December 2019 Painting Tally

3 x 15th C mounted men at arms (24 models)
1 x WotR household (20 models)
Ajax (1 model)
1 x French Napoleonic Line Infantry Regiment (24 models)

Month Total: 69
Year Total: 878

2019 Plans - What Happened?

Lets have a look at what was planned and how they matched up:

1. My terrain project for the year will be a graveyard.

Well, I bought assembled and undercoated one, but started inking it and then paused. Wouldn't take a lot to finish it, but theres no call for this to be on the table in the near future. I do have an idea for it though!

2. Mordheim 20th birthday game

Did the scenario, put the feelers out, got stuff ready.............but Mordheim is as good as dead amongst my lot, so didn't go anywhere. Oh well.

3. Children of Pan project

Did the research, but didn't get onto buying the stuff. The game I was going to use them for has had some thought and mutated, so its still on the agenda at some point.

4. Keep working on my historical stuff, as I fancy.

Fuck yeah, no problems there.

5. New painting style

Yep. Can switch in and out of this as needed and pretty happy that its come off as I hoped it would

6. Get my ephemera in order.

Yep. No more carrying a load of stuff that never gets used, its all tidied up into a small box and pared back to just red/black/bone colours.

7. Get rid of some of the crap and clutter that builds up.

Yep. By binning, charity shopping, building and painting, by giving to friends. Loads of unused stuff went this year. Of course, I bought a load of new stuff too, but thats how things work!

What Happened To An Old Model

Following up on this previous post, I sat down for 10 minutes after deciding what to do - let it not remain in stasis, lets attack the bastard with a paintbrush!

Painting over work that was painstakingly done previously? I dismiss that concern with a gesture!

End result:

Started with tidying the face up a little, adding a large area of mixed colour on that shoulder pad and then going for the forced shading and smudging paint around to finish.

Much better and much less Miss Priss than before, I reckon. Most enjoyable. I'll probably go through the rest of the (unpainted) minis I have to match this one and do them in between army units.

Battle of Naseby - Battle Report

Naseby - a fairly straightforward ruck, really, as its a classic line up and have at each other.

Royalists put all of their cavalry on their left flank, with the infantry lined up across the rest of the table. Parliament went for cavalry on both flanks, infantry slightly more weighted to their left


Deployment and battle lines

The cavalry on both sides begins jostling for position, before Cromwell initiates a charge, the Cavaliers countercharge THEN find themselves charged in the flank by a second regiment of horse. A gigantic ruck ensues, which would see the cavalry battering each other all game on that side of the
field.

Meanwhile, the rest of the armies on both sides advance and begin trading shots. One unit crosses the hedge to engage Okeys Dragoons and makes short work of them

 More Ironsides push through the ranks to get at the enemy

Royalists brace themselves for the charge

On the other side of the table, the rest of the cavalry scrap it out, whilst Rupert calls them forward

Royalist centre advances

Parliament cavalry threatens shotte, but can't get near enough due to the pikes

Cromwell finally sees off Rupert, who gallops off table in pursuit of baggage and such

Lone unit of Cavalier horse, left getting shot to crap

Lines begin to close, whilst things heat up

Both sides advance in the mist

Once cleared, lines are quickly restored but an almighty fight breaks out between the infantry on the Parliament left

Ironsides take an absolute battering and break

Charles and his guard oversee the centre. Its not looking good though.

Rupert returns and gets an absolute fucking kicking for his trouble. Even Cromwell himself got stuck into this one

Superb Royalist rolling.

Charles finds his centre getting flanked and those puritan chaps getting rather close.

Whilst on the Royalist right, Parliament begins to break through.

The killer blow - the Eastern Association smashes across the rear of the Royalist force, who find themselves in dire straits and are forced to retreat. 

Then there is a breakthrough on the other flank from Parliament and its all over.

Big win to Parliament. Ironsides are NAILS, absolutely took every charge they received, fought back, kept it together and rallied for the end phase. Ruperts aggression played against him there.

ECW - Baggage, Limbers, Camp

Getting through the last parts of the ECW pile now. Various bits and pieces, hurriedly bashed out to get them done and dusted.

Big baggage wagon? 25 mins from beginning to end - fast!

Gun limbers. Bit of a pain to build, but add a lot of character and niceness to the look of the table

This fellow having his leg sawn off - been waiting in the painting queue for about 5 years now

As has this chap, leading the mules and such

Lastly, a galloper gun. Put it onto two bases, mainly for ease of painting over anything else.

And with that............ECW 100% painted. No more models kicking about in a pile, in stray boxes or elsewhere. Unless I buy something else, of course.