggage train 10 days after the battle of Fuentes de Oñoro. I shall have to paint my LOC using these colours!

Play a wargame, Defeat the Nazi WarMachine. Help Save The World.

A Nazi U-Boat Tactic Stumped Allied Forces — Until a Retired British Naval Officer Designed a Game to Reveal How It Worked

Play a wargame, Defeat the Nazi WarMachine. Help Save The World.

His plan was simple. Using the floor as a giant board, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit, or WATU, would design a game that approximated a wolfpack attack on a convoy in the Atlantic. One team would play as the escort commanders, the other as the U-boat captains. They would take turns to make their moves, firing torpedoes, dropping depth charges, the U-boats diving and surfacing to make their attacks, the escort ships wheeling around in great arcs as each side hunted the other.

These games would be based on real battles that occurred at sea to allow participants to see why the escort commanders acted the way that they did, and whether they might have lost fewer convoy ships and sunk more U-boats had they done things differently.

 In one multiverse, this was my calling.

My first Brigade- the 21st Portuguese Infantry Regiment (work in progress, half way through it's base coats)

My first Brigade

The Kingdom of Portugal - flags for regiments

The Kingdom of Portugal - flags for regiments

Flags for the 21st Regiment that I am painting. 
 

Infantry King's Colours

Infantry Regimental Colours