ECW project - For King and Parliament

[Noktu]

Pierre, these look great! The basing is spot on to promote the miniatures.

[mmcv]

A fierce looking bunch! Lovely work.

[paulr]

Finished painting the Gordon Horse

Touch ups, wash, final dry brush and figure bases to do

[pierre the shy]

Pierre, these look great! The basing is spot on to promote the miniatures.

A fierce looking bunch! Lovely work.

Yes I am very pleased with how these guys turned out, the tussock clumps work really well   Paul talked about the painting technique he used for them a few posts up the thread. 

Finished painting the Gordon Horse

Blimey better get on with sorting out bases, labels etc for the Gordons then....time for some command figures next....using a mix of ECW and LOA range mounted generals for these along with highland officers for MacColla's and couple of other highland colonels to lead the highland foot. 

[pierre the shy]

Well I now know more about Gordon heraldry than I did before....Made up cornets for the Gordon Horse troops (they are all going to be small units in FK&P terms) using various Gordon coats-of-arms since one of the source books I have (Steve Ede-Borrett's Flags of the ECW Vol 2) says that at least one Royalist unit carried a cornet with heraldic arms of Invine of Drum on it so others my also have used them...good enough for me 

Bases and labels done too.

     

[paulr]

Figures done, ready for Pierre the Shy to collect tomorrow before our game

Officers and artillery crews undercoated

[paulr]

Officer's horses base coated

[pierre the shy]

Six troops of Gordon Horse based, just need to flock/clump the bases and add the cornets to the command stands to complete them.

[paulr]

Officer's horses dry brushed

Officers horse's white marking added

[pierre the shy]

Flocked bases and added some gamer grass tufts......I'm counting these guys as good quality Swedish Horse under FK&P since the Gordon Horse seemed to best their Covenanter cavalry opposition every time they met, but each unit is only of troop strength (small units in FK&P terms - if they take one hit they are removed). 

At Kilsyth, Montrose's largest battle, he had around 600 horse in total, so 6 troop sized units is appropriate. They will be led by Lord George Gordon and Viscount Aboyne, both of whom were impetuous enough to be classed as gallant gentlemen. 

I use an Epson inkjet to print my flags but ran out of one lot of ink so they will have to wait till I get to the local stationary warehouse for a replacement.

[paulr]

Officer's horses manes, tails & hooves done

Armour base coated and dry brushed

[paulr]

Buff coats base coated

[pierre the shy]

Fighting trial Indian Mutiny V&B wing scale battles are pretty quick then? 

[paulr]

I need to scrounge some cardboard for the trial armies
I should get some this evening from our regular gaming host, I'll also see what the guys think of the idea

Buff coats dry brushed

Started base coating jackets

[pierre the shy]

I finished the 6 troops of Gordon Horse by adding the cornets to the flagpoles (with a short brass rod extension to the flagpole in a couple of cases).

As these are only troop sized units (small units in FK&P terms) and I needed 4 extra stands to properly complete the rear ranks of the two Covenanter Dutch Horse bodyguards (Leven's and Argyll's) I decided to depict Lord George Gordon's and Aboyne's troops with 3 stands but to drop the others to 2 stands. There were enough suitable pistol armed figures in the mix I had to make the back rank of the bodyguards look fairly convincing.....while all the troopers would be armoured to some degree I doubt all of them would be fully equipped with "lobster" 3/4 plate so I have the front rank in plate and the rear in mainly steel helms and some body armour.

I will take a few pictures when I have the chance.

On to artillery and command stands next.....and progressing some other projects.