15mm BEF

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[lowlylowlycook]

Stylish.

[Terry37]

Looking very nice indeed - very well done!!!

Terry

[Leman]

Still not 100% happy with them. I think I will go back to the original method I devised for the BEF. Also, I still think the Germans are a little dark and may well lighten the grey further before doing the shade. If that doesn't work I will seriously have to consider commas of light grey as a highlight over the Nuln Oil. On the other hand, I do like the flesh wash and I think the Sepia will work well with brown horses. Next up a British lancer regiment mounted and dismounted with horseholder, mounted and dismounted machine gun and casualty figure to group the 1914 morale markers round.

[Malbork]

Been on Holiday, so belated thanks for the painting details for the (H)(M) MG 

[Leman]

Bit slow off the mark here as I have already produced the first cavalry unit, mounted and dismounted by Peter Pig with mounted HMG and horseholder by TSS. Also first artillery battery (18pdrs - again by PP). will try and get those photoed and posted later.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are rather good Leman.

[Techno]

Lovely stuff, Andy.

Most impressed !

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Like the looks of 'em, Leman. Love the lancers, makes me want to read Forester's "The General" again.

[Steve J]

Very nice work and I love the bamboo look to the lances

[Leman]

TBH Steve I was a bit unsure about the bamboo. The illustration in Osprey's Mons certainly shows them as bamboo, but a rather old ex-library book I have on British cavalry plumps for ash. Having reasonably successfully done the Belgian lancers as bamboo I thought I would stick with it. At the moment I know that German lances and Russian lances were painted black and that the Austrians didn't carry them any longer. The French, however, I still have to seek out.

[paulr]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's nearly 20 years since I did mine, but I'm pretty sure British lances were bamboo...
French lances by 1916 were plain wood, before that, no clue!

[Leman]

Thanks for that Will. I will go for the plain wood for French. I do know that in the FPW the French lances were painted black and the lance pennons were not carried in combat. Pendraken have got that spot-on, unlike some manufacturers. Since I posted I've checked out the Catton-Woodville painting of the charge of the 9th Lancers at Audregnies and again the lances are bamboo, so looks like I made the right decision.

[FierceKitty]

A vignette showing a dozen lions following a donkey into action would be fun.

[Leman]

And we all know Clarke admitted to making that up. The whole Lions and Donkeys thing is very much a product of post-WWI intellectualism written by the kind of people who previously did not go to war, the 1960s with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight and the fact that the generals of all sides were trying to make decisions about a conflict of which they had no prior experience - just one of the many problems caused by rapid technological progress.

[fsn]

1916: You have a largely conscript army, artillery short of shells, no tanks, and an air force largely ineffective at ground attack, no tactical radio.

You face a line of entrenchments from coast to Switzerland, so no flanks.

What do you do?

[Leman]

But the real reason I came on this thread was to post some photos of my first pieces of artillery. These two 18pdrs represent a battery in the 1914 rules and are intended (as in actual fact) to fire over open sights.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Love those guns!

[paulr]