ECW project - For King and Parliament

[paulr]

Finished painting and touch ups on the current batch last night
Washed before I left for work this morning

Hedge batches:

• 2 flocked
• 2 clump foliage soaked in dilute PVA
• 1 base edges beveled
• 1 started painting

[paulr]

Final dry brush and figure bases done last night on the current batch
Should be based before my game this evening

Hedge batches:

• 2 flocked and flock touched up
• 2 flocked
• 1 clump foliage soaked in dilute PVA
• 1 clump foliage added
• 1 bases cut and glued

Deployment maps for Cheriton finailased with the kind assistance of Simon Miller and Andrew, much appreciated gents

[paulr]

Current batch based yesterday afternoon, flock touched up this morning

Hedge batches:

• 4 flocked and flock touched up
• 1 clump foliage soaked in dilute PVA
• 1 clump foliage added
• 2 bases cut and glued

Cloud, drizzle and/or showers forecast for the next 10 days
Not looking promising for varnishing

A big thank you to MAgamer for his mention of pizza boxes
I've currently filled 4 with 6mm figures and vehicles to free up draw space for the output of this project
I've also got 4 pizza boxes of hedges and another 2 to come

[paulr]

Flags added to two of the units of the current batch and edges touched up
When I went to cut out the flags for the third unit I realised I had made one of them with the wrong device Piles Wavy rather than Cinquefoils
I've corrected the flag and will reprint and add tomorrow

Hedge batches:

• 4 flocked and flock touched up
• 1 clump foliage dry brushed
• 1 clump foliage soaked in dilute PVA
• 4 bases cut and glued

[pierre the shy]

Scots reinforcements dispatched from PM HQ today......

And they arrived in the mailbox today 

that completes all the ECW figures that I need......for now 

[Techno]

11 posts from Paul since the last photo's....There must be some arriving soon. (Hint, hint. )

Cheers - Phil

[pierre the shy]

11 posts from Paul since the last photo's....There must be some arriving soon. (Hint, hint. )

Cheers - Phil

Paul is putting a lot of effort into the Cheriton refight....I'm sure the end result will be worth the wait 

[Techno]

It always is, Peter !!

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Corrected flags added to Sir Edward Stradling's Regiment, both standards now have Cinquefoils
Edges done on those standards

I've just checked the forecast and no varnishing weather in the next 10 days
Hopefully, the showers will clear enough to let me get the 30 hedges and 3 units I have waiting done

I've done 150 hedges, have another 70 hedges at various stages in the process, and 30 waiting to be varnished
So only another 50 to do

[Techno]

No varnishing weather for the next 10 days !!  

Mind you, you certainly wouldn't be able to do any varnishing here for the next few days !
Not only would the figures get very wet.....They'd get blown off the table !

Cheers - Phil.

[paulr]

Weather was better than forecast this afternoon/evening

Two batches of hedges and the current batch of figures varnished

Run out of time for piccies tonight

Making good progress progressing multiple batches of hedges

[paulr]

As the weather was again better than forecast as soon as I got home from work I grabbed some piccies just before the sun got too low

Sir Edward Stradling's Regiment of Foot





Duke of York's Regiment of Foot





Sir Marmaduke Rawdon's Regiment of Foot





These are the last of the troops I need for Cheriton but not quite the end of this project

Some of you may know that none of these regiments were at the battle of Cheriton, the shot and officers from these units will be used as the Commanded Shot from Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hopton, Sir Allen Apsley and Colonel Matthew Appleyard's regiments

[paulr]

'English' Painted and based
1,129 Foot
    424 Mounted
      15 Guns
1,568 Total

[Techno]

TERRIFIC !!, Paul ! 

Cheers - Phil

[jambo1]

Very impressive!!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb

[d_Guy]

As always so very well done! Inspires me to do another reorg of my mountains of lead!

[Steve J]

Wonderful work yet again .

[Terry37]

Paul, as always, looking great!!!

I did notice one of the flags developed a wrinkled crease when trying to add the motion - a problem I have encountered more than once. I finally figured a solution and offer just a a  suggestion. Now I take my paper flags and use various sizes of round things (like a pencil, modeling file, straw, etc. ad will roll the flag around it. Then for more folded places I will carefully add additional folding by hand. Seems to work pretty well, and I think is worth the trouble.

Terry

[paulr]

I agree Terry, I use the same technique

Unfortunately the crease developed while trying to 'carefully' add a little more movement late in the process and the glue had dried too much for me to sort it