Franco-Prussian War

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lovely work.

Thought the canteens  on the back of the pack were steel?

[Hertsblue]

Superb, Javier. The embroidery on the backs of the jackets is so well done. 

[Javier Gomez]

Lovely work.

Thought the canteens  on the back of the pack were steel?

Yes, I always saw the water canteen on the waist as blue grey and the food canteen at the back pack as white metal

[Steve J]

You can never miss the Zouves on the table with their great uniforms . Excellent work once again.

[Javier Gomez]

Javier i simply cannot get over how well you did those 10mm. You make me regret not going for a better standard in my Russians 

To be honest, once in the table all would look more or less the same... I think it's the terrain and maybe the flags that makes the difference.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My mistake. Zoomed in and it's the tassels on the packless zouaves that I mostook for a mispainted canteen. 

[Leman]

Well I had a good look and couldn't spot the packless zouaves. Must get my 10mm up to this so I can fight some small actions. Trying out some different base siases today to see which are most effective/suitable - 40x25, 30x20 and 25x25. Really want to use these figures with FOB2, so the massive scfraps will be in 6mm. will report back my findings and decision.

[cameronian]

Its beautiful work but I agree with the artist (Javier), in 10mm, especially at my age when the eyes aren't quite as sharp as they used to be, its all a bit pointless. IMHO the effect of 10mm is best achieved ensemble; nice figures cleanly painted and well based, on a terrain board on which you have spent at least as much time as you have on your figures. Bruce Weigle is a good example of achieving a superb effect using the ensemble approach; his 6mm figures are clean but basic, the effect is achieved using beautiful terrain. I accept its not always possible to do this for club games but perhaps we should start thinking of the board as being at least as important as the figures themselves. I'm currently working on a simple system using acrylic fleece and poster paint to see if better than average terrain can be achieved quickly and cheaply, expect reports of same when I finally find out where my neighbour's JCB cut the underground power line to my garage/workshop !!

[Javier Gomez]

Its beautiful work but I agree with the artist (Javier), in 10mm, especially at my age when the eyes aren't quite as sharp as they used to be, its all a bit pointless. IMHO the effect of 10mm is best achieved ensemble; nice figures cleanly painted and well based, on a terrain board on which you have spent at least as much time as you have on your figures. Bruce Weigle is a good example of achieving a superb effect using the ensemble approach; his 6mm figures are clean but basic, the effect is achieved using beautiful terrain. I accept its not always possible to do this for club games but perhaps we should start thinking of the board as being at least as important as the figures themselves. I'm currently working on a simple system using acrylic fleece and poster paint to see if better than average terrain can be achieved quickly and cheaply, expect reports of same when I finally find out where my neighbour's JCB cut the underground power line to my garage/workshop !!

Yeah, definitely nice terrain and buildings are a must. We are lucky to have a very talented terrain builder here in Spain, google En Cobertura to find a sample of his work. He sells a wide variety of tiles and textured mats plus modular scenics (hills, rivers, roads, etc.). The terrain of the Beaumont pics is by him, we bought for the club a few years ago.

[Leman]

I tried acrylic fleece with sprayed acrylic paint and was pleasantly surprised at how effective it looked. I agree that terrain is an important part of the visual impact of a miniatures game (otherwise get the board games out) and try and put some effort into this, even on a club night. As mentioned above I wanted to try out some bases for fighting the smaller actions using rules such as Black Powder, On To Richmond (variant Nach Paris) and especially Field of Battle 2. I have settled on 40x25, with around 10 infantry figures per base, around 4 cavalry and one or two gun models on 40x40. In my experiment, below, I tested 40x25 with 25x25. Will put one or two extra figures on the bigger base.

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[Leman]

Try again

[cameronian]

The redoubt is fantastic, from the siege of Paris? Do you have any photos of fleece terrain, I'm interested to see what other people do. The idea of the poster paint was to make it washable and therefore reusable.

[Javier Gomez]

I tried acrylic fleece with sprayed acrylic paint and was pleasantly surprised at how effective it looked. I agree that terrain is an important part of the visual impact of a miniatures game (otherwise get the board games out) and try and put some effort into this, even on a club night. As mentioned above I wanted to try out some bases for fighting the smaller actions using rules such as Black Powder, On To Richmond (variant Nach Paris) and especially Field of Battle 2. I have settled on 40x25, with around 10 infantry figures per base, around 4 cavalry and one or two gun models on 40x40. In my experiment, below, I tested 40x25 with 25x25. Will put one or two extra figures on the bigger base.

[imghttp://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Figurephotos2011/FPWphotos10mm/IMG_1411_zps27772afc.jpg[[/img]

I would love to see pics of the terrain too!

[Womble67]

Very nice

Take care

Andy

[Leman]